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The highlights of Bloomsbury Festival

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 17/09/2018 9:49 AM

Exciting events to add to your cultural calendar Read More

What is to be done?

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 05/09/2018 10:30 AM

Young scholars and researchers will try to find the answer. Read More

Join us on the Russian adventure!

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 03/09/2018 10:30 AM

Anna Prosvetova from Russian Art & Culture hosts a fascinating evening devoted to the Russian literature. Read More

The Romanov Season

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/08/2018 11:25 AM

Pushkin House in London launches the series of events devoted to the Russian Royal Family. Read More

Gnesin Music School comes to the Pushkin House

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 19/07/2018 11:21 AM

Students of Gnesin Music School present a contrasting programme of Russian and Western classics Read More

North Caucasus Pop-up at Calvert 22

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 17/07/2018 12:22 PM

Discover the allure of the North Caucasus at a special evening organised by Calvert 22 Read More

MOCT: International Contemporary Art Show and Workshops

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 11/07/2018 10:22 AM

For its first annual appearance, MOCT is delighted to present Future Relics, an international contemporary art show that kicks off with 5 days of culture over the areas of Art, Music, Cinema, Education and Gastronomy. “The core concept of MOCT is to bridge cultures and merge different art fields.” – Pierre Bourgoin, Director of […] Read More

Proms Talk with Anastasia Belina on Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 07/07/2018 12:46 PM

An introduction to Shostakovich’s ‘Leningrad’ Symphony with musicologist, presenter and writer Anastasia Belina. Read More

ANTON CHEKHOV’S GARDEN at the Hampton Court Flower Show

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 02/07/2018 12:00 PM

Anton Chekhov’s Garden is a project conceived by the Anton Chekhov Foundation. The goal is to create welcoming and tranquil places of beauty in healing environments in England, Russia and Ukraine where patients receiving care, as well as the personnel providing it, can take respite. Read More

SAAS LONDON GALLERY OPENING: VAL CHTAK STUDIES BRITISH CELEBRITIES

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 26/06/2018 8:00 PM

Sofya Abbott, owner of the new Art Space — SAAS gallery in London — will celebrate her gallery opening with an inaugural exhibition of Val Chtak‘s work — a contemporary Russian artist. British Celebrities will be Chtak’s first solo show in London. Valery Chtak deconstructs what it means to be a Celebrity: famous as a face, […] Read More

PUSHKIN THE OPERA: MARITA PHILLIPS IN CONVERSATION WITH SASHA DUGDALE

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 21/06/2018 3:01 PM

Marita Phillips is the great-great-great granddaughter of both Pushkin and Nicholas I. She has spent many years writing the libretto for Pushkin – The Opera, which will premiere in the UK on July 11th and 12th at Grange Park Opera, with a score by Russian composer Konstantin Boyarsky. In conversation with writer, translator and poet Sasha […] Read More

The Romanovs & their Tzarinas – Talk

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 20/06/2018 9:36 AM

A talk by Irena Lingard about the Romanov family and Russian culture. The Romanov House celebrates their 450th anniversary and it is 100 years since the murder of the last ruling Tzar. We shall look at the most interesting characters, relationship within the family, power, and love. The talk includes a slide show. Read More

CARDBOARDIA WEEK WORKSHOP IN SLOUGH (UK)

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 13/06/2018 9:00 AM

Cardboardia returns to UK this summer!!!! Imagine if you could build your ideal world. How would you create it? What would it look like? What characters and people would you see? Starting from 26 and until 29 June Moscow-based artist Sergej Korsakov and his indefatigable team will be setting up a Cardboardia Embassy in Slough, in order to organise a […] Read More

Assa (1987), Sergei Solov’ev, Kinoklassika Foundation

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 12/06/2018 8:22 PM

This cult crime film is widely seen as bringing Russian rock music from the underground into the mainstream. Assa’s main plot takes place in winter of 1980 and tells the story of a young nurse (Tatyana Drubich) who stays in Yalta with her patient and lover, Krymov, head of a criminal gang. She meets Bananan, […] Read More

International Conference ‘St Nicolas, Bari and Russian Icons’ to Take Place in Bari

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 08/06/2018 9:50 PM

On June, 28-29, the Italian city of Bari will play host to the international academic conference St Nicolas, Bari and Russian Icons’ . The conference will coincide with the final days of the exhibition Russian Icon. Prayer and Mercy, and will be attended by the leading historians, philologists and art historians from Russia, Italy and USA. […] Read More

ARTEMY TROITSKY ON VIKTOR TSOY: NOSTALGIC SYMBOL OR FUTURE HERO?

