Art in Russia

Home to artworks so small you need a microscope to see them.

The largest art park on the European continent.

An art museum inside an active factory.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

Dark, eerie exhibits make for a surreal exploration of the subconscious.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

A former military outpost of Ivan the Terrible, the 16th-century church contains some of the rarest examples of Eastern Orthodox mural paintings.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

A tiny park off the beaten path covered in ingenious scrap metal sculptures.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.