Contextualising the war in Ukraine
Part Four
21 April 2022
In the fourth instalment of our series on the contextually-linked topics of the war in Ukraine, we explore the story of Battleship Potemkin, Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and Ukrainian-born artist Kasimir Malevich.
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Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin is probably best known as a 1925 silent film telling the story of mutiny aboard Potemkin, of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. Although dramatised, it was reasonably faithful to the true story.
More about the Battleship Potemkin events here
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy is known primarily for having written the literary masterpieces War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77), which are regarded as among the finest novels ever written. His experience of war converted Tolstoy from a dissolute and privileged society author to a non-violent and spiritual anarchist.
More of Leo Tolstoy here
Kasimir Malevich
Kasimir Malevich was a Ukrainian artist and art theorist who was a pioneer of the Suprematism style, which refers to abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects
More by Kasimir Malevich here
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