Article on the affair between poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok in LGBTQ magazine Риск

Arguably the most popular Soviet nostalgia project of the 1990s was Leonid Parfenov and Konstantin Ernst’s "Starye pesni o glavnom [Old Songs About What Matters Most]"

A series of articles from the nascent “Kommersant Daily” dating to late 1992/ early 1993 sought to assess the paper’s target audience, the wealthy class of so-called “New Russians.”

“Namedni” (Recently), Leonid Parfenov’s project dedicated to recent history, was one of the most successful shows of the 1990s. Eschewing big narrative arcs, the program highlighted the past as a collection of memory sites—in this case, exploring the origins of the “New Russian” in 1991.

An excerpt from the art show “Matador,” created in 1990 by “ViD”'s junior partner, Konstantin Ernst (1961-). This clip derives from an episode on contemporary art and boasts a joyously elitist feel consistent with “ViD”’s "New-Russian" ethos.

The most famous woman in the Soviet Union transformed into a successful post-Soviet star.