From Russia

"The rich tradition of French painting was an important influence on Russian art from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, a period which saw the rise of many of the most important movements in modern art. A visual record of an unprecedented event, this book - the catalogue of an ambitious exhibition of master paintings from the four greatest museums of Russia - examines the interaction of these two great cultures." "Drawing on the collections of the State Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, the authors consider outstanding examples of Salon painting Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism in France, and related movements in Russia, among them The Wanderers, Constructivism and Suprematism."--Jacket.