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 04/06/2018 1:03 PM

In 2018 no less than 3 biopics about Viktor Tsoy, killed in a car crash in 1990, will be released in Russia! Why so many, why now, and who is Viktor Tsoy? A talk with Artemy Troitsky, journalist, culturologist (Back in the USSR, Tusovka, SUBKULTURA) and personal friend of Tsoy’s. Artemy Troitsky has been both […] Read More

CAUCASUS ALL FREQUENCY: IN CONVERSATION WITH MOUNTAINS OF TONGUES

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 03/06/2018 9:00 AM

Discover the unique allure of the music and culture of the Caucasus with Mountains of Tongues at the launch party for their new music journal. We’ll listen to unreleased field recordings, watch video footage, and discuss the role of music in everyday life in this remarkable region of the world to celebrate Caucasus All Frequency, the new […] Read More

TCHAIKOVSKY AND CHOPIN BY LEEDS COMPETITION WINNER, ANNA TSYBULEVA

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/05/2018 12:55 PM

We are proud to announce the return of Anna Tsybuleva to Pushkin House, triumphant winner of England’s most prestigious piano competition in 2015. This is a rare opportunity to hear ‘a pianist of a rare gifts’ International Piano Magazine in London. In addition to Tchaikovsky’s Seasons, Anna will play a selection of works by Frederic Chopin. […] Read More

THE HOUSE OF GOVERNMENT: A SAGA OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: A TALK BY YURI SLEZKINE

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 27/05/2018 2:52 PM

Pushkin House welcomes Yuri Slezkine for a compelling talk on his book ‘The House of Government’, which is shortlisted for the 2018 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine tells the true story of the residents of an […] Read More

PUSHKIN THROUGH ENGLISH POETS

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 23/05/2018 3:41 PM

This year Pushkin’s birth is celebrated at Pushkin House with a bilingual reading – a poem for each year of his writing life, from the age of fourteen to thirty-six . A different translator has been chosen for each poem, representing the wide variety of responses to Pushkin during the twentieth century and the present […] Read More

GEORGIA ON THEIR MINDS

BY Simon Hewitt POSTED 16/05/2018 12:45 PM

Our International Editor Simon Hewitt will be reporting on the début edition of the Tbilisi Art Fair. Here he previews this exciting new addition to the Caucasus cultural calendar, which opens its doors on May 17. Read More

Vlad Strukov on Representations of Ethnic and Sexual Minorities in Popular Russian Culture

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 13/05/2018 2:29 PM

In the West, Russia – through the prism of its leadership – is often imagined as a homogenous society and culture, symbolised by its great figures Dostoevsky, Tarkovsky, and others. In this lecture, I will examine the issue of diversity – ethnic and sexual – as revealed in the Russian language popular culture. The focus […] Read More

SCREENING AND TALK WITH A LEADING RUSSIAN FILMMAKER MARINA RAZBEZHKINA

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 13/05/2018 1:03 PM

Marina Razbezhkina is one of the most respected documentary makers in Russia. Her directorial voice is unmistakable: her ability to look at the life of a person from up close to reveal the essence of everyday life, and also to see it in the grand and enchanting. Students and graduates of her Moscow School of […] Read More

June Barrow- Greeen on Sofia Kovalevskaya: “He Denies the Very Existence of a Woman Mathematician”

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 11/05/2018 3:00 PM

June Barrow-Green, Professor of History of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics will give an inaugural lecture on Sofia Kovalevskaya: “He Denies the Very Existence of a Woman Mathematician” The quote is from the famous novelist, George Eliot, when she introduced the Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya to the evolutionary philosopher Herbert Spencer in 1869. […] Read More

Ukrainian 1930s Avant-Garde Is Taking To Stage in London

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 06/05/2018 3:44 PM

Night Train Theatre Company is producing Maklena Grasa by Ukrainian playwright Mykola Kulish, translated into English for the first time by Maria Montague. Maklena Grasa was Kulish’s final major work before he was executed during the Stalinist purges, which swept across Ukraine in the late 1930s. The play was performed only five times in 1933 before it was banned by the Soviet […] Read More

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