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Byline: Ted Loos
If you think of Russian art as jumping from gilded religious icons to brainy abstractions by Kazimir Malevich with a Siberian wasteland in between, get ready to bid that idea a hearty dos vedanya with the arrival of this month's
blockbuster show of 800 years of masterpieces and master collections at the Guggenheim: "RUSSIA!"
"There's so much glamour and drama in the history of Russia," says Guggenheim curator Robert Rosenblum. "There's a whole cast of fascinating characters." Chief among them are Catherine the Great and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, both
of whose portraits grace the 280-work exhibition.
The installation has been designed by French interiors ace ...