Status Updates From Natasha's Dance: A Cultural...

Stroganov Art School, founded in Moscow in 1860, encouraged artists to work fr ancient Russian church&folk designs. Many leading 'Russian style' designers in the 1900s - Vashkov, Ovchinnikov &the Moscow masters of the Fabergé workshop -graduated fr here, In contrast to the rigid European classicism of the St Petersburg Academy, the atmosphere in Moscow was relaxed &open to the exploration of Russian themes&styles