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Celebrating Igor Stravinsky in the city of his you

Celebrating Igor Stravinsky in the city of his youth by @ysavikovskaya is now available via our website (link in bio) ✨ The musical silence of the pandemic hasn’t stopped the flow of time, dip your toe into Stravinsky’s world at @mariinsky and beyond.

#newarticle #stravinsky #mariinsky #mariinskytheatre #riteofspring #igorstravinsky #hometown #stpetersburg #musicnews #classicalmusic #experimentalmusic #postpandemic #unlocking #pulcinella #petrouchka

🚀 Today, as we celebrate the Day of Cosmonautic

🚀 Today, as we celebrate the Day of Cosmonautics, we are inviting you to listen to two recent episodes about “Cosmic Design” with Polina Lysakova, co-curator of “Cosmic Design” exhibition that has recently finished at the Museum of Cosmonautics @mmkspace. Find more details via the link in our bio!

#cosmonaut #cosmonauticsday #spaceday #денькосмонавтики #космос #полетвкосмос #spacetravel #spaceflight #sovietpostcards #советскиеоткрытки #техникамолодежи #aeronautics #cosmic #cosmicdesign #музейкосмонавтики #museumofcosmonautics #happycosmonauticsday #cosmos #cosmo #cocurator #cocurate #curators

Our regular contributor @yuliachaplinapiano invite

Our regular contributor @yuliachaplinapiano invites you to listen to her #performance and master call of #Tchaikovsky’s #Lullaby Op 16/1. The #compositions of the great Russian #composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) are distinguished by one special feature – all of his works go straight to the heart and are deeply moving. Read more via the link in our bio ✨

#russianmusic #russiancomposer #pianist #contributor #classicalmusic #moving #music #movingmusic #profoundmusic #newarticle #readnow #musicnews #playmusic #russianclassics #tchaikovsky_cafe

Poems about paintings, or ”painting poems,” ar

Poems about paintings, or ”painting poems,” are a great tradition. W. H. #Auden’s ”Musee de Beaux Arts,” about #Bruegel’s #masterpiece ”The Fall of #Icarus” (ominously first published in the Spring of 1939), is one of the most well-known. And the Welsh poet and Anglican priest R. S. Thomas mastered, in works such as ”Van Gogh: Dr Gachet” and ”#Guernica: Pablo #Picasso,” this form of #poetry.

Allen Thomas’s favourite in this field, though, is the former #Archbishop of #Canterbury Rowan Williams’s poem ”Rublev”; about the Russian icon painter Andrei #Rublev and his painting ”The #Trinity.” He discusses it in one of our latest articles, click the link in our bio to have a read ✨

#holytrinity #russianicon #iconopainting #iconography #museedebeauxarts #archbishopofbanterbury #archbishop #religiousart #orthodoxart #iconrestoration #newarticle #christianorthodox #theology #fineart #classicalart #иконопись #теология #русскиеиконы #христианство

Latest episode of #kusochek by @lolszowska is out

Latest episode of #kusochek by @lolszowska is out on all platforms! In this episode Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushkainwonderland talks about Nabokov, antisemitism, Jewishness and much more. Follow the links in our bio to listen in ✨

#newepisode #interview #phd #nabokov #russianclassics #russianliterature #jewish #jewishness #antisemitism #newpodcast #russianpodcast #russianexpat #russiansinlondon #anglorussian #controversy #controversial #classicliterature

Find all of our latest articles via the link in ou

Find all of our latest articles via the link in our bio! Featuring @pushkinhouselondon’s latest #cosmos #exhibition, Yulia Chaplina’s contemplation of #Tchaikovsky’s #lullaby, the life and work of #Esenin @diana_malivani_official’s artworks and more ☀️

#fineart #contemporaryart #classicalmusic #russianart #russianmusic #newarticles #readonline #contributors #latest #pushkinhouse #pushkin #exhibition #newshow #newexhibition #contemplation #education #learning #russiansinlondon #russianexpats #artnews #musicnews #poetry #russianpoet #russianclassics

The world’s first #streaming service for #cinema

The world’s first #streaming service for #cinema from Russia, the #Caucasus and Central Asia, #Klassiki @klassiki.online @kinoklassika, will mark the 60th anniversary of Yuri #Gagarin’s #space #flight on 12 April 1961 with a special weekend of films all available online. From Friday 9 – Monday 12 April a selection of films inspired by the #Soviet Union’s contribution to the Space Race will be available for UK audiences.

