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Thu 17 May 2012 – 7.30pm
Debate
IN FROM THE COLD: THE RISE OF RUSSIAN CAPITALISM edited by Peter Westin
Peter Westin and Andrew Jack
Language: In English
Russia’s transformation from central planning to a market-based economy over the past 20 years must rank as one of the biggest economic stories of our time. Nobody has been as close to this development as Peter Westin. Peter presents this compendium of cutting edge thinking and joins with Pushkin House Chairman Andrew Jack in a lively debate about Russia’s past, present and future as a capitalist economy.
Tickets: admission free
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Tue 22 May 2012 – 7.30pm
Lecture-Screening
An Artist In The Shadows
Vladimir Miller, Irina Porrit
Language: In English
Shot in The Crimea, Paris and England, this one hour film traces the multi-faceted life of the painter, designer and ceramic artist – Mikhail Lattry. Grandson of Russia’s most famous marine artist Ivan Aivazovsky, Lattry became one of the influential founders of the Russian Silver period, alongside Bogaevsky, Voloshin and Tolstoy.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Wed 23 May 2012 – 7.30pm
Screening
Cold Summer of 1953
Kino Kino
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
A group of escaped criminals hides out in the remote wooded area of Siberia in this grim drama set in the summer of 1953. Although Stalin is already dead, the shadow of his oppressive rule still hangs over the country. The gang makes their way to a small village where political prisoners Luzga (Valery Priyemykhov) and Kopalich (Anatoly Papanov) wait to escape by boat.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Thu 24 May 2012 – 2.00pm
Seminar
GW Travel seminar
GW Travel
Language: In English
Marina Linke, Operations Director, will be hosting a fascinating presentation on the company’s history and future touring programmes at Pushkin House. Tim Littler, Founder and President of GW Travel, and Iain Dacre, Managing Director, will be also present during the afternoon to take your individual questions at the conclusion of the presentation. You will meet like-minded travellers, hear about new tours plus our latest special offers, and maybe even find your perfect tour by private train!
Tickets: Free
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Sun 27 May 2012 – 3.00pm
Concert
Jumash Poulsen, violinist
Healthprom
A family concert featuring 19-year-old Kyrgyz-born violinist Jumash Poulsen. He has played with the Aberdeen Chamber Orchestra, has won international competitions (including Osaka) and joined the Silk Road Ensemble of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma, performing at the Proms in 2010. The concert will raise funds for the UK-registered charity, HealthProm.
Tickets: £15, conc. £10
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Mon 28 May 2012 – 7.00pm
Lecture/Talk
Evening with Vadim Fadin
Vadim Fadin
Language: In Russian
The poet and novelist Vadim Fadin will talk about his literary works, about Russian writers who live in Germany and will present his new books: the collection of poems “Drowned memory” and the romance “Snow for sale in the south”. Fadin will read his poems and extracts of prose.
Tickets: Free
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Tue 29 May 2012 – 6.30pm
Exhibition
Vulcanus: An Exhibition of Works by Maxim Kantor
Maxim Kantor
opendemocracy Russia
Language: In English
Maxim Kantor’s pictures, novels and plays continue the great tradition of Russia’s intelligentsia. Through them he interrogates power from the perspective of the powerless. Once a precocious critic of the Soviet establishment, since the fall of communism he has turned his critique of the Western dream of democracy and freedom.
Tickets: Admission Free
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Tue 29 May 2012 – 7.30pm
Lecture/Talk
VARLAM SHALAMOV - PROSE & POETRY
Robert Chandler and Sarah Young
Pushkin Club
Language: In English
The poet Robert Chandler and Dr Sarah Young meet to speak about the poetry and prose of the prominent Russian writer Varlam Shalamov. Varlam made a significant contribution to Russian literature in a tough period of the totalitarianism. A political prisoner for seventeen years, Varlam Shalamov survived in the deadliest of Stalin’s camps and preserved an inner strength so great, it enabled him to turn the bottom of life he had hit into an art of the first order.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5
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Wed 30 May 2012 – 7.30pm
Screening
I am Twenty
Kino Kino
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
One of the most significant films of 1961, when it was completed under the title Zastava Il’icha, it was not released until 1965, and then in a truncated form. The film follows the maturation of three friends after one of them returns from his two-year army service.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)
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Thu 31 May 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
‘Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’ Tom Bullough
Tom Bullough
GB Russia Society
Language: In English
Moving from wolfinfested forests to the brothels of Moscow, from the confines of village life to the wonders of the Age of Steam, from appalling tragedy to the discovery of a great love, Konstantin, Tom Bullough’s brilliant, inspirational novel, tells the extraordinary story, based on a real-life character, of the first man to reveal how travel into space is possible.
