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Film

Victor Kossakovsky’s celebrated documentary “Aquarela” releases in UK cinemas

BY Anya Walsh POSTED 14/12/2019 12:00 PM

The sheer beauty and power of water Read More

Theatre

EUGENE ONEGIN (ENCORE)

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 14/12/2019 10:00 AM

The screening of The Vakhtangov Theatre's performance Read More

Art

The Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2020

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 13/12/2019 10:18 AM

2020 Russian pavilion at the Venice Architectural Biennial Read More

Film

Citizen K

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 12/12/2019 10:43 AM

The documentary overview of Putin’s rise to power Read More

Talks and Events

Eduard Radzinsky returns to London

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 10/12/2019 10:00 AM

Stalin. The face and Images Read More

Art, People

Watching Socialism: The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe

BY Maria Kruglyak POSTED 10/12/2019 10:00 AM

Interview with two professors of Soviet cultural history Read More

Art

EMIL HOPPÉ: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BALLETS RUSSES

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 09/12/2019 10:00 AM

Homage to the genius of Sergei Diaghilev and Emil Otto Hoppé Read More

Music

Revolution in the Head

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 08/12/2019 12:55 PM

Shostakovich’s Symphony No.11 Read More

Art, Film

Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 07/12/2019 11:47 AM

The selection of Andrei Tarkovsky Polaroids Read More

Theatre

The new heartbreaking retelling of Chekhov’s Classic

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 06/12/2019 10:30 AM

The daring adaptation of Chekhov's Three Sisters Read More

Art

Recycling People by Masha Trotzky

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 05/12/2019 10:00 AM

The solo exhibition by established Russian artist and designer Read More

Music, People

David Nice: an expert in classical music

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 04/12/2019 10:00 AM

Interview with the expert in Russian classical music Read More

Music, Talks and Events

SOVIET MUSIC OF THE 1920S

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 03/12/2019 8:02 PM

A lecture-workshop on Soviet Music of the 1920s Read More

Books, Reviews

Sergei Tretyakov – Centre Stage

BY Peter Lowe POSTED 03/12/2019 10:47 AM

Review of Sergei Tretyakov’s ground-breaking play Read More

Music, Talks and Events

THE PUSHKIN HOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 02/12/2019 9:57 AM

The brand new Festival of Russian music Read More

Art

Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov in Zimmerli Art Museum

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 01/12/2019 10:00 AM

The hallmarks of unofficial Soviet art Read More

Art, Art Market, Russian Art Week

SUPREMATIST STABILITY

BY Simon Hewitt POSTED 30/11/2019 11:36 PM

RAW 2019 Statistical Summary Read More

Music

Moisey Weinberg and why we need to know his music

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/11/2019 2:31 PM

The story of the unique Russian composer Read More

Art, Art Market, Russian Art Week

Russian Art Week Winter 2019: Results and Reflections

BY James Butterwick POSTED 29/11/2019 1:53 PM

Russian Art Week Results Read More

Books, Talks and Events

The Story of Synko-Filipko and other Russian Folk Tales

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 28/11/2019 10:00 AM

Fontanka’s new book Read More

Art, Art Market

Sale of the fine Russian antique weaponry

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 27/11/2019 10:52 AM

Thomas Del Mar Ltd auction Read More

Art

Inna’s Dream

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 26/11/2019 10:00 AM

Varvara Shavrova’s fourth solo presentation Read More

Art, Talks and Events

The opening of the Russian Art Week

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 25/11/2019 10:00 AM

RAW semi-annual party Read More

Dance, Music

BALLET ICONS GALA celebrates its 15 anniversary

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 24/11/2019 10:00 AM

The thrilling programme of world class ballet Read More

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🎞️ Evgeny Onegin Encore 🎥

Back by popular demand, Stage Russia and Pushkin House present a screening of The Vakhtangov Theatre’s Eugene Onegin, starring the incomparable @sergey_makovetskiy_official in the title role at @pushkinhouselondon on December 15th.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with a Russian theatre expert Maria Shevtsova.

Don't miss out, for more information visit our website!