The season, SOVIET SPACE, offers a #unique perspective on Russia’s ambitious space #programme of the 20th Century and straddles #Cosmonautics Day – a day when the achievements of Russia’s space programme are recognised. Read more via our main page, link in bio ✨

#spacerace #sovietfilm #societcinematography #spaceday #firstmaninspace #maninspace #spaceprogram #filmfestival #celebration #steamonline #availablenow #russiancinema #sovietcinema #yuriygagarin

The Easter Weekend is the perfect time to catch up

The Easter Weekend is the perfect time to catch up on all of our latest articles covering everything from new portals for digital #travel to #poetry, #festivals and #auctions. If you never want to miss a beat again, subscribe to our #newsletter through the link in our bio ✨

Meanwhile here is a preview of our post on the #celebration of Igor #Stravinsky at the @mariinsky which you can read now on our website 🔮

#newarticle #musiccelbration #mariinskytheatre #igorstravinsky #classicalmusic #digitaltravel #composer #russianmusic #russianclassics #stpetersburg #sovietmusic #gergiev #apollo #matsuev #denismatsuev

The Discover Moscow @discovermoscowrussia #portal

The Discover Moscow @discovermoscowrussia #portal is now offering video tours of some of the city’s #iconic buildings, including unique #monuments of #architecture, 19th century mansions, and examples of Art Nouveau and Soviet avant-garde.

The online excursions enable users to explore the layout, as well as the interiors and the historical background of cultural heritage sites, such as the buildings of the Northern River Station, the Igumnov Mansion and the #Petrovsky Access Palace.

Read more in our latest article (link in bio).

#newarticle #readnow #videotour #sovietarchitecture #artnouveau #sovietavantgarde #avantgarde #excursion #explorehistory #igumnov #heritage #culturalheritage #discovermoscow

Our new contributor, Lefteris Makedonas, takes you

Our new contributor, Lefteris Makedonas, takes you through a review of the two Soviet sci-fi movies screened during the 61st #Thessaloniki International Film Festival @filmfestivalgr in 2020. Today we are sharing the second review on Dead Man’s Letters (1986) by Konstantin #Lopushansky. Read more via the link in our bio ✨

#thessaloniki #salonika #scifi #film #russiancinema #sovietcinema #cinematography #blackandwhite #bandwfilm #russianfilm #sovietfilm #filmfestival #newcontrivutor #cinemareview #filmreview #deadmansletters

This week on #kusochek #podcast #newepisode Lara @

This week on #kusochek #podcast #newepisode Lara @lolszowska interviews Phil #Cavendish of #SSEES, UCL about Soviet and #russianfilm, though the conversation veers in wonderful directions, even leading to a comparison of Lady #Gaga and #Britney Spears. Tune in to hear why Phil thinks he could write an entire module on just one #Tarkovsky film and why he hates Love Actually and Irony of Fate (one of Lara’s favourite #sovietfilms!). Phil also shares a number of talented #filmmakers from Russia, #Ukraine and East Europe that listeners are recommended to explore. Find it by searching “kusochek” on @spotify and @applepodcasts or via the links in our bio ✨

#easterneurope #russsiancinema #easterneurope #easterneuropeanfilm #philipcavendish #ssees #ucl #ukrainianfm #russianculture #filmmaker #filmresearch @uclssees @ucl @cinema_of_tarkovsky

The Pushkin House Music Festival 2021 that took pl

The Pushkin House Music Festival 2021 that took place online 2-14 March opened our eyes and ears to a repertoire of Russian chamber music rarely performed outside conservatories, if at all. The festival is the brainchild of the Russian pianist and Pushkin House Music Director, Alexander Karpeyev, and is the second in as many years. Comprising six concerts recorded at the Pushkin House in London and two lectures, the festival mixed remarkable performances with fascinating insights on music spanning the early 19th-century to the present from Karpeyev, Philip Ross Bullock (Professor of Russian Literature and Music at the University of Oxford), and the pianist Thomas Ang. Professor Bullock’s engaging remarks about 19th-century Russian salon culture, enhanced by Karpeyev’s insightful musical commentary, drew us in while Ang took us to ‘a new place’. Read more on our website (link in bio) by Julie Anne Sadie Goode.

