The role of culture and art in shaping the international image of Russia

In article an attempt of identification of the main reasons promoting deterioration for the last decades of the international image of Russia is made. The author draws a conclusion about that. what is the foreign opponents to Russia charges of imperial ambitions and attempts of establishment of hegemony in the former Soviet Union, have far-fetched character. In article value of works of famous Russian writers and Soviet poets - F. Dostoyevsky, L. Tolstoy, V. Mayakovsky, etc., and also composers, musical performers of masters of the ballet - S. Rachmaninov, F. Shalyapin, S. Dyagilev - in formation of positive image of our country reveals. The author characterizes those means and methods to which Stalin and his immediate environment for a reconstruction of a positive image of the USSR abroad resorted. In article movies of famous Russian directors of N. Mikhalkov "Sunstroke" and A. Zvyagintseva "Leviathan" in the context of their formation of the international image of Russia are also analyzed. In conclusion of article the conclusion is drawn that only on the basis of the truth, real processes which happen in the country today, it is possible to create objective international image of Russia.