Culture and art

One day, when I was passing by the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, I saw an advertising stand displaying exhibitions held there. “Such place cannot host a bad event”, –

The summer classical music festival opened in the Swiss city of Lucerne, located on the shore of lake Lucerne, at the foot of mount Pilatus, in front of Wagner’s Villa.

Russia submitted a revised draft of the Museum on Solovki in the court of UNESCO, announced the Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky at a meeting on the preservation and development of the Solovki archipelago

For the first time “Movie Night” campaign will be held in Russia on August 27, 2016, on the Day of Russian cinema. The program of the event consists of free screenings, creative meetings and concerts.

Applications for all-Russia competition of ballet dancers and choreographers are accepted till 01 Oct 2016. The contest will be held on 30 October – 04 November 2016 in Moscow, the Moscow State Academic Children’

An exhibition of documents after D. S. Merezhkovsky and V. F. Khodasevich “Writers of the Silver age: Merezhkovsky and Khodasevich” is held on 17 August – 10 September 2016 in the Rumyantsev

On August 11 2016, an AlterEgo string band held a concert of the Viennese music from the series “Remembrance of Things Past “. The performance hall was situated on the territory of Christ the

Keep your mind in hell and despair not. Saint Silouan From 20 to 31 August 2016 parishioners of Holy spirit Cathedral in Minsk will be able to venerate the relics of St. ven. Silouan.

From 12 August until 24 September 2016 the Triennale of Ruhr, Germany (Ruhrtriennale) will be held. The Ruhrtriennale will present 200 performances of some 40 productions, including 32 original and co-productions

On August 25, 2016 at 19:00 in the Museum of Russian impressionism will take place lecture of the largest collector of Russian avant-garde Valery Dudakov. He will tell about the time when he gathered his

In 2016-2017 at the Library of foreign literature named. M. I. Rudomino, in partnership with the Forum of Slavic cultures (Ljubljana) will open the Center for Slavic cultures.

On August 04, 2016 the Museum of Moscow held opening of exhibition named “the ABC of the museum”. The event reflects the desire of the Museum to impress the new interactive generation and to

25 Aug 2016 19:00 Grand Symphony orchestra after Tchaikovsky will be performing the music from the movies in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Conductor is Denis Lotoev.

The play “Running”, based on the play by M. A. Bulgakov, was first staged in December 2015. Since then it became one of the favorite productions of the Theater “Commonwealth Taganka Actors”

In Moscow, at the Tretyakov gallery on Krymsky Val, the exhibition of Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) is held. It opened on 29 July 2016, exactly 1 year to the 200 anniversary from the birthday of the artist