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Across:

  1. A pioneer in Cubo-futurism during the Russian & Soviet periods of avant-garde experimentalism, she is well known for surreal pieces like “The Pianist” (1914).

  2. She was the sculptor behind the famous statue “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman,” the symbol of Mosfilm.

  3. Best known as the first person ever to complete a spacewalk, Alexei ___ was also an artist who loved portraying his cosmonaut adventures in space through painting.

  4. This jeweler is best known for his creative and decadent eggs.

9. One of the major figures of the Russian revivalist movement, this artist often portrayed Russian legends, such as Ilya Muromets in “Knight at the Crossroads” (1882).

11. This artist is best known for his role in the constructivist movement and contributions to early Soviet propaganda art, as embodied by one of his most famous works, “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” (1920).

12. Known for his meticulous, realistic style, as in his most famous piece “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan” (1885), this Ukrainian artist is one of the most celebrated in all of Russian history.

13. Although this artist’s major works, like “The Swan Princess” (1900), are now displayed in the Tretyakov Gallery, there is a Museum of Fine Arts named after him in his hometown of Omsk.

15. This artist’s piece “Morning in a Pine Forest” is known to all Russians, mainly because it is on the wrapper of the popular chocolate candy “Mishka.”


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1. After spending 6 years in a Vorkuta Gulag camp, this artist designed some of the most recognizable Russian symbols, like the country’s coat of arms.

2. An art theorist and one of the major pioneers of abstract art and suprematism, his thoughts and works still inspire conversations, especially his groundbreaking piece “Black Square” (1923).

3. While best known for his brightly colored paintings, as in “The Merchant’s Wife” (1918), this artist was also heavily involved in theater and designed sets and costumes.

8. This artist is best known for his depictions of Russian legends and folktales, as in his painting of “Vasilisa the Beautiful” (1899).

10. Despite his humble beginning as the illegitimate son of a serf, he became one of the most famous portrait artists in Russia, best known for his portrait of the father of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin (1827).

14. Arguably the most famous icon painter in Russia, his life’s story was immortalized in a film by Tarkovsky in 1966.