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🇷🇺 THE RUSSIAN PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2020 🏯

Arch Daily reports that OMA’S architect and urbanist Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli will serve as the curator of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2020. Moreover, Teresa Iarocci Mavica, co-founder, and director of the V-A-C Foundation was appointed as commissioner of the Pavilion by the Russian Ministry of Culture. The exhibition entitled Open! will showcase young Russian architects and will focus on the renovation of the century-old building of the pavilion, built by renowned Russian architect Alexey Shchusev in 1914.

For further details check out the article on our website!

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🎥 Citizen K screening 🎞️ An absorbing documentary overview of Putin’s rise to power, centred upon exiled Russian oligarch and political dissident @m_khodorkovsky by @alexgibneyfilm will be screened for London audiences at @icalondon from 13 December 2019 until 19 December 2019.

To read more and find out where to catch the movie visit our website!

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🆙 We are delighted to announce that fans of writer and playwright Edward Radzinsky can now purchase VIP category tickets for the great master’s unique public event on January 24, 2020 at the @rgs_sg

For the guests with VIP tickets, the organisers have reserved the best seats in the hall and you will be invited to a post-concert reception with wine and snacks specially prepared by experts: traditional food with modern twist.

The reception will be held in the Map Room in the same building in the company of Edward Stanislavovich and a very limited number of guests.

VIP tickets can be purchased by getting in touch at natasha@russianartandculture.com

Don't miss out, limited tickets available!

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📺 WATCHING SOCIALISM: THE TELEVISION REVOLUTION IN EASTERN EUROPE 🌍

This summer, the @wendemuseum opened its doors with a new exhibition, Watching Socialism: The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe. One of its kind, the Wende is a hub for researchers of the Cold War, being an archival space with a museum. Having recently moved to a bigger venue, Wende is keen to expand its audiences. While keeping its strong dedication to research, their collection and exhibitions can be of interest for anyone looking for a more complex view of a seemingly well-known period of history. Watching Socialism is a case in point of this approach. Showcasing the diversity of media culture in Eastern Europe, it challenges the pertinent Cold War myths and triangulates the understanding of socialist culture by moving ‘beyond the idea of communist television as a propaganda tool’. Maria Kruglyak met with the two curators who worked with Wende on this exhibition, both from Loughborough University, cultural historian Professor Susan E. Reid, and media scholar Professor Sabina Mihelj. They discussed media culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain and the complicated depiction the exhibition at Wende presents.

Read the full interview by @m.kruglyak on our website!

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➡️ VIP tickets available for the annual BALLET ICONS GALA, presented by Ensemble Productions, which celebrates its 15th anniversary at the Coliseum on January 26th 2020 with a thrilling programme of world class ballet.

Immerse yourself in this unique opportunity to experience a star-studded evening at the Ballet Icons Gala, in London this January with one of our VIP tickets!
Take your seat for this world-class performance, with star dancers from the Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Staatsballett Berlin, Boston Ballet and the Dutch National Ballet, at London’s Coliseum – 26th January 2020.
Then join us at the glamorous Corinthia Hotel for our exclusive dining reception and three-course fine dining experience, with A-list celebrities.
For those looking for our full VIP treatment we recommend going for the top package, which includes backstage passes and photo opportunities with the artists and special guests!
Tipped as “an unbelievable eye–watering roster of world–class international dancers...” by the British Theatre Guide, this is an event you simply cannot miss.

To secure your VIP tickets please contact us at natasha@russianartandculture.com

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📸 EMIL HOPPÉ: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BALLETS RUSSES 💃

The Museum of Russian Icons will present Emil Hoppé: Photographs from the Ballets Russes, November 15, 2019 through March 8, 2020. The exhibitions pays homage to the genius of two men: famed Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev who, more than a century ago, founded the Ballets Russes; and renowned British photographer Emil Otto Hoppé, who, between 1911 and 1921, photographed the champions of that illustrious company.

@russianicons

Read more on out website!

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➡️ Eduard Radzinsky returns to London!

Eduard Radzinsky, author, historian, scriptwriter and brilliant storyteller returns to London. Since his last appearance in 2017 the organisers have received numerous requests to repeat the performance.

This time, on January 24 2020, Radzinsky will present his unique programme Stalin. The face and images. The author spent more than 7 years collecting and editing the materials.

