Arizona republican., 1893-08-01

The showing thus made lat an ex-
penditure of over 100, 200 roubles), is
remarkably fine ard complete, only
lacking in that department which we,
in this country, commonly designate
as public schools, viz, primary and
grammar grades.
In the Fine Arts building there are
about 220 objects sent from Russia, the
work of such typical painters as Sem
iratsky, Makoffsky, Rapin, Beroff.
Some of these come direct from the
studios of these artists, but the greater
number of the pictures are merely
loaned by their private owners or by
the imperial galleries. The most dis
tinctive and remarkable of these paint
ings show the brilliant coloring, the
crude though effective drawing of the
Russian school and deal with native
subjects. There are some fine histor-
zeal and one or two striking genre
paintings in the lot. Those from ex-
patriated Russian artists at Paris,
Munich, Berlin, are not typical, but
exhibit in a measure the peculiarities
of the masters there. In water colors
and in sculpture the collection is weak,
but, take it altogether, it is the finest
and most characteristic showing of
Russian art ever made at foreign eX-
position. 1t is under the direction of
a Russo-American, Theodore Kamen-
sky, who is sculptor and has resided
in this country for the past twenty
years.
Something peculiarly Russian, too,
will be the exhibition of furs in Manu-
features building. Grunwald, the
largest individual fur dealer in the
world to-day, whose concessions for the
exclusive chase of the rarest fur-bear-
ing beasts in whole provinces of Rus
STA yield the imperial government but
one 1.-THE the revenue which the con-
cessionary reaps in the shape of an
nual profits (the same man, by the way,
who during the Moscow exposition, in
order to retain the favor of the en-
peror and to secure the financial sue
cess of the exposition itself, bought up
all the millions of tickets of admission
in advance), has magnificent display.
In mink, ermine, beaver, bear, silver
fox, Siberian squirrel and other peculiar
furs of the Russian dominions, and in
elegant capes, garments and caps made
of them, this exposition will show
more than has ever been seen outside
of the empire. One is astonished to
note, likewise in the section at Man
ufactures building, such amazingly
fine displays of furniture, pianos, brio
a-brac, textile fabrics and artistic
articles for domestic decorations-all
purely of Russian make-as can be
seen here. Fine bronzes and weapons,
made in the government factory at
lula and of distinctively Russian de-
signs and composition, are not less re-
markable than the splendid objects of
malachite (only found in Russian soiD,
lapis lazuli, Crimean marble and Fin
nish porphyry, tourmaline and other
rare and costly material. In silver and
gold ware, in jewelry and in leather
ware, too, Russia shows strength,
taste and originality. The taste may
be semi-barbaric, but it has the unde-
niablc merit of being sui generiS.
Outside of Manufactures building
and the Fine Arts gallery, Russia, with
here and there slight exception, is
not strong, In Transportation build
ing there are models of vessels, cables,
etc, on view. The Siberian mines are
illustrated in the Mining building. In
Horticultural hall there is magnificent
fruit, and the apples, ounces and pears
from the Crimea, for instance, seem to
be revelation to our California fruit
growers. WOLF Won SCHIERBRAND.