Upcoming

Talk by Anne Applebaum

Anne Applebaum’s new book 'Iron Curtain' is a brilliant and compelling history of a brutal period in European history. It describes how - through a process of systematic Stalinisation - communist regimes were established in the countries of  Eastern Europe within a remarkably short period after the end of World War II. The book is a haunting reminder of how fragile free societies are, and how vulnerable they can be to attack by unscrupulous enemies using totalitarian methods.

On the Harmfulness of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov and The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin performed by Philip Lowrie

The distinguished actor Philip Lowrie, plays the hapless and hen-pecked Ivan Ivanovich Nyukhin in Chekhov's one-act play, in which a man is compelled by his domineering wife to deliver a lecture, at the end of which we have learned far more about im than about the subject of the evils of smoking!

Lecture by Richard Pare

Richard Pare is an internationally renowned British photographer, who has been researching  Russia architecture for the last twenty years. His work focuses is Russian Constructivism in its relation to contemporary urbanism. He will speak about the fate of avant-garde in Russian architecture, including the predicaments for constructivist architects  after 1932.

A talk by Dr Natalia Murray

Language: In English

Natalia’s biography of Nikolay Punin, The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde. The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953), was published by Brill Academic Publishers in June 2012, and was launched at the CCRAC conference Russian Culture in Exile.1921-1953, organised by Natalia and Maria Kokkori on 2-3 November 2012 at the Courtauld.

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The Black Russian is both the extraordinary story of the most unexpected of heroes, and a tour of the changing political and cultural landscape of the early twentieth century.