4 June, 10.30 am, 3.30 pm
MacDougall's Arts
MacDougall’s Russian Art Auction on 4 June 2014 will feature important works by key figures of the Russian avant-garde, including Robert Falk, Pavel Kuznetsov, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova and many others.

Roman Liberov is a documentary filmmaker and animator. He trained at the BBC specializing in documentary filmmaking, where he then worked for six years. Ilfandpetrov forms part of a cycle of animated documentaries about Russian writers, including Yuri Olesha, Joseph Brodsky, Georgi Vladimov, and Sergei Dovlatov.

Shortlist Announced! Many thanks to everyone who entered the Rossica Young Translators Award this year, and to our judges for all their hard work in making the award possible. We are delighted to announce that the shortlist has now been decided! The winner will be announced on the 20th of March, alongside the Rossica Prize, as part of the SLOVO Russian Literature Festival – see here for more information! Running annually since 2009, the Rossica Young Translators Award aims to promote the art of literary translation from Russian into English. Alongside its older sibling, the Rossica Prize, which rewards the best of newly published translations of Russian literature, the Young Translators Award was set up to encourage the next generation of aspiring translators. Passionate and talented translators are essential for the future health of Russian literature and its impact on the English-speaking world, and the RYTA aims to reward the talent of young translators, while inspiring them with a taste of Russia's most exciting new literature. The award now has a global reach, and previous winners and shortlisted entrants have gone on to successful careers as professional translators and editors. Submissions are accepted from entrants up to the age of 24, and consist of a translation of a prose extract from works by Russia's foremost contemporary novelists. Entrants may choose between three extracts, each of around 2,500 words. The winning entry will be awarded a prize of £500. This year's jury includes Dr. Oliver Ready, Professor Donald Rayfield, and Dr. Jamie Rann. All judges work as professional translators and academics in the field of Russian literature. Their experience and expertise are essential to the success of the award, providing the necessary critical judgement for the selection of the winning submission, and also offers an exciting opportunity for young translators to come into contact with their role models. ROSSICA YOUNG TRANSLATORS AWARD 2014 – SHORTLIST Ian Fallon (University of St Andrews), Pepperstein Laura Thomas, (unaffiliated), Shargunov Walker Thompson, (Westminster School), Shargunov Katherine Wood, (unaffiliated), Sakhnovsky

15 January 18.30
Erarta Gallery, London
Make sure not to miss the official launch of Russky London! Coming to the celebrated contemporary art gallery, Erarta, and accompanied by the music of some of London's most talented Russian musicians, the launch will see in the Old New Year in style!

15 January 18.30
Erarta Gallery, London
Make sure not to miss the official launch of Russky London! Coming to the celebrated contemporary art gallery, Erarta, and accompanied by the music of some of London's most talented Russian musicians, the launch will see in the Old New Year in style!

7 June – 1 September
GRAD: Gallery for Russian Arts and Design
3-4a Little Portland Street, London W1W 7JB
See USSR deals with the flipside of Russian propaganda, showing a very different side to the country than we have accepted.

17 May – 29 September
Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6UE
One of the most eagerly anticipated events this summer for the UK art world will be the return of around 60 masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to their former home, Houghton Hall in Norfolk.

6 April – 9 June
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
This series of events and concerts examines how composers under the authoritarian regimes of Stalin and Hitler trod precarious paths between artistic freedom and survival.

31 May – 7 June
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Bonhams, MacDougall’s and more
Russian Art Week is a bi-annual event which takes place in May and November, bringing the best Russian art to London.

The winners of this year’s Innovation Prize for Contemporary Visual Art have been announced! Congratulations to art collective PROVMYZA for winning this year’s coveted ‘Work of Visual Art’ Prize for their operatic production ‘Marevo’ (Mirage), an apocalyptic thriller which deals with the aftermath of a fatal car crash.

‘Frames’ is the latest exhibition from Oleg Kulik, one of Russia’s most internationally celebrated and controversial contemporary artists – now open at Moscow’s Regina Gallery.

5 December, Wednesday, 7.30 pm
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road
Ignite your inner babushka!

22-28 November
The London Russian Film Festival may be over, but another exciting series of events is about to begin. Russian Art Week starts on 22 November and will feature an exciting range of events, exhibitions and auctions >>>

22-28 November
The London Russian Film Festival may be over, but another exciting series of events is about to begin. Russian Art Week starts on 22 November and will feature an exciting range of events, exhibitions and auctions >>>

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Friday, 28 September 2012, 19:00
Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square London
Sergei Parajanov is one of the most daring and visionary directors to emerge from the former Soviet Union. Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky hailed him as a “genius”, “magician” and without doubt “a master”. His unique, explosive cinematic language has no equal in the world of cinema.

Wednesday 26 September 2012, 18:15
Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT London
A deeply personal film, Nostalghia was the first feature film that Tarkovsky made outside the USSR. Suffused with exquisite cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci and music by Beethoven, Wagner, Verdi and Debussy, Nostalghia has been called the most poetic and beautiful of all Tarkovsky's works.

Sunday, 16 September 2012
Riverside Studios, London UK
Breaking on the banks of the Thames for one day only, Russian Wave is a celebration of contemporary Russian culture. Russian Wave will be awash with cinema, literature, theatre, art, music and animation, and much more!

Thursday, 6 September 2012, 18:00
22 Calvert Avenue, N80BU London, UK
The Curator of International Modern Art at Tate Modern will be giving a free tour of Calvert 22's brilliant exhibition of highlights from the Innovation Prize. Book now, don't miss out!

