My Russia

A real wish to make you discover the other Russia,
the one about which we speak little, my Russia,
the one that gave me so much, taught me so much.
Having dreamed about it for a long time... I made it...

On October 12th, 2001, I opened my gallery, "Rue Pouchkine"
to make the Arts and Crafts of Russia known and to promote them...
As crossroads for our two cultures...
Come and share with me my affection for Russia...

Pascale Bastianelli

Current events

Biography movie: the origin of the Gallery

Exhibition "Russian Easter" in Marseille (pictures)

Exhibition "Russian Easter" in Marseille (movie)

The second exhibition in Marseille

"It is the poetic message of
The Russian Steppes, of their night
That quivers with savage accents,
And the dream of which seduces us".
Petr Vyazemsky

Artists

I wish for every artist to be fairly paid, so that their talent enables them to continue to create in comfort, so that their work assures their future and the future of their families...

I wish that their children are proud of the talents of their parents, so that these children can in turn pursue their own chosen profession...

And I wish that we, who are living here, would secure the longevity of their talents!
It is our differences that make up our wealth...

'Beauty will save the world'. Fedor Dostoevsky

An ancient history

The decisive meeting between France and Russia occurs in the two decades that precede the French Revolution.
Our philosophers (Voltaire, Diderot) saw in Catherine II the enlightened despot to which they appealed of their wishes.
When the people of Paris took the Bastille, moods and ideas coming from France began to spread widely in the circles of Russian aristocracy...
With the exception of Pushkin and of Lermontov (which were both killed in a duel at a very young age), all the great Russian writers went to France.

Countess de Segur, "the Russian writers are the most read in France".
Jules Verne, "the French writers are the most read in Russia".

"Russia is understood not by the mind,
Nor by a common rule.
She has a special stature of her own:
In Russia one can only believe".
Tyutchev, 1866