TO BOOK FOR THIS TALK PLEASE EMAIL membership@gbrussia.org
Tickets: £5
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Fri 1 June 2012 – 7.30pm
An Evening with Boris Grebenshikov
Language: In Russian
The great singer-songwriter is coming back to Pushkin House! Boris Grebenshikov will sing, play and talk about his artistic life. PLEASE BOOK TICKETS IN ADVANCE TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT – THERE WILL BE NO TICKETS AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR
Tickets: £25
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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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Mon 11 June 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
’A Moscow For All Seasons’ Phoebe Taplin
Phoebe Taplin
GB Russia Society
Language: In English
Phoebe Taplin is a British freelance journalist. She spent five years exploring Moscow and the surrounding countryside. With this talk and a slideshow, Phoebe Taplin will share a few of the 200 walks she led and wrote while in Moscow, including urban strolls, forest hikes and easy day trips from the city.
Tickets: £5
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Tue 12 June 2012 – 7.30pm
Talk
Theatre in Russian Prisons - A talk by director Alex Dower
Alex Dower
Language: In English
A remarkable theatre project in Perm’s Prison Colony 29 in 2009 marked a watershed in the development of artistic rehabilitative programmes in Russian prisons, and in September this year Alex is returning to work in a prison for teenage girls in Ryazan.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5
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Tue 12 June 2012 – 7.30pm
Screening
BELARUS STORY and FANTOMAS UNMASKED films screening
Language: In Russian
The screening of renowned and scandalous NOMfilm studio films BELARUS STORY and FANTOMAS UNMASKED
Tickets: £7, conc. £5
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Thu 14 June 2012 – 10.00am
Exhibition
Kopeikin Meets London
Nikolay Kopeikin/Edward Lucie-Smith
London Collectors Club
Language: In English
This exhibition of renowned Russian artist Nikolay Kopeikin is organised by the London Collectors Club. The artist visits London in our Olympic year; his works will include a new series about the legendary 19th century Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Kopeikin’s humour is international and reflects the artist’s increasing interest in the world outside Russia.
Tickets: Admission Free
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Tue 19 June 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
Madame Ida
Naomi Sorkin, Lisa Forrell
Language: In English
Ida Rubinstein was a dazzling star of the Ballets Russes, and one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary figures. Our film is the story of the last day of her life, of her dream to dance like Pavlova, and of the treacherous conspiracy that surrounded her.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5
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Tue 26 June 2012 – 7.00pm
Talk
’The Zemstva Postal Stamps of Imperial Russia’ Ian Roberts
Ian Roberts
Language: In English
This talk will begin with an account of the setting up of the zemstva postal services which began to issue postage stamps from the mid-1860s until the Russian Revolutions of 1917. It will continue with an account of the gradual development of the services which included varying methods of production of the stamps, and it will be illustrated by a selection of some of the stamps and the use made of them.
Tickets: £5
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Tue 26 June 2012 – 7.30pm
Performance
Vladimir Nabokov's The Tragedy of Mister Morn
AT PUSHKIN HOUSE
PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME
Language: In English
A play by one the 20th century’s greatest authors published in English for the first time! Come to Pushkin House and hear it in a brand new translation for Penguin by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy. Holly Maples directs the rehearsed reading. There are performances at Pushkin House on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 June 2012.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House and Concessions)
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Wed 27 June 2012 – 7.30pm
Vladimir Nabokov's The Tragedy of Mister Morn: 2nd Reading
AT PUSHKIN HOUSE
A play by one the 20th century’s greatest authors published in English for the first time! Come to Pushkin House and hear it in a brand new translation for Penguin by Thomas Karshan and Anastasia Tolstoy. Holly Maples directs the rehearsed reading. There are performances at Pushkin House on Tuesday 26 and Wednesday 27 June 2012.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House and Concessions)
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Thu 5 July 2012 – 7.30pm
CHAPOLOGY by WORSTED
Paul Gunn/Vladimir Miller
WORSTED
Language: In English
Pianist Vladimir Miller and his band join vocalist Paul Gunn to present CHAPOLOGY, a collection of charming songs of etiquette in the English eccentric tradition.
Tickets: £10, conc. £8 (Friends of Pushkin House and Concessions)
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