Wed 1 February 2012
Presentation
Putin, Russia and the West
Language: In English
Advance screening of the concluding BBC episode, “Putin, Russia and the West. New Start”, of the Brook Lapping four-part documentary, followed by a discussion on the film and accompanying book, and the issues they raise.
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Tue 31 January 2012
Lecture/Talk
Call for Sublime: From "Last Day of Pompeii" to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
by Ilia Dorontchenkov
TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES
Language: In English
This lecture covers almost hundred years of Russian art: from its first masterpiece which rejoined provincial Russian school with European Romantic mainstream and was accepted as an important social event in Russia – Carl Briollov’s The Last Day of Pompeii (1833) to the triumphal Drang nach Westen of Russian Modernism – Serge Diaghilev’s Russian Seasons (1910s)
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Mon 30 January 2012
Talk
See No Evil? Labour and the Gulag 1929-31
by Giles Udy
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Language: In English
... Less well-known is the fact that, under the Labour Government of 1929-31, Britain was importing over £300m a year of gulag-cut timber – imports which were allowed to continue unhindered in spite of widespread protests against these and Soviet religious persecution by Conservative politicians and churchmen of all denominations.
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Fri 27 January 2012
Unexpected Discovery: a Prokofiev Premiere
Talk and concert
Language: In English with Russian translation
On the eve of the premiere at the Royal Festival Hall given by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, international experts gather at Pushkin House to discuss the upcoming event: the new, unknown 1961 version of Sergei Prokofiev’s oratorio Ivan the Terrible by Levon Atovmyan, the discovery of its manuscript and the story behind its creation.
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