28 July 2012, 6.30pm
The Screening Room, MPC, 127 Wardour Street, London, W1F 0NL
Following An Evening with Andris Liepa, there will be a screening of the mysterious and gracious The Blue God. Andris Liepa's revival of a Ballet Russes performance now a century old reconnects with the golden age under Diaghilev, whilst continuing a tradition of innovation and beautiful dance.

25 July – 16 September 2012
22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP
Calvert 22 presents highlights from the Innovation Prize, the official state award for contemporary visual arts in Russia. Best described as the Turner prize of Russian art, this is the first time art from the Innovation Prize has been shown outside of Russia.

11 June – 11 July 2012
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
This summer, Hayward Gallery transforms into Wide Open School. More than 100 international artists, including Martin Creed, Antony Gormley, Tracey Emin, and Jeremy Deller, will lead classes and give lectures and performances on subjects that inspire them.

Between 1902 and 1904 Ivan Bilibin travelled across Northern Russia drawing and photographing wooden architectural structures. A century later Richard Davies came across Bilibin’s photographs and decided to travel to Russia to find out which churches have survived.

Many congratulations to John Elsworth, who has won the Rossica Translation Award 2012 for his translation of Petersburg by Andrei Bely. The winner of the Rossica Young Translators Award is Gregory Afinogenov for his translation of an extract from S.N.U.F.F by Victor Pelevin.

Many congratulationa to Andrei Smirnov, whose latest film has won, amongst others, the Best Film award at this year's Nika Awards in Moscow.

We're delighted to announce the full programme for the SLOVO RUSSIAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL
16 - 20 April, London
Boris Akunin, Zakhar Prilepin, Alexander Kabakov, Olga Slavnikova and Alex Dubas are all coming to London for a series of talks at The Russian Bookshop at Waterstones!

By Aleksei Lukyanov, Igor Savelyev, Denis Osokin, GullaKhirachev, PolinaKlyukina, Alexander Gritsenko, ArslanKhasavov, Oleg Zobern, Yuna Letts, Irina Glebova, Victor Puchkov, Olga Yelagina
Translated by Mariam Schwartz, Amanda Love Darragh, Anna Gunin, Nicholas Allen, Anne O. Fisher, Lisa Hayden Espenschade, Ben Hooson, Leo Shtutin, Muireann Maguire, Carol Yermakova, Jose Alaniz, Andrew Bromfield
Glas; pp. 304
ISBN 978-5-7172-0086-8
This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and do not resonate to the sort of art that attempts to turn everything Soviet into vintage chic. Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature. Perhaps this change is an anthropological response to the difficult position of culture and literature. This new generation writing in Russian deserves great attention.

By AlekseiLukyanov, Igor Savelyev, Denis Osokin, GullaKhirachev, PolinaKlyukina, Alexander Gritsenko, ArslanKhasavov, Oleg Zobern, Yuna Letts, Irina Glebova, Victor Puchkov, Olga Yelagina
Translated by Mariam Schwartz, Amanda Love Darragh, Anna Gunin, Nicholas Allen, Anne O. Fisher, Lisa Hayden Espenschade, Ben Hooson, Leo Shtutin, Muireann Maguire, Carol Yermakova, Jose Alaniz, Andrew Bromfield
Glas; pp. 304
ISBN 978-5-7172-0086-8
This anthology presents Russian prose by a new generation. The authors, who come from various parts of Russia, never lived in the Soviet Union. They are free of the Soviet legacy. They have no nostalgia and do not resonate to the sort of art that attempts to turn everything Soviet into vintage chic. Today an unusually gifted generation is entering Russian literature. Perhaps this change is an anthropological response to the difficult position of culture and literature. This new generation writing in Russian deserves great attention.

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Now - 14 February
Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev create interactive artworks which subtly communicate strong critical attitudes at the Science Museum

Congratulations to Mikhail Shishkin for winning Big Book Prize and the readers' choice for his novel Pismovnik (Letter-Book).

29 October - 22 January
This special exhibition at the Royal Academy will examine Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction that took place from c.1922 to 1935.

Friday 16 September – Sunday 25 September 2011
Tate Modern is showcasing the work of the extraordinary Moscow film club CINE FANTOM, which is 25 years old this year.

In December 1952, three months before Stalin’s death, the French Communist Party abruptly expelled two of the most distinguished members of its Politburo, André Marty and Charles Tillon. These were exalted veterans of the revolutionary movement in France, having risen to prominence as far back as the 1920s. Both belonged to the party’s founding core but had enjoyed Lenin’s trust even during the Russian Civil War.

He decided to call his aunt before his departure, anyway. Typically, he was the first to make a conciliatory move. The important thing here was not to curry favor or pander, but to conduct himself as if there hadn’t been a real quarrel – a mere trifle, a light tiff. “So, tell me,” he asked, “what should I bring you – castañuelas?” “Go to hell!” she snapped. But her voice conveyed a certain satisfaction that he’d telephoned – that he’d called despite everything, hadn’t flown off, chirring his little wings.

5 - 28 August
The British Film Institute, in association with Academia Rossica, brings the best of Soviet science fiction to London. Highlights include Tarkovsky's Stalker and cult favourite Kin-Dza-Dza.

8 July - 21 August
The British Film Institute, in association with Academia Rossica, brings the best of Soviet science fiction to London.