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Whispers and Screams of Edvard Munch: a large retrospective opened at the State Tretyakov Gallery

20:08 22.04.2019 Elena Rubinova

Whispers and Screams of Edvard Munch: a large retrospective opened at the State Tretyakov Gallery

Dance of Life, 1925.Munch Museum, Oslo The State Tretyakov Gallery presents a long-anticipated retrospectiveby the world-famous Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, the founder of expressionism in European painting. The scope of the show is unprecedented: the exposition located at two floors of the Engineering Building includes 64 paintings, 37 graphic works …

Italian tenor Alessandro Safina: “Russians are home-minded, and home is where the warmth is”

14:58 19.04.2019 Sergey Vinogradov

Italian tenor Alessandro Safina: “Russians are home-minded, and home is where the warmth is”

The world famous tenor Alessandro Safina recorded “Blue Eternity”, a song by Muslim Magomayev, in Italian, turning it into an international hit. 1.5 million Internet users watched the music in three weeks. Comments of admiration were left in Russian, Italian, English, Turkish and many other languages. The tenor, who performed …

Salzburg Festival 2019 to Hit Another Russian Season

13:21 02.04.2019 Elena Rubinova

Salzburg Festival 2019 to Hit Another Russian Season

Every summer, guests and music aficionados from more than 80 countries around the globe flock to the Austrian city of Salzburg to experience the best that the opera and drama world have to offer, alongside a legendary concert programme. In the summer of 2019, over the course of five weeks …

The festival of social cinema will be held in April in Moscow and Vladimir region

12:35 01.04.2019

The festival of social cinema will be held in April in Moscow and Vladimir region

An open film festival of charitable Foundation Sheredar invites young directors.Charity Fund for the rehabilitation of children with serious diseases "Sheredar" in April for the fourth time will hold a festival of film, video and television works on socially important topics. The peculiarity of the film forum "Sheredar" is that …

Lessons of history

12:37 28.03.2019 Katerina Gotta

Lessons of history

On March 20, 2019 in Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad the guests from St. Petersburg were received. For the presentation of the reprint edition of the book by A.P.Polovtsov “A brief biography of Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Maria Feodorovna”, Igor Vitalevich Kozyr, Editor-in-chief of the Maritime Heritage magazine, publisher, …

Unique K. from ‘K und K’

15:59 25.03.2019 Sofi B.

Unique K. from ‘K und K’

„Schmelztiegel Wien” – this is a term usually used in the socio-cultural studies to describe the shiny and glamorous capital of a vast Habsburg empire (known as K und K), today’s seat of the Republic of Austria, Vienna. Inspired by the past and present meanings of its colours shapes rhythms …

Culture – essential cohesive force in our society, interview with Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen

15:54 25.03.2019

Culture – essential cohesive force in our society, interview with Camilla Habsburg-Lothringen

Nowadays, institutions are too quickly turning to culture and identity to explain politics, especially at election times. As simple and convenient as it seems, it is not as accurate as such. All across Europe, the governments failed at distributive justice, not on culture or behavioural recognition.We are discussing these highly …

Museum Partnership Brings “Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the School of London’’ to Moscow

12:20 11.03.2019 Elena Rubinova

Museum Partnership Brings “Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the School of London’’ to Moscow

The exhibition “Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the School of London’’ that opened at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow last week, has all chances to become a serious crowd-puller. For the first time, the Russian public has an opportunity to get acquainted with a unique and very …

Tobolsk - the heart of Siberia

10:12 04.03.2019

Tobolsk - the heart of Siberia

Tobolsk is one of the oldest cities in the Urals and Siberia, the birthplace of many famous people, including the chemist Dmitry Mendeleyev, painter Vasily Perov, composer Alexander Alyabyev and many others. It is also the place where Decembrists Ivan Annenkov, Wilhelm Kuchelbecker, Alexander Muravyov, Mikhail Fonvizin, as well as …

“Opening Russia-2019” Art Symposium Brings Indians and Russians Closer

21:34 26.02.2019

“Opening Russia-2019” Art Symposium Brings Indians and Russians Closer

While ties between India and Russia continue to scale newer heights following an informal summit last year, more and more Indians are being exposed to rich Russian culture. The spacious exhibition halls of Lalit Kala Akademi in Kota (Rajasthan) was the last venue hosting a moving art symposium “Opening Russia-2019”, …

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