Coming Up · Moscow

On the eve of the long holiday weekend, as is customary, I recommend the following theatrical events and concerts in Moscow

📌 29 April, 19:00 Beethoven's great piano sonatas will be heard in the Great Hall of the Conservatoire, performed by Dmitry Katrin and Kirill Kashunin. 📌 29 April, 19:00 The concert "A Journey through the Russian Avant-Garde" will take place in the Small Concert Hall

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Artem Lyapin's exhibition of lace fairy-tale characters opens at Lobby Moscow

A cosy exhibition, as is always the case at Lobby Moscow, has opened: the work of Artem Lyapin, an artist of the Flor et Lavr gallery. The show is called “I Think This Love Will Last Forever”. Artem works with metal, textiles and painting, and uses such techniques as cyanotype,

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What to Visit in Moscow Right Now?

What is worth visiting in Moscow right now? The Museum of Moscow has opened a remarkable, very large and capacious exhibition, rich in allusions: “Moskvichka. Women of the Soviet Capital in the 1920s and 1930s”. The museum's team spent a year and a half preparing the project, and

Coming Up · The East · Moscow · Education

Lectures in Moscow from 26 April to 2 May on Turgenev, Djenné and the Tretyakov Gallery

Which lectures to attend? If you are asking yourself this question and are in search of intellectual leisure, I advise you to look closely at the forthcoming events in Moscow. 🧩26 April at 10:00 International conference “The USA and the Changing Balance of Power in the Asia-Pacific Region”

Moscow · Museums · Observations · People

If, like me, you spent years riding the “Bukashka” along the Garden Ring and, hearing the announcement of the stop “Chekhov House-Museum”, thought: “The Chekhov museum, I really must go in”, then right now, for example, there is a curious exhibition there

Thanks to the exhibition, which has the witty title “I Have No Better Photograph”, I learned that Anton Pavlovich was very fond of being photographed. True, he was not particularly inclined to change his pose. There are dozens of pictures taken many years apart in which he sits literally in

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The pen with which Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard

The pen with which Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard. Chekhov House Museum, Moscow

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage

New Stage of Reconstruction Begins on Foreign Ministry Skyscraper on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow

Moscow City Hall has announced a new stage in the reconstruction of one of the seven famous Stalinist high-rises, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building on Smolenskaya Square. The façades of the central tower and of the 16-storey wings will be cleaned, the roof repaired and the plinth

Coming Up · Moscow

Concerts and theatre performances in Moscow from 26 April to 2 May

On the eve of the weekend, I am publishing a list of theatrical events and concerts for the coming week. 26 April, 20:00 Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A minor at the Zaryadye Concert Hall, performed by the Moscow Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Dimitris

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Which Lectures to Attend?

Which lectures to attend? If you are asking yourself this question and are in search of some intellectual leisure, I suggest casting an eye over the forthcoming events in Moscow. 🧩20 April, 12:00 Lecture “Anticipating Easter. The Raising of Lazarus and the Entry into Jerusalem”. Lecture hall of the

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Valery Alexandrovich Dudakov, one of the oldest and most authoritative collectors in Russia, who stood at the origins of the Collectors' Club of the Soviet Culture Foundation, created in 1987 on the basis of the country's largest private collections, show

Dudakov is showing paintings by precisely those artists with whom his collection began in 1970: Vladimir Nemukhin, Nikolai Vechtomov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Oskar Rabin, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Weisberg, Mikhail Shvartsman, Yuli Sooster. Valery Alexandrovich knew the generation of the nonconformist "men of the sixties" personally and was friends with

Coming Up · Books · Moscow

The Russian State Library to hold Biblionight at the Pashkov House

On 20 April, Russia's libraries will hold the 13th Library Night. The Lenin Library will, as is its custom, throw open its doors; this time the Russian State Library invites guests to Pashkov House, where the speakers will include Tatyana Tolstaya, Robert Garayev, Alexander Tsypkin, the actors Leonid

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Exhibition “Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel” on Zoya Boguslavskaya at the Voznesensky Center

The exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre is remarkably cohesive, although it embraces so many different incarnations of Zoya Borisovna: science, journalism, literature, civic engagement, art, all the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, the stories of the great figures who became part of her