... to the 1830s from the museum collection, Tues. to Oct. 8. The History of Russia From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century (Istoriya Rossii s Drevneishikh Vremyon do Nachala 20 Veka): permanent display. The Patriotic War of 1812 (Otechestvennaya Voina 1812 Goda): an addition to the permanent display. Located at 1/2 Red Square. M. Ploshchad Revolyutsii. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Tues. and the first Mon. of the month. 692-4019/5660, www.shm.ru Krokin...

... and Kudrinskaya Ploshchad. Around 10 people were arrested at a camp near a statue of poet Bulat Okudzhava on Arbat, according to witnesses, Ekho Moskvy reported Monday. Another 40 protesters were detained by police at Kudrinskaya Ploshchad, art group Voina wrote on its Twitter account early Monday. A few dozen people remained at the site on Arbat on Monday afternoon, while another group of protesters has headed to Kudrinskaya Ploshchad, Ekho Moskvy reported. An anti-Kremlin protest camp has been migrating...

... upsurge in political art, inspired by and feeding into a wave of mass street protests against Putin's 12-year rule. The shift has sparked controversy after a top Russian art prize was awarded to a noncommercial project last year. Radical art collective Voina (War) won the 400,000 ruble ($13,600) Innovation Prize by the state National Center for Contemporary Art for a painting of a giant phallus on a cantilever bridge in St. Petersburg that rose to face the offices of the Federal Security Service, successor...

... Excursions 953-5223. An Autoline minibus runs from outside the New Tretyakov Gallery to the Tretyakov Gallery at 10/12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok daily at 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20 and 4:20 p.m., www.tretyakovgallery.ru Novy Manezh: Artist and War (Khudozhnik i Voina): graphics and watercolors by Vitaly Goryayev, to May 30. Located at 3 Georgiyevsky Pereulok. M. Okhotny Ryad. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 692-4459. Paperworks Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art: The Forest Tsar...

... Estimates of the crowd size at the opposition march vary drastically, ranging from 8,000 by police at 4 p.m. to 100,000 by Anastasia Udaltsova, wife of Left Front leader Sergei Udaltsov, writing on Twitter. A message on the Twitter account of art group Voina estimated 40,000 participants, accompanying the estimate with this photo: 4:42 p.m., Opposition Leaders Lead Line of Marchers: Leaders of the burgeoning opposition movement Alexei Navalny, Sergei Udaltsov, Boris Nemtsov, Garry Kasparov, Mikhail...