Wed 18 January 2012 – 4.00pm
Exhibition
Dictionary Of An Artist | The Drawings Of Viktor Pivovarov
Exhibition is open to the public from Wednesday 18 January until Thursday 9 Feb 2012, 4pm to 7pm, Monday to Friday
Tickets: admission free
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Sun 5 February 2012 – 3.00pm
Concert
The Drawing Room Orchestra
CONVERSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH KARL LUTCHMAYER
Language: In English
Following the success of their sell-out performance in 2009 of the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony in the stunning arrangement by his pupil, Taneyev, Karl and David return to perform his even more emotionally charged Fifth Symphony.
Tickets: £15, conc. £12 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Tue 7 February 2012 – 7.30pm
Talk
Shostakovich and Weinberg – a Dialogue
PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME
Language: In English
Polish-born, Moscow-domiciled composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) has recently hit the headlines with productions of his Auschwitz-based opera The Passenger. This talk will examine his output and career, focusing on his personal and musical relationship with his friend and mentor Dmitry Shostakovich.
Tickets: 7, conc. 5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Wed 8 February 2012 – 7.15pm
Lecture-Screening
The Intervention
RUSSIAN HISTORY IN FILM SERIES
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
Comedy| Russia | 1967 – 1988 | 1h47m | dir G.Poloka with V.Vysotsky, E.Kopelyan, S.Yursky, O.Aroseva, V.Zolotukhin, M.Khutsiev. This adaptation of Lev Slavin’s play was notable for its humorous treatment of the Russian Civil War
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Wed 15 February 2012 – 7.00pm
Lecture/Talk
Three Capitals: Kiev - Moscow - St.Petersburg
Discover the three most amazing cities of Russia and the Ukraine. From the lavishness of Moscow to the aristocratic beauty of St. Petersburg, and to the authentic beauty of Kiev with its golden-domed churches.
Tickets: admission free
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Wed 15 February 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
Travels Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus
by Oliver Bullough
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Language: In English
Oliver Bullough travelled in a dozen countries, meeting residents of and refugees from the Caucasus Mountains, to research his book Let Our Fame be Great.
Tickets: £5
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Tue 21 February 2012 – 7.30pm
Talk
Boris Pasternak: The Family Correspondence
PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME
Language: In English
In 1921 Pasternak’s parents and his two sisters left Soviet Russia for Germany; in 1936-8 they moved to England to escape Nazi persecution. For almost forty years, until Boris’s death in 1960, he kept up an intense, intimate correspondence with his family abroad, and this has now been translated by Pasternak’s nephew Nicolas Pasternak Slater.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Wed 22 February 2012 – 7.15pm
Lecture-Screening
The Commissar
RUSSIAN HISTORY IN FILM SERIES
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
USSR | 1967 | 110 min | Director Aleksandr Askoldov | Cast Nonna Mordyukova, Rolan Bykov, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Lyudmila Volynskaya, and Vasili Shukshin | Music Alfred Schnittke
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Thu 23 February 2012 – 7.30pm
Discussion
The Art Community as Territory of Freedom in Russia: Evolution from "The Wanderers" to "The War" Group
TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES
Language: In English
Panel Discussion. Since the emergence of the Realists in the 1860’s, avant-garde artists in Russia have been seeking independence as well as mechanisms for operating in society that were more up-to-date then those provided by existing art institutions.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Sun 26 February 2012 – 11.00am
Workshop
Maslenitsa Singing Workshop with Polina Proutskova
Would you like to learn about traditional Russian Shrovetide? To have an opportunity to sing Maslenitsa songs yourself, to drive away the Winter and to call for the Spring to come? Then join us at London’s first Maslenitsa singing workshop.
Tickets: £25, conc. £20 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Wed 29 February 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
Peeping Through the Iron Curtain: Travellers’ Accounts of the Soviet Union and Russia during and after the Cold War
by Professor Chris Read
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Language: In English
From the sixteenth century the British imagination has been stirred by travellers’ accounts of visits to Russia. Even so, for successive generations, Russia has remained mysterious, supposedly impenetrable and unknown.
Tickets: £5
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Wed 14 March 2012 – 7.00pm
Lecture/Talk
Elbrus - The Highest Mountain in Europe
In association with Go Russia
Language: In English
No, they are not “the Alps”! The highest and most unique in mineral resources, relief, flora and fauna in Europe are the mountains of the Big Caucasus. They include five peaks of over 5,000 meters above sea level.
