Russia!...Western or Eastern?
by Gregory Feifer
Some Western observers are guility of hypocrisy when criticising Russia.
Anatol Lieven wrote an article in the World Policy Journal condeming Western observers for
using double standards in their criticism of Russia. Foreigners unfairly censure Russia while failing
to acknowledge similar problems in their own countries. To rectify that situation, he says, the Soviet
collapse in general, and the Chechen war in particular must be seen
"in the context of European and North American imperialism, decolonization and neocolonialism."
Hermitage and Guggenheim Museums Combine
By Editor Moscow Times
LAS VEGAS — A pair of museums created by Russia's State Hermitage Museum and New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation will open at the Venetian hotel-casino on Sept. 16.
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Dante Alighieri: A Biography
By R. W. B. LEWIS
As you walk across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence today, you come upon a plaque bearing a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. The lines are spoken by Dante's ancestor Cacciaguida, whom the poet encounters in one of the higher spheres of heaven, among the warrior saints.
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The House on the Embankment
By Sergei Nikitkin
Just whisper the words "Dom na Naberezhnoi," or House on the Embankment, and it is enough for any Muscovite to conjure up images of walls with ears, late night arrests and disappearing Party leaders.
The mammoth structure that sits across the river from the Kremlin has become a symbol of Stalinist repression and terror, yet few remember the man who created the city's most imposing structure of the constructivist period.
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Pushkin: Graced by Collection of Traveling Prince
By Edmund Brown
After more than 70 years, Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has dusted down a unique collection of art, one that represents a depth of commitment to art rarely seen anywhere in the world.
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The Home of Russia's Art Nouveau.
By Sergei Nikitin
Architect Lev Kekushev is one of the era's tragic heroes. His professional career lasted a mere 20 years and coincided with the rise and fall of the 'Modern', the Russian version of Art Nouveau.
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DANTE: The Personal was Political
By Robert Pinsky
GENIUS is enigmatic: in the English language, this truism is reinforced by the bland, oval face of Shakespeare, gazing in silence from behind the poems and plays. Outside of them, he says nothing about his own work or life. He leaves no comment about the city of London, where he chose to live for about 20 years, away from his wife and children, before returning to them (again without extant comment) and his native town of Stratford. That silence has become part of Shakespeare's legend.
In contrast, Dante Alighieri, sometimes described as Shakespeare's one great equal, chose to make himself his protagonist, in his ''Vita Nuova'' and ''Convivio'' as well as in his culminating masterwork, the ''Commedia.'' Dante was a polemicist, a city official, a diplomatic negotiator and a political exile, sentenced to death in his absence.
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