Labels:bulletin board | concert | monitor | rock | sky | water OCR: The turn Of the 19th 20th centuries is called the Silver Age of Russian art This name reflects the situation at the turn 0 any century: on the one hand it implies the sense that the end once magnificent culture is close while on the other hand it means the dawn of new era This poom was succinctly summed up by A.N. Benois an artist and critic, who said "We are another sad epoch which has achieved the peak of its maturity and now spreads the slanting rays of the setting sun over aging civilizations The age of the nobility assuredness IS passing away the slow and regular style of 19th century life Scientific discoveries and technologi ical inventions have shaken stable notions. The feeling grows that the worla is both magnificeni hano mood achievec