All the money will go to the fund @chanceforlife.charity which helps children in Russia and has already raised money for numerous needed operations. You can support the project and the fund by ordering the tickets following the link on our website!

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🎶 Revolution in the Head

Shostakovich’s Symphony No.11, inspired by the Russian revolution, is played with fervour by the @londonphilharmonicorchestra on December 11 at @royalfestivalhall

January 1905: Russia teeters on the brink of revolution, and as crowds fill St Petersburg’s Palace Square, great and terrible events are about to unfold.

With its revolutionary songs and clanging alarm bells, Shostakovich’s massive 11th Symphony has the immediacy of a great film score, but charged with massive – and tragic – symphonic power.

It’s hard to match that, but tonight Peter Donohoe and @vladimir_jurowski give a rare London performance of John Foulds’s breathtaking Dynamic Triptych.

A dizzying fusion of Indian philosophy and Jazz Age verve, huge in scale and volcanic in energy, it’s arguably Britain’s greatest 20th-century piano concerto you’ve never heard.

For ticket information visit our website!

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🎁Christmas is coming and it’s time to get presents. We offer you a variety of accessories and valenki (Russian Uggs 🤩)from Russian artists Olga Soldatova, Tatiana Guseva ans Masha Trotzky ☎️💻contact us natasha@russianartandculture.com to order your preferred item

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🎁 Gift ideas: Thomas, Lucy and Altai: The Atkinson's Adventures in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe 📖

This is the full life biography of an unjustly forgotten man: Thomas Witlam Atkinson (1799 – 1861), architect, artist, traveller extraordinaire, author – and bigamist. Famous in his lifetime as ‘the Siberian traveller’, he spent seven years travelling nearly 40,000 miles through the Urals, Kazakhstan and Siberia with special authorisation from the Tsar, producing 560 watercolour sketches of the often dramatic scenery and exotic peoples. He kept a detailed daily journal, now extensively quoted for the first time with his descendants’ cooperation. This is also the story of Lucy, his spirited and intrepid wife and their son Alatau Tamchiboulac, called after their favourite places and born in a remote Cossack fort. They both shared his many adventures and extremes of heat and cold, travelling with him on horseback up and down precipices and across dangerous rivers.

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To secure your copy visit our bookshop, link in bio!

Price £25+PP

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📷 Polaroids by Andrey Tarkovsky

Andrey Tarkovsky is considered by many to be one of the greatest filmmakers the world has ever seen. Although he made just eight feature films before his life was cut tragically short by cancer, at the age of 54, each is an artistic masterpiece and a major landmark in world cinema. This exhibition presents a selection of prints from his portfolio of Polaroids, produced in association with the Florence-based Tarkovsky Foundation archive, which is maintained by the filmmaker’s son Andrey A. Tarkovsky.

The exhibition is open from 5 December 2019 until 25 January 2020 at @thebuildingcentre

More on out website!

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🎭 THE NEW HEARTBREAKING RETELLING OF CHEKHOV’S CLASSIC

Following his smash-hit Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams returns to the National Theatre with the heartbreaking retelling of Chekhov’s Three Sisters directed by Nadia Fall (Home, Dara). Love and longing in 1960s Nigeria.

Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos.

The production is also supported by the series of the events:

A Short History of the Biafran Civil War Fri 6 Dec, 6pm
Surviving Biafra: A Nigerwife’s Story Tue 7 Jan, 6pm
Three Sisters Student Conference Fri 31 Jan, 10.30am
Exploring Three Sisters and Chekhov Fri 7 Feb, 2pm
Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fall Fri 7 Feb, 6pm
Actors in Conversation Fri 14 Feb, 3pm

For more information on the play and the surrounding events, visit our website.

Three sisters is on at @nationaltheatre 03 December 2019 - 19 February 2020

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🎶 WHO IS THE COMPOSER MECHISLAV (MOISEY) WEINBERG, AND WHY DO WE NEED TO KNOW HIS MUSIC?

A Polish–born, Soviet composer Mechislav Weinberg was born on 8 December 1919 in Warsaw. No one at the time foresaw him trading his name and his homeland for survival and then be put in prison in his newly adopted ‘mother country’. On the occasion of the upcoming concert, the pianist and music programme curator Yulia Chaplina discusses the work of the unique Russian composer of Polish origin, Moisey Weinberg.

