Nestled within The World of Russian Fairy Tales exhibition is another enchanting realm: vintage tree ornaments from Soviet-era Moscow. A hundred ornaments and related artifacts from the late 1930s–1960s are on view at TMORA through January 25, 2026. The displays include a decorated feather tree, a miniature tree from the Khrushchev era, and an armada […] Read more
This exhibition presents twenty-four watercolors by Nadezhda Glazunova. Professionally painted in the style of folk art, these delightful images feature traditional holidays in a Russian village and lifecycle events marking key transitional points in a peasant’s life, such as a wedding or a baptism. Glazunova’s book illustrations are included, as well. The paintings were brought […] Read more
TMORA presents forty paintings created by two Novosibirsk artists at the end of the Soviet epoch. Not a lot of art reaches the Western Hemisphere from Siberia. This remarkable collection was brought to the US by American artist Kevin H. Adams who was invited by the Soviet government to tour Russia in 1989 with an […] Read more
The World of Russian Fairy Tales explores the rich traditions of old Russian fairy tales, preserved for centuries through folk art and storytelling. Colorfully painted on lacquer boxes and nesting dolls, presented in children’s books and modeled as Christmas ornaments, these fairy tales continue to amaze and amuse, and they do more than that: they preserve […] Read more
Natalya Nesterova (1944–2022) is a prominent Soviet and Russian artist whose works are preserved at Russia’s major museums, such as the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Nesterova was born into a cultured family of Moscow architects and graduated from the prestigious Surikov Art Institute, where she studied under […] Read more
