Rome is a Russian workshop. Essays on the colony of Russian artists of the 1830-1850s

The book is devoted to the creative and social problems of the interaction of domestic culture with the European Center for Arts. It summarizes the long -term research experience of authors in the study of biographies of Russian artists of the first half of the 19th century related to Italy. In the essays collected in thematic chapters, the living specifics of creative destinies and situations, recreated by archival and literary sources, reveals the details of the general picture of the artistic environment and correlates with the cultural processes of time. The vastness and variegation of the material involved prompts to correlate the proposed facts, events and documentary evidence with other, previously known or differently meaningful information related to the Russian colony in Rome, whose history causes invariable interest of professionals and art lovers