The V&A show demonstrates how the great 20th-century impulse, in the arts, was for international connection, and what was Diaghilev if not a global manager of wonder, a man who, out of his Russian beginnings, sought forms of wordless magic that could leap over borders and time zones and native conventions?
Russian history from its beginnings to our own time is characterized by continuous foreign military assaults, particularly from the west...
Koolhaas, himself an avid swimmer, satirises the utopian beginnings of Russian constructivism and its slow morph into corporate American modernism with his usual intellect, idealism and rancour.
The first thing I remember about Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight is that it was built like a Russian doll, with three beginnings and six endings.
There are more whites moving to West Harlem (although there are fewer whites in the district as a whole since 1990), the vestiges of a Cuban population and the beginnings of a Russian colony.
If the first part of the show depicts the noble beginnings of the Russian empire and the middle section its decline into blind narcissism, the final few objects show today's Russia in its search for direction.
His first language was not Russian and his ethnic identity and marginal beginnings made him an outsider long before he left Russia for the West.
A huge if corrupted transfer of wealth into private hands "broke the back of the Russian patrimonial state" and allowed the beginnings of a middle class.
In Moscow alone, hundreds of thousands of Russians have lost their jobs.In this section Word perfected As winter draws in Hardly wired Eurekia Look out In Dow Jones's locker Dodgy business ReprintsThe vast majority of Russian households drew little benefit from the beginnings of a normal-looking economy.
Even more serious, from the tsar's point of view, was the spread of nihilistic doctrines among Russian youth, producing radical leaflets, secret societies, and the beginnings of a revolutionary movement.
It's all a rather long ways from more prosaic beginnings at UCLA, where two products of the Russian Jewish diaspora, Waxman and Howard Berman, met as undergraduates in the Bruin Democrats.
