Talks and Events

Dom Kul’tury in Venice

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 17/11/2019 9:01 AM

The second edition of V-A-C Zattere autumn / winter programme Read More

Irina Khakamada’s masterclass in London

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 11/11/2019 9:39 AM

Dao of life. Three steps towards success Read More

New English translation of Doctor Zhivago

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 09/11/2019 5:52 PM

The book presentation Read More

WE ARE BUILDING CAPITALISM! MOSCOW IN TRANSITION 1992-1997 – BOOK PRESENTATION AND LAUNCH

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 23/10/2019 9:12 PM

The fascinating new book about Moscow Read More

Nijinsky’s Last Dance that God Only Knows

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 09/09/2019 10:00 AM

Kate Tiernan’s project God Only Knows Read More

The Ship of Tolerance: A Concert for London

BY Jagger Biggs POSTED 07/09/2019 3:28 PM

Classical programme performed by young talents from all over the world Read More

RUSSIA BEHIND THE CAMERA – ARCHIVES, ART AND REVOLUTION

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 04/09/2019 6:14 AM

A masterclass exploring fim making in Russia Read More

Stalker: Tarkovsky’s masterpiece

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 01/09/2019 10:00 AM

1979 Soviet science fiction art film Read More

‘God Only Knows’: The last performance of Vaslav Nijinsky

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 31/08/2019 3:57 PM

A unique dance & word performance in Tate Staff Biennale programme Read More

Lev Shtrum and the New Translation of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad

BY Jagger Biggs POSTED 20/08/2019 10:00 AM

The new translation which aims to restore the original vision Read More

The Bulldozer Show: milestone in Russian Cultural History

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 08/08/2019 8:50 AM

Screening of Oscar Rabin: A Happy Life Journey Read More

Pushkin House Book Fair

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 07/07/2019 10:00 AM

Discover new and vintage books and find some rare gems Read More

The stories of British spies for the USSR

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 05/07/2019 10:00 AM

Spy Sunday in Pushkin House Read More

Goncharova & Larionov: Painting the Future

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/06/2019 10:00 AM

Jilleen Nadolny's talk Read More

Vasily Grossman: literature and politics in the USSR

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 28/06/2019 1:34 PM

Discussion of Vasily Grossman’s FStalingrad, 1952 Read More

Edvard Radzinsky on “the great adventuress” Princess Tarakanova

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 26/06/2019 2:23 PM

Lecture on one of the most mysterious women in Russian history Read More

Pushkin House: DID PUSHKIN LIVE HERE?

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 22/06/2019 10:00 AM

Panel discussion on the history of Pushkin House Read More

WE’RE ALL GANGSTERS NOW: RUSSIAN ORGANISED CRIME

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 27/05/2019 12:00 PM

"Unfashionably optimistic" views on Russian future Read More

Russian Talks: Evgeny Granilchikov

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 23/05/2019 10:26 AM

Next talk in Russian artists series Read More

Literary paradise in St Petersburg

BY Olga Sliusarenko POSTED 21/05/2019 8:56 AM

XIV St.Petersburg International Book Fair Read More

WORKSHOP: RUSSOMANIA

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 19/05/2019 8:54 AM

Russia’s revolutionary tradition through British literature. Read More

GREETINGS FROM THE BARRICADES: REVOLUTIONARY POSTCARDS IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 09/04/2019 10:00 AM

An illustrated overview of opposition postcards under the Tsars Read More

Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia

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

book launch of Dr Andrey Shabanov's new monograph Read More

Constantin Kousnetzoff: a return to the context

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 02/04/2019 10:00 AM

Series of events dedicated to the work of a prominent Russian artist Read More

Artist Talk: Ivan Plusch

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 31/03/2019 3:17 PM

Series of talks by Russian artists in London Read More

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➡️ New book out: RUSSIAN SILVER. ENAMELS. FABERGÉ 📖

PRICE: £30 + PP

To get your copy today visit our website! A perfect Christmas gift for anyone who loves art and history.

The tradition of gold- and silversmithing in Russia reaches back well into the Middle Ages. Beginning in the mid-16 th century, throughout the 17 th century, until the reign of Peter the Great, the Kremlin workshops (Oruzhenynaya palata) produced superb jeweled and enameled gold and silver-gilt artifacts, many of them commissioned by the tsars. Many of them can today be admired in the Kremlin Armoury Museum. The forms of these objects were essentially Russian: the oklad (icon covers), kovsh (duckshaped drinking vessel), charka (vodka cup), bratina (bowl), stakan (beaker), as well as arms and liturgical implements. Neglected throughout most of the 18 th century and early 19 th century when they were supplanted by Western shapes and decorations, all these forms resurfaced during the Russian national revival beginning in the 1840s and remained popular until the 1917 Revolution.

