Marco Serrato

Category: Russia

  • Museum of Cosmonautics – VDNH Park

    Museum of Cosmonautics – VDNH Park

    Moscow’s Cosmonautics Museum is aimed to showcase the important role that Russia played in the space race during the 20th century. The museum is located underneath a 350-foot tall titanium obelisk known as the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, built in 1964 to celebrate the launch of Sputnik. We learned while visiting it that the museum pays special…

  • State Historical Museum – Moscow, ðŸ‡·ðŸ‡º

    State Historical Museum – Moscow, ðŸ‡·ðŸ‡º

    The State Historical is the largest national museum in Russia. It has priceless exhibits of archeology, numismatics, houseware, weapons and works of decorative and applied art. The Museum was built in 1875–1883, specifically for keeping the national treasury of Russia. We visited it by the end of June 2025, during our Summer vacations. We learned…

  • National Museum of the Republic of Karelia

    National Museum of the Republic of Karelia

    The National Museum of the Republic of Karelia was founded in 1871 by Olonets Governor Grigory Grigoriev. The museum collection contains more than 230 thousand items and makes it possible to present the originality of the region in the context of the spiritual and material wealth of Karelia. The museum is located in the historical…

  • The State Russian Museum – Saint Petersburg

    The State Russian Museum – Saint Petersburg

    The State Russian Museum, formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world’s largest depository of  Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list…

  • Book Review: How the West Brought War to Ukraine – Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe

    Book Review: How the West Brought War to Ukraine – Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe

    This book is written by Benjamin Abelow, who has worked in Washington, DC, writing, lecturing, and lobbying Congress about nuclear arms policy. Abelow holds a B.A. in modern European history from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine. I went through this book to get a different perspective…