The Pushkin Museum

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The next stop on my quest to find Mr. Snowden was the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Surprisingly, the museum actually has nothing to do with Alexander Pushkin, the famous Russian poet and author. It's actually full of fine art from all over Russia and Europe, archeological artifacts, and sculptures.

Right now there is an interesting exhibit of Soviet Nonconformist Art. The label "nonconformist" means the art wasn't in the Soviet Realist style, so the exhibit included work in many different forms by many different artists. 


The rooms were divided by style, time-period, or region. All the labels were in Russian, so I'm not sure what was original and was a copy. This room had art from the Middle Ages:


Ancient Egypt and Babylon:


 
The Code of Hammurabi:


Michelangelo's David:


A Portrait of an Old Woman by Rembrandt:


Still no signs of Snowden, but I'll have to keep looking. Honestly, I probably could have spent several more hours in the museum, so maybe I'll have to check it out again another time.

hulka

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