Tickets: admission is free, but booking is necessary
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Wed 14 March 2012 – 7.30pm
Lecture/Talk
Red Harvest: What Russia's Famines Taught us about the Living World
RUSSIA'S OTHER CULTURE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY in association with RBCC
Language: In English
After the civil war, the Bolsheviks turned to the revolutionary science of genetics for help in securing the Soviet food supply. The young Soviet Union became a world leader in genetics and shared its knowledge with Germany.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Thu 15 March 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
The Last Day of the Soviet Union
by Conor O'Clery
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Language: In English
The Soviet Union came to an end on December 25th 1991, with the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev, the transfer of the nuclear suitcase to the president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, and the
lowering of the Red Flag from the Kremlin.
Tickets: £5
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Thu 22 March 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
Stalin’s Legacy – How the Soviet Union Waged War on Nature
by Struan Stevenson
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Language: In Russian
‘Stalin’s Legacy’ details how Josef Stalin and his immediate successors waged war on Mother Nature, viewing it as something that needed to be controlled and marshalled for economic gain rather than respected and nurtured for human survival.
Tickets: £5
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Thu 22 March 2012 – 7.30pm
Discussion
Utopias of the Russian Avant-garde
TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES
Language: In English
Panel discussion. John Milner, Professor at the Courtauld Institute.
Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Curator at the Tate Modern. Dr. Maria Kokkori, Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute. Chaired by Dr. Robin Aizlewood, Director of UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Sun 1 April 2012 – 3.00pm
Concert
The Smile of the Wise Man | A Busoni Birthday Concert
CONVERSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH KARL LUTCHMAYER
Language: In English
Busoni is perhaps best known for his earlier works such as the Bach Chaconne transcription and the Concerto – not least to Conversational Concerts audience because of Karl’s performances!
Tickets: £15, conc. £12 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Thu 12 April 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
Inside Russia: A Correspondent’s Personal Notes
by Bridget Kendall
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
The BBC’s Bridget Kendall is probably best known for her reporting from Moscow at the end of the perestroika era, when as BBC Moscow correspondent as she charted the Soviet Union’s collapse, the failed coup of 1991 and the emergence of a new Russia under Boris Yeltsin.
Tickets: £5
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Thu 19 April 2012 – 7.30pm
Lecture/Talk
Friends and Foes of Artistic Change: Destalinisation in the Soviet Art World in the 1950s and 1960s
by Susan E. Reid
TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES
Language: In English
To the last days of the Soviet Union, conservative aestheticians and art functionaries vigorously resisted any attempt to revise the conception of Socialist Realism or to sanction an ecumenical concept of what they disparagingly called “realism as a rubber sack”.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Tue 24 April 2012 – 7.00pm
Lecture/Talk
Trans-Siberian Railroad - Epic Journey
In association with Go Russia
Language: In English
It is the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway which holds the vast territory of Siberia together. The actual length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, or simply TransSib, from Moscow to Vladivostok, is over 9,288 kilometres, covering nearly all Eurasia.
Tickets: admission is free, but booking is necessary
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Wed 25 April 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
The Siege of Leningrad: A New Perspective from Personal Diaries
by Anna Reid
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Language: In English
‘28 December 1941 at 12.30 pm – Zhenya died. 25 January 1942 at 3pm – Granny died. 17 March at 5am – Lyoka died. 13 April at 2am – Uncle Vasya died. 10 May at 4pm – Uncle Lyosha died. 13 May at 7.30 am – Mama died. The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left.’
Tickets: £5
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Thu 10 May 2012 – 6.00pm
Discussion
Art and Political Activism in Russia Today: Art in The Absence of Civil Institutions
TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES
Language: In English
Over the last decade, a number of artists have succeeded in both realising and finding the theoretical grounding for a variety of works, which allows us to speak of a new situation in art. THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE ART AND DESIGN
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Wed 16 May 2012 – 7.00pm
Lecture/Talk
Three Capitals: Kiev - Moscow - St.Petersburg
In association with Go Russia
Language: In English
Discover the three most amazing cities of Russia and the Ukraine. From the lavishness of Moscow to the aristocratic beauty of St. Petersburg, and to the authentic beauty of Kiev with its golden-domed churches.
Tickets: admission is free, but booking is necessary
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Wed 16 May 2012 – 7.30pm
Lecture/Talk
"General Healthification": Russia's Unsung Sciences of the Mind
RUSSIA'S OTHER CULTURE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY in association with RBCC
Language: In English
The way we teach and care for our children owes much to a handful of largely forgotten Russian pioneers. Years after their deaths, the psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein, the psychologist Lev Vygotsky and the pioneering neuroscientist Alexander Luria have an unseen influence over our everyday thinking.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Sun 10 June 2012 – 3.00pm
Concert
In the Shadow of Beethoven
CONVERSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH KARL LUTCHMAYER
Language: In English
To the Romantic mind Beethoven’s shadow was a constant presence, demanding wholly new approaches to composition.
Tickets: £15, conc. £12 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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