We are the willing prisoners of the chances of our lives – upbringings, friendships, lucky (and unlucky) breaks. It happened that I was born into an outsider’s love of Russian culture.

No Western collection has a self-portrait as striking as Zinaida Serebriakova’s At the Dressing-Table in 1909 (and the artist’s later personal history is astonishing). The picture is literally ...

The King and Queen posed for a set of official portraits in the gardens of Villa Wolkonsky (the home of the British ambassador to Italy, which was built in 1830 by Princess Zinaida Wolkonsky of Russia ...

Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology, immunologically characterized by a Th1 immune response. Transcriptome-wide expression studies in various types of sarcoid tissues ...

Sarcoidosis is a systemic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology characterized by tissue infiltration with macrophages and lymphocytes and associated non-caseating granuloma formation. The disease ...