Royal Academy of Arts: From Russia
I visited the Royal Academy of Arts for research into my character in The Cherry Orchard. They were showing French and Russian Master Paintings from 1870-1925. This is exactly the time when Luybov Ranevskya was both in France and Russia. I learned a lot from the paintings and the audio tour, everything from Russian history, to fashion and the social values of the time! Now, many people are used to using the internet as their only source of research, but we are warned not to forget about the other sources. Art, for me is by far one of the most effective ways to build character history, because you get visual information that is absolutely true to the time, and with a bit of background reading into history one quickly gets the whole picture.
The collection its self was not too large and takes approximately two hours to get through. It will run until the 18th of April if you are interested in seeing it!
