Pushkin House: Календарь

Вс 5 Февраль 2012 – 3.00pm
Концерт
The Drawing Room Orchestra
CONVERSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH KARL LUTCHMAYER
Язык: английский

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.

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Вт 7 Февраль 2012 – 7.30pm
Встреча-рассказ
Shostakovich and Weinberg – a Dialogue
PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME
Язык: английский

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.

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Ср 8 Февраль 2012 – 7.15pm
Лекция-показ
The Intervention
RUSSIAN HISTORY IN FILM SERIES
Язык: русский с английскими субтитрами

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

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Ср 15 Февраль 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
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.

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Ср 15 Февраль 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
Travels Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus
by Oliver Bullough
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Язык: английский

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.

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Вт 21 Февраль 2012 – 7.30pm
Встреча-рассказ
Boris Pasternak: The Family Correspondence
PUSHKIN CLUB PROGRAMME
Язык: английский

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.

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Ср 22 Февраль 2012 – 7.15pm
Лекция-показ
The Commissar
RUSSIAN HISTORY IN FILM SERIES
Язык: русский с английскими субтитрами

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Чт 23 Февраль 2012 – 7.30pm
Дискуссия
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
Язык: английский

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.

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Вс 26 Февраль 2012 – 11.00am
Семинар
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.

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Peeping Through the Iron Curtain: Travellers’ Accounts of the Soviet Union and Russia during and after the Cold War

Ср 29 Февраль 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
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
Язык: английский

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.

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Ср 14 Март 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
Elbrus - The Highest Mountain in Europe
In association with Go Russia
Язык: английский

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.

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Ср 14 Март 2012 – 7.30pm
Встреча-рассказ
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 RBCC
Язык: английский

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.

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Чт 15 Март 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
The Last Day of the Soviet Union
by Conor O'Clery
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Язык: английский

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.

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Чт 22 Март 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
Stalin’s Legacy – How the Soviet Union Waged War on Nature
by Struan Stevenson
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Язык: русский

‘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.

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Чт 22 Март 2012 – 7.30pm
Дискуссия
Utopias of the Russian Avant-garde
TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES
Язык: английский

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.

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Вс 1 Апрель 2012 – 3.00pm
Концерт
The Smile of the Wise Man | A Busoni Birthday Concert
CONVERSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH KARL LUTCHMAYER
Язык: английский

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!

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Чт 12 Апрель 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
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.

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Чт 19 Апрель 2012 – 7.30pm
Лекция
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
Язык: английский

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”.

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Вт 24 Апрель 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
Trans-Siberian Railroad - Epic Journey
In association with Go Russia
Язык: английский

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.

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Ср 25 Апрель 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
The Siege of Leningrad: A New Perspective from Personal Diaries
by Anna Reid
GB RUSSIA SOCIETY PROGRAMME
Язык: английский

‘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.’

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Чт 10 Май 2012 – 6.00pm
Дискуссия
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
Язык: английский

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

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Ср 16 Май 2012 – 7.00pm
Встреча-рассказ
Three Capitals: Kiev - Moscow - St.Petersburg
In association with Go Russia
Язык: английский

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Ср 16 Май 2012 – 7.30pm
Встреча-рассказ
"General Healthification": Russia's Unsung Sciences of the Mind
RUSSIA'S OTHER CULTURE: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY in association with RBCC
Язык: английский

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.

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Вс 10 Июнь 2012 – 3.00pm
Концерт
In the Shadow of Beethoven
CONVERSATIONAL CONCERTS WITH KARL LUTCHMAYER
Язык: английский

To the Romantic mind Beethoven’s shadow was a constant presence, demanding wholly new approaches to composition.

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