@pushkinhouselondon #musicfestival #pushkinhouse #russiansinlondon #chambermusic #chamberorchestra #festivalreview #newarticle #onlineconcert #onlinelecture #musicperformance #artandculture #russianculture #russianmusic #classicalmusic

In an #interview by #art patron and #collector Vic

In an #interview by #art patron and #collector Victoria Yanakova @victoriayanakova arranged exclusively for The #Russian Week in London – #Festival #Maslenitsa 2021 organised by Ensemble Productions @ensembleproductions, Zelfira Tregulova, Director of the #Tretyakov Gallery @tretyakov_gallery spoke about the importance of the museum’s international #exhibition program, how the situation in the world has affected it, and the importance of cultural cooperation with the UK. Did you miss our article covering the conversation? Find it via the link in our bio on the main page ✨

#третьяковка #фестиваль #масленица #culturalaffairs #artandculture #russianart #galleriesandmuseums #museumsandgalleries #newinterview #inconversation #artnews #russiansintheuk #internationalprogram #culturalprogram #crossculturalexchange

Did you miss our new contributor, Lefteris Makedon

Did you miss our new contributor, Lefteris Makedonas’s review of two Soviet sci-fi movies screened during the 61st Thessaloniki International Film Festival @filmfestivalgr in 2020? He shares the first one on well-known “Kin-dza-dza!” (1986) by Georgiy Daneliya. Read more via the link in our bio!

#kindzadza #filmscreening #thesaloniki #scifi #thessaloniki #filmfestival #daneliya #sovietfilm #filmreview

Southbank Centre @southbankcentre presents a serie

Southbank Centre @southbankcentre presents a series of #concerts broadcast online. On 1 April 2021 the #Philharmonia #Orchestra brings us #Tchaikovsky’s turbulent #Piano #Concerto No.1 and Sibelius’ theatrical King Christian II Suite in a broadcast #performance. Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra with Rory Macdonald as conductor and Pavel #Kolesnikov, piano.

Read more about the event in our latest article (link to our website in the bio).

#onlineconcert #streamlive #philarmonicorchestra #pianoperformance #liveconcert #онлайнконцерт #филармония #пианист #онлайнконцерт #виртуальныйконцерт #смотретьонлайн #чайковский

🔊@olgajegunova’s second episode of #talkingmu

🔊@olgajegunova’s second episode of #talkingmusic is out tomorrow! Here’s a sneak peek of their conversation with @vladimir_jurowski 🎧

#poscast #newepisode #newpodcast #classicalmusic #conducting #composition #russianmusic #newinterview #interview #musician #inconversation

@lolszowska’s latest Kusochek episode is now ava

@lolszowska’s latest Kusochek episode is now available! She speaks to @denis_stlr about Soviet art, @courtauld and the post corona landscape. Find it now via the links in our bio ✨

#postcorona #postcovid #artaftercovid19 #fineart #sovietart #postsoviet #postsovietart #courtauld #courtauldinstituteofart #phd #postpandemic #contemporaryart #interview #curator #kusochek #newpodcast #artschool

Puhskin House @pushkinhouselondon presents a new p

Puhskin House @pushkinhouselondon presents a new play by Anita Brokmeier and Anna Clart about the forgotten female voices and lived experiences Tolstoy co-opted for “Anna Karenina” – performed live on Saturday, 20 March 2021. More in our latest article ✨

#pushkinhouse #pushkin #annakarenina #tolstoy #liveplay #liveperformance #musicfestival #classicalmusic #russianliterature

At a time when our access to art in #museums is li

At a time when our access to art in #museums is limited, the Museum of Modern Art’s @themuseumofmodernart #exhibition ‘Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918-1939’ showcases works that were ironically meant to be seen not within the rarefied space of a #gallery but in the midst of the crowded #metropolitan street.

Celebrating as it does as generation of #artists committed to reinventing their relationship with the #public at large, this is certainly a display that deserves to be ‘seen’, in whatever capacity we can do so. Read more in our latest article (link in bio).

#russianfineart #ussrart #ussr #russianart #sovietart #moma #советскоеискусство #конструктивизм #constructivism #sovietposter #russianart #engineer

Happy Women’s Day! Here are some of our favourit

Happy Women’s Day! Here are some of our favourite #female #artists: Natalia #Goncharova, Lyubov #Popova and Vera #Mukhina. What are yours?

#goncharova #popova #sovietart #mukhina #russianfineart #constructivism #femaleartist #internationalwomensday #celebratewomen #femalecreatives #russianwomen #восьмоемарта #художница #женщиныхудожницы #живопись

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