@ruzhnikov_art

To place an order visit our website!

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🎨 ARE YOU READY FOR THE RUSSIAN ART WEEK? The auction schedule for this winter's RAW is out now.

It is an exciting period when the major auction houses host their Russian sales in London. Here are all their schedules and preview dates so you don’t get lost in the whirlwind of Russian culture.

@christiesinc 25 NOVEMBER 2019

They kick off the week with the sales held on25 November at 10:30 and 13:30.

The viewing is open 22 November: 9:00 – 16:30 and 23 – 24 November 12:00 – 17:00

On 27 November Christie’s will also hold Russia: Important Books and Manuscripts sale.

@macdougallsauction 25 AND 27 NOVEMBER 2019

On 25 November MacDougall’s will also hold its sales of Contemporary Russian Art at 14:30.

It will be followed by Important Russian Art Auction in 27 November 2019 the Important Russian Art sale at 10:30.

The viewing is open 23–26 November 2019, 11:00–17:30. (For more details please consult the website)

@sothebys 26 NOVEMBER 2019

On 26 November Sotheby’s holds 2 sales: Russian Pictures at 10:00 and Russian Works of Art, Fabergé and Icons at 14:30.

The viewing is open 22 – 26 November: 9:00 – 17:00

@bonhams1793 27 NOVEMBER 2019

Finally, on 27 November Bonham’s holds the Russian Art sale at 15:00.

The viewing is open 24 November: 11:00 – 15:00, 25 – 26 November: 9:00 – 16:30, 27 November: 9:00 – 12:00

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➡️ Roseberys London Auction

@roseberysauctioneers will host an online auction on December 4th starting at 12pm GMT.

Impressionist, Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art the Catalogue is now live on the official website.

Viewing Times at Roseberys

Sunday 1 December 10.00am - 2.00pm

Monday 2 December 9.30 am - 5.30pm

Tuesday 3 December 9.30 am - 5.30pm

Wednesday 4 December 9.30 am - 11.45am

For more information contact Tess O'Brien

tessobrien@roseberys.co.uk.

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➡️ The second auction of the week takes place on November 21 at 11.00am in the Meridian hotel, Monte Carlo.
The auction catalogue of Russian art contains more than 500 art items and includes paintings and graphic works, engravings and placards, ancient books, items of decorative and craft art, silver and porcelain.

Sea moonscape by Ivan Aivazovsky, a portrait of an elegant lady by Konstantin Makovsky, ‘Gardens of Beijing’ by Camille Benoit (making its first appearance at auction), ‘Firebird’ by Nikolas Kalmakoff, and ‘Sisters of mercy’ by Mikhail Klodt are the main lots of the opening section of the Russian art auction, painting.

Decorative art The most important auction lot will be a large presentation silver kovsh (Moscow, circa 1696) (Peter the Great) with the gift inscription in Russian Church Slavonic language : ‘By God’s mercy, the Great Sovereign, Tsar, Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich, Autocrat of All Russia, granted this ladle to the sotnik Kozma Kamenev while being in the customs in 1695, who took 104 rubles, 3 altyns, 2 dengas.’ A rich collection of silver will also be exhibited at the auction. This collection contains such significant lots as a samovar from 1827 (lot 813), wedding silver glasses from the 19th century (lot 814), a Faberge blotter 1908-1917 with a silver plate (lot 816), a silver mug with the image of the Emperor of the Russian Empire Nicholas II (lot 817), and 4 silver plates by Faberge from the private collection of Elizabeth Obolenskaya Demidova of the famous Ural Industrialists Demidov dynasty (lot 824). For more information and to see the full catalogue visit our website!

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➡️ ICEBREAKER DREAMING: AN EXHIBITION BY RUTH MACLENNAN

An outdoor projection will animate the exterior wall of @pushkinhouselondon on Bloomsbury Square on the opening night of Icebreaker Dreaming, a new solo exhibition by the artist Ruth Maclennan. The exhibition explores the Russian Arctic, as a place to live in, to travel through, to project onto, to control and exploit for its natural resources, in the context of the climate emergency.

The exhibition opens 21 November 2019 and is on until 08 February 2020.

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🎶 Chamber Music Box Concert

Concluding its fourth successful season, the popular Hampstead concert series Chamber Music Box continues today, Sunday, 17 November 2019 to present another concert of exceptional chamber music playing in the beautiful, yet informal setting of Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel.

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Less than a week left until the Russian Art Week kicks off! Our beautiful guide is now available in print across different locations in central London, make sure you look out for your copy 📖

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🎨 HERMITAGE FINE ART: UPCOMING AUCTIONS

On November 17th and 21st Hermitage Fine Art will auction collections of numismatics, objects of vertu, Russian and international fine art in the Meridian Beach Plaza hotel, Monte Carlo. The preview of the sales will be held on 14th of November. The auction house will exhibit outstanding masterpieces by great Russian and European painters including Camille Pissarro, Eugene Boudin, Ivan Aivazovsky, Konstantin Makovsky.