Read the full article on our website!

The concert takes place at @pushkinhouselondon on December 3rd.

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📖🎼 DAVID NICE: AN EXPERT IN CLASSICAL MUSIC

On 7 December David Nice is curating a lecture-workshop on Soviet Music of the 1920s at Pushkin House. David is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster, as well as an expert in classical music known in music circles across the globe. He contributes regular articles and reviews to publications including the BBC Music Magazine, and The Guardian, and broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3. He is currently classical music and opera editor to the online reviews site The Arts Desk. David is the author of a number of books about composers including Strauss, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Elgar, and is currently working on the second volume of his Prokofiev biography for Yale University Press. David reads fluently in Russian.

Russian Art and Culture’s music contributor and concert pianist Yulia Chaplina met David to understand more about his four-hour lecture-workshop and to find out more about his views on Russian and Soviet music in general.

On December 7th at @pushkinhouselondon

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📖 Book review: SERGEI TRETYAKOV – CENTRE STAGE

It is fair to say, regarding this collection of his plays, that Sergei Tretyakov is not as famous as some of the men with whom he was once associated. It would, however, be hard to write of Soviet culture in the 1920s without mentioning his name. In his early plays he worked closely with Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Meyerhold to push the boundaries of theatrical form and representation. He was also a founding editor of the ‘Left Front of Art’ journal LEF and its successor Novyi LEF, collaborating with Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko amongst others to affirm that the changes wrought by Soviet power would find their necessary expression in equally daring works of art and literature. In this regard his plays, particularly the agitational-theatre of Are You Listening, Moscow? (1923) and Gasmasks (1924) capture perfectly the energies of their time. They shock and intrigue in equal measure, like so much of Soviet culture when it might have seemed that boundaries were there to be pushed and no subject matter was off-limits. Now translated and collected in a single volume, they burst forth again, leaving the reader trying to imagine what it might have been like to see them performed by the First Workers Theatre of the Proletkult, under Eisenstein’s direction, in a theatre building or in the gasworks of Moscow’s Kursk railway station.

Read the rest of the article by Peter Lowe on our website!

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🎶 Soviet Music of the 1920's

What turn did Russian music take after the 1917? With Stravinsky already in the west, its more experimental side had shifted to Paris and the Ballets Russes, not least with the premiere of The Rite of Spring in 1913. The new Soviet scene was quick to catch up after its own fashion. So much has been written about the move to socialist realism under Stalin, and how Prokofiev and Shostakovich managed to circumvent that up to a point. Yet the state absorption of individual groups, which at first seemed like a good thing, didn’t happen until 1933.

The 1920s, on the other hand, were a hotbed of experimentation reflecting both the ‘mechanical style’ to come out of Paris on the one hand and the twelve-tone and atonal scores of the Second Viennese School on the other (Berg’s Wozzeck reached Russia in the late 1920s). Some of the movers and shakers, like Mosolov and Roslavets, are all but forgotten today; we’ll be hearing some extraordinary recorded excerpts showcasing their work. The pioneering dramas of the young Shostakovich and the rather older Prokofiev in ballet and oratorio will also be illustrated in sound and vision, with passing reference to the visual artists who progressed alongside them.

For more information visit our website or join the event on December 7th at 2pm at @pushkinhouselondon

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@james_butterwick_gallery reflects on this winter's Russian Art Week. Read his insights on our website!

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🎨 ILYA KABAKOV AND VIKTOR PIVOVAROV IN ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM

A new exhibition @zimmerliartmuseum invites visitors to delve into one of the hallmarks of unofficial Soviet art from the height of the Cold War. Dialogues – @ilyaemiliakabakov and @viktor.pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves, focuses on the two artists’ work created in the format of the album: an innovative genre of visual art popularized in the 1970s by conceptual artists in Moscow. Drawn from the museum’s Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, the exhibition provides a rare opportunity to view several albums in their entirety. With loose pages of delicately colored images, often complemented by handwritten texts, an album is simultaneously a drawing and a novel, an installation and a performance. They serve as an inspirational model for audience engagement, telling stories that are at once specific and universal.

The exhibition is on 30 November 2019 - 28 March 2020

For more information visit our website!

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