Antonina W. Bouis

Illustrations and text follow the story of a six-room Moscow apartment throughout the twentieth century and the family living there, as their personal upheavals and accomplishments reflect events in Russia and the wider world.

A young Russian named Kirill is the sole survivor of a once numerous clan of German origin. His ancestor, Balthasar Schwerdt, migrated to the Russian Empire in the 1830s, bringing with him the practice of alternative medicine and becoming captive to an erratic nobleman. Kirill investigates why none of the German's nine children or their descendants could escape their adoptive country's cruel fate. Intent on uncovering buried mysteries, he searches...

This exhibition celebrates the historic moment in the history of modern art when Kazimir Malevich debuted his new non-objective paintings under the banner of Suprematism and Vladimir Tatlin introduced his revolutionary counter-relief sculptures. They were bitter rivals and diametrically opposed in their creative thinking, so when an exhibition in which their new works appeared, entitled '0,10: The Last Futurist Exhibition of Painting' and organized...