French masterpiece, which goes on show at Moscow’s State Pushkin Museum this month, has only ever left Paris once before

Tsarist-era estate near Moscow joins "red route" for Chinese tourists

Russia’s culture ministry decides against creating giant restoration firm after protest by family of the late Vladimir Sarabyanov, the country’s “Da Vinci”

But the project includes a controversial history exhibition that tries to rehabilitate Stalin’s image

Federal Security Service is investigating several officials and businessmen over missing funds for state-sponsored heritage restoration projects

St Petersburg museum director pledges closer relationship as countries develop tourism links

Plans to send works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' extensive collection to Russia were put on indefinite hold after insurance costs shot up by $1m

Hermitage director reveals "circuitous" route that marble sculpture took from London to St Petersburg to avoid Greek seizure

The Russian institution’s collection of Palmyra artefacts could be used to reconstruct the ancient Syrian city<br>

Mild-mannered but ambitious, he was known for uniting Russia’s increasingly divided art world

Billionaire Bernard Arnault jumps at chance to present art seized by Lenin from Sergei Shchukin

A cheery Pyotr Pavlensky demanded again in the courtroom to be tried as a terrorist for his political performances against the Russian government

Rare Russian icon originally written off as a “ruin” has finally been restored

Removal of artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square has drawn criticism

Chief cultural adviser leaves post shortly after Russian president takes aim at his art and culture council and praises efforts of heritage activists

Collector seeks artists to respond to the events of 1917 and their legacy today in Russia

Works amassed by Sergei Shchukin—once held in Moscow’s State Museum of New Western Art—will be shown together again at the Foundation Louis Vuitton

Crowds come out in force for major loan exhibition dedicated to the Mexican artist at St Petersburg’s Faberge Museum

The Serbsky Center may also host hearings next week in criminal trial against Pyotr Pavlensky

Valentin Serov exhibition is Tretyakov Gallery’s most popular in 50 years

Igor Markin, the founder of Art4.ru, says he wants “to sell brazenly.”

Move comes amid rising tensions over downed Russian fighter jet

Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work

The Russian church and state-sponsored art grow ever closer through concurrent Soviet-themed exhibitions in Moscow

Zurab Tsereteli says he has been approached to design a monument in St Petersburg and will do it for free

Institutions face attacks of vandalism as society becomes more unsettled

Institutions are burgeoning in the face of sanctions and currency devaluation