From Fabergé and Feodor Rückert to Alexei Bogoliubov and Konstantin Makovsky, works by Russian Masters will come together in London this season for Sotheby’s Russian Art sales on 4 June.

In 1932, when the term “Socialist Realism” was officially used for the first time, all artistic organizations in Soviet Russia were dissolved, to be replaced by the Artists’ Union of the USSR, ...