Ms. Gubaidulina explored religion and mysticism in avant-garde compositions inspired by poetry, ancient texts and her ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided on March 10 to revive a claim by a family over an heirloom, an impressionist painting that had ...

Sofia Gubaidulina’s work, with its thorniness and religious themes, put her at odds with the Soviet government.

Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, ...

Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the ...

Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one ...

During the Cold War, the United States waged a war of ideas with the Soviet Union to capture the hearts and minds of the rest of the world. It was in many ...

At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back decades. After his loss, Spassky went home to a cold reception ...

“Nonconformist art,” as it came to be known ... on free Georgian identity and the subjectivity of the local environment. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of profound ...

Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, died on Thursday in Moscow.