Recently I have been researching the background to the Moscow Foundling Home, a place which is destined to play a major role in my current work in progress, ‘In the Shadow of the Flames’ (working title). The action of the novel will be set against the background of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, and […]
Category: Moscow
War games
The Russian army is rightly preoccupying people at present. When preparing for the first live talk I have given for quite a long time, I was trying to find a better image to illustrate Peter the Great’s ‘play regiments’. I came across this bright 17th century woodcut, the illustration from a book. I think the figure […]
Researching the history of the Pushkin Museum
The Pushkin Museum I have been busy this week researching the history of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury will close at the end of October to embark on its £8 million capital project. While it is closed some of its artworks will be travelling to Moscow to feature in an exhibition […]