Culture
Reign of Alexander I
Reign of Nicholas I
No literature captures the essence of Nicholaevan Russia as effectively as Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” – the story of a bureaucrat who awakes one morning to discover that his nose has left his face and developed a life of its own. Moreo
ver, The Nose has a higher social rank than Kovalev!
Reign of Alexander II:
This painting evokes the so-called “Bulgarian Horrors” and how public opinion pressed him to go to war with the Ottoman Empire in 1876.
Reign of Nicholas II
“A man lies dead at the end of a Russian film.”
This is a clip from the movie “Children of the Age,” starring Tsarist Russia’s most popular actress, Vera Kholodnaia. In this clip she is raped by her husband’s boss, but nonetheless leaves her husband for him, taking their baby with her.