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➡️ “Recycling People”, exhibition by Masha Trotzky at @saaslondon Art Gallery

22 November - 22 December 2019

The series “Social Madness” is dedicated to the new aesthetic and ideology dictated to us by social networks. How did Facebook and YouTube change our habits and behaviour and language? How fake materials and fake news became an obligatory part of our life? And who are they - the People of the Future? This project was created in 2019 and will be shown in London for the first time.

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📢 Just a little over a week left until Russian Art Week starts, have you checked out our guide yet?

Available in PDF on our website, get your copy today!

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🎼 MOISEY WEINBERG CENTENARY CONCERT

A concert celebrating the centenary of the unique Russian composer of Polish origin, Moisey (Mieczysław) Weinberg (1919-1996). Friend and disciple of Shostakovich, his musical style was also influence by Prokofiev and Myaskovsky. The programme is curated by an award- winning pianist Yulia Chaplina and features the newly appointed leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Yuzefovich as a guest soloist, in addition to Weinberg-expert Yuri Kalnits.

On December 3rd at @pushkinhouselondon

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📖 New English translation of Doctor Zhivago

Nikolas Pasternak Slater, doctor, translator of Russian classical literature, grandson of the artist Leonid Pasternak and nephew of Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak, invites everyone to the evening dedicated to the release of his new English translation of the novel “Doctor Zhivago”. Come by for the presentation on November 21!

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📢 Irina Khakamada will present her new master-class “The Dao of life. Three steps to success” at London School of Economics on November 16th.

To find out more and get tickets visit our website!

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➡️ Art Impression 🎨

@rusartculture and @malabartgallery present the work of Mariya Primachenko, Grigor Kruk, Tetiana Yablonska.

The exhibition is on 22-26 November at @shaperorarebooks

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➡️ Get your copy of Ruzhnikov - Fine arts & antiques!

The featured collection of the Russian works on paper encompasses more than 100 years and includes works of such artists as Aleksandr Briullov, Petr Sokolov, Vladimir Gau, Petr Balashov, Ilya Repin, Filipp Maliavin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky and others. The collection represents the key stages of the development of Russian works on paper as an independent art medium starting from the age of Romanticism to Modernism of the early XX century.

@ruzhnikov_art

To order your copy visit our website!

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🎼 Noseda: Russian Roots

A mythical, magical tale, a fate-filled journey from darkness to light, and pure Romantic lyricism – Gianandrea Noseda conducts Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Bruch.

Thu 28 Nov 2019 7.30pm - 9.30pm

@barbicancentre

Programme:
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh – Suite
BRUCH Violin Concerto No 1
Interval
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5

Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Janine Jansen violin
London Symphony Orchestra

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❌ Zero f*cks given exhibition

This unique exhibition by Anna Dobrovolskaya-Mints was open on 31 October at the very centre of Zurich and will be on until 24 November. 'In the classical sense, astrophotography is a method of conducting astronomical observations based on photographing celestial bodies.

Using classical methods of astrophotography, Anna creates night landscapes, experimenting with the properties of time and reflecting on philosophical escapism.' Read more on our website!

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🖋️ James Butterwick previews the RA+C November sales:

This winter, 2019, the London auctions of Russian Art are headed by a Kliun from the Costakis collection. Actually, let me re-phrase that. This winter, 2019, the London auctions of Russian Art are headed by Kliun of such mega, out-there brilliance that we might as well all pack up and go home. Best picture to come up at Russian Art Week for years? Go on! Tell me I’m wrong!

Indeed, it’s pretty difficult to find anything at the four auction houses that even holds a candle to this masterpiece... Read the rest on our website!

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🎥 Vysotsky... Odessa notebook

On 30th November, The Antropov Foundation jointly with Apollo Film and Russian Day, launches its first London event – the premiere of the documentary film Vysotsky… Odessa Notebook directed by Anatoly Balchev and produced by Mark Ivasilevitch.

To find out more visit our website!

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🎼 Italian arias and Russian romances

Celebrated soprano Hibla Gerzmava is making a long-awaited return to London to give a recital with her long-time pianist partner Ekaterina Ganelina. Ms Gerzmava has enjoyed a meteoric rise on the international opera stage since winning the Grand Prix at the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition. Her brilliant technique and luminous voice have captivated audiences at Teatro alla Scala, Zürich Opera House, Bolshoi Theatre, Opéra national de Paris and the Royal Opera House. In 2019-20 she returns the New York Metropolitan Opera to appear as Liu in Puccini’s Turandot.

The concert is on 13 February 2020. To find out more and find out how to secure your ticket visit our website!

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