And after you do that, see Alexander Sukurov’s film Russian Ark, which is a dramatized tour through the Hermitage, led by a modern-day Russian and an 18th-century Frenchman, who provide an interesting contrapuntal point of view on the way the Russian elite seized hold of European ideas about art and philosophy. Plus, the whole thing is filmed in one shot, so that’s cool, too.
And after you do that, see Alexander Sukurov’s film Russian Ark, which is a dramatized tour through the Hermitage, led by a modern-day Russian and an 18th-century Frenchman, who provide an interesting contrapuntal point of view on the way the Russian elite seized hold of European ideas about art and philosophy. Plus, the whole thing is filmed in one shot, so that’s cool, too.