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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
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The enlightenment ideal of a universal culture was abandoned for the national way. “Let us Russians be Russians, not copies of the French.” Karamzin renounced “humanity” for “nationality”. Before the French Revolution, he held the view that “the main thing is to be not Slavs, but Men. What is good for Men, can’t be bad for the Russians. By 1802 he was calling his fellow writers to embrace Russian
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