Culture and art

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

On July 28, 2016 in the Greek courtyard of the State Museum of Fine Arts after Pushkin was opened an exhibition of Leon Steinmetz “The spell of antiquity”. It will last until 18 September 2016.

The Russian government encouraged three major theatrical figures of Russia for the contribution to development of theatrical art in 2016.

On June 21-23, 2016 the premiere of “Pagliacci” by R. Leoncavallo (Pagliacci, Ruggero Leoncavallo) took place at Moscow Chamber theater named after B. A. Pokrovsky, which kindly provided its

Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is less known than his famous older brother, a “fantastic painter” Viktor Mikhailovich (“Alyonushka”, “Heroes” etc).

On July 19, 2016, debut of soloistes of Grand Opera with the Russian classical ballet Oksana Usachevahosted was held. On the stage was given the ballet by Ludwig Minkus “don Quixote”

Singers from 7 countries and instrumentalists from 17 cities of Russia will take part in the premiere of two operas “Pagliacci” by R. Leoncavallo and “Eugene Onegin”

Russian State Library in the Blue Exhibition Hall on Vozdvizhenka, 3/5 conducts extremely interesting exhibition of 56 handwritten and 34 early printed books of XVI-XIX centuries, dedicated to the image of St.

“God, rest his soul, your rival” M. Tsvetaeva to Mayakovsky A Russian poet, playwriter, artist and maestro of advertising slogans Vladimir Mayakovsky was born on July 7 (19) 1893 in in Baghdati

Starting from July 18, 2016, State Litterary Museum will change the name to “State Museum of the history of the Russian literature after V. I. Dahl”.

The Memorandum of cooperation between the Uffizi Gallery and the Museum of fine arts. Pushkin was agreed on July 12, 2016 at the Embassy of Italy in Moscow. The Memorandum was signed by the Director of

The Patriarchal Commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood in its statement warns that the new version of article 116 of the criminal code (the “Law prohibiting education”

On July 14, 2016 at the Museum-estate of F. I. Chaliapin (Museum of musical culture after M. I. Glinka) was opened the exhibition “fantastic heritage”, dedicated to the history and the present

62 festival of Giacomo Puccini will begin tomorrow in Italy. It will last from 15 July to 13 August 2016. Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was a composer born in Lucca) in Italy in a musical family.

According to the Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, “Studio of theater art” (STI) Sergey Zhenovach becomes the Federal theatre, that is, it will move to budget financing.