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The 8th “Tolstoy” Theatre Festival at Yasnaya Polyana featured more than 100 events
This weekend the Yasnaya Polyana estate-museum hosted a major cultural event: the eighth "Tolstoy" theatre festival. More than a hundred events took place at 13 open-air venues: plays, concerts, film screenings, lectures, promenade performances and workshops. Now that the sounds of theatre, classical music and cinema
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Sergey Ryazansky and Vyacheslav Dubynin on space and the brain at an Ultima Yandex Go event
In what do earthworms surpass the most advanced neural networks? Is humanity ready for long space journeys? What is the difference between the male and the female brain? This rather unexpected set of questions was discussed yesterday, under the attentive moderation of Kira Altman, at the first event of the
Art · Observations · Reportage
Five installations at the festival in Kazan, where artists occupied 17 locations
I want to share the five most beautiful and, in my view, most significant art objects of the independent NUR International Media Art Festival, held in Kazan from 24 to 26 May, incidentally for the fourth time already. A great many artists gathered, spread over 17 locations, so there was
Books · Observations · Reportage · Society Pages
First Russian Translation of Henry James’s “The Other House” Presented in Peredelkino
Wondering what was so mysteriously Victorian going on in Peredelkino yesterday? Conversations in hammocks, prose readings in garden pavilions, impassioned speeches by gentlemen beneath century-old pines, photographs taken with an antique mirror camera… Let me tell you. Bookmate and the Peredelkino Writers' House presented the first translation of
Archaeology · Books · Moscow · Science · Reportage · Ethnography
Eight-volume Academic History of Yugra, written by 130 scholars, presented at VDNKh
A publication unique in Russian historical scholarship has been presented at VDNKh: the Academic History of Yugra in eight volumes. It is the first project of its kind in Russia: a comprehensive study of the region's history, from the era of its settlement 18,000 to 16,000
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Queue for the Mark Rothko exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, with online booking
The queue at the Fondation Louis Vuitton for the Mark Rothko exhibition. On the right, those with tickets booked online; on the left, those without
NB! · Monarchies · Society · Reportage
People listen to the Prime Minister of Denmark proclaiming, from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, Frederik as King of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
People listen to the Prime Minister of Denmark proclaiming, from the balcony of Christiansborg Palace, Frederik as King of Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The phrase “Long live King Frederik the Tenth!” is pronounced three times.
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In a world after some irreversible catastrophe, only one Oleg Kikimora remains: a thinker shaped like a bun, wrinkled as a dried fig, who lives in a deadly bog and arranges his existence under the dictatorship of aggressive flora and…
To keep boredom at bay, Oleg Kikimora sets up his own radio station, SPGS, and with his broadcasts shatters the silence of a nature reserve in hiding, lit only by smoky skies and the occasional saluting meteorite. The radio's programme consists of conversations with subscribers, for instance an
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This is how the Russian Antiques Salon 2023 is going
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John Neumeier stages a Bolshoi Theatre ballet at the Tolstoy festival in Yasnaya Polyana
The main event of the theatrical season may be considered accomplished. Yesterday, at the “Tolstoy” theatre festival in Yasnaya Polyana, a ballet of extraordinary difficulty from the Bolshoi Theatre's repertoire was staged. The stage was erected in a field on the grounds of the Tolstoy estate. Three hours
Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture · Reportage
Interactive exhibition “Punk Culture. Korol i Shut” opens at Vinzavod
A large-scale exhibition, “Punk Culture. Korol i Shut”, has opened at Winzavod. The display fills two halls and is divided into two parts: the first is about the birth of punk culture in the world (including several curious exhibits brought from private collections in London), the second is about