Category: Russian Roads

Travellers’ Tales

Post author By Jennifer Antill
Post date August 12, 2022
Categories In Russian Roads, Small acts of Kindness, Travel, talks

Two weeks ago, I was very pleased to be invited to speak at the CamRuSS Russian/Ukrainian summer school held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. I devoted part of my talk to looking at the sources I used when researching my novel, Small Acts of Kindness, A Tale of the First Russian Revolution. Being students of Russian […]

Repin Retrospective

Post author By Jenny Antill
Post date March 27, 2019
Categories In Exhibitions, Russian Roads

This year is the 175th anniversary of the birth of the wonderful Russian artist Ilya Repin (1844 to 1930). To celebrate this the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is staging a retrospective exhibition but sadly it will be over before I plan to be in Moscow later this year. Repin’s paintings are amazingly varied. He produced […]