Moscow’s Multimedia Art Museum and Yandex — the country’s largest search engine — recently joined forces to launch an online photo bank, bringing together photographs not only from museums and public archives but also from personal collections across the world’s largest nation. The portal, simply called “The History of Russia,” received support from the Ministry of Culture and the Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications and is intended to acquaint visitors with Russian history through visuals.
More than 40 institutions and collections are currently involved, including the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the State Literary Museum, the National Library of Russia, and the Serpukhov History and Art Museum
