Natasha Fedorson

‘Who’s Afraid of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya?’ was the title of an essay that appeared in a Russian émigré literary journal in 1984. Petrushevskaya’s stories – short tales of doomed romance and family conflict set within cramped Soviet apartments – were domestic, small-scale, so why weren’t they being published? By 2009, things had...

The collection​ of modernist art from Ukraine currently on show at the Royal Academy is both an exhibition and a conservation project. In the Eye of the Storm (until 13 October) comprises 65 pieces, most of them on loan from the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv. After the removal of works from Kherson Art Museum at the beginning of Russia’s invasion (ten thousand pieces are...