 | Archiveyou are here: All Events & News > Archive  | March 23, 7.30pm
£12-£24
Following her sold-out Brahms recital last season, when she returned to the London concert platform after many years’ absence, Russian pianist Nelly Akopian-Tamarina makes a return to Wigmore Hall with an atmospheric programme of middle-European mood scenes. Blocked by official censorship in Russia from giving public concerts for more than a decade, Moscow-born Nelly Akopian-Tamarina has revisited Russia in recent years to give concerts at the Bolshoi Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire and also in Kiev.
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 | Leicester Square Theatre
9 & 16 March
£12/£10
‘A Sense of Delicacy’, one of Chekhov’s best comic stories, comes to the London stage, performed by the Romanian actor Mihai Arsene. Actor Mihai Arsene was born in Pitesti, Romania. He studied Performing Arts at the University of Craiova, where he graduated in 2001. Just before graduation, he was awarded The Best Actor Award for the role Mr. Bogoiu in "The Holiday Game" by Mihail Sebastian, which was part of the Student Actor Festival in Iasi, Romania.
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| 25 and 26 February
Charlie Wright's
20.00
£7/8
As part of the 'Easternal Nites' programme, talented Russian jazz musicians will be performing in London. A night of experimental improvised music from Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky, Andrey Kondakov and Vladimir Volkov, followed by an evening of instrumental jazz and fusion from the MassAve Project.
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| 22 February, 17.00
Jewish Book Week
£8
A talk with Elaine Feinstein, chaired by David Mazower. 'The Russian Jerusalem', Feinstein's lyrical novel about history, memory and love, features Mandelstam, Babel and Pasternak, with Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, who believed ‘all poets are Jews’, as her guide.
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| 22 February, 15.30
Jewish Book Week
£8
A talk with Simon Sebag Montefiore, chaired by Ariane Koek. He had been commended for the lively pace of his biographies of Stalin and Catherine the Great. From megalomaniac leaders to ordinary people, who believed in the Revolution, but were crushed by its machinery, the move from History to story-making was only natural, or was it? Montefiore talks about his beloved Russia, fact vs fiction and his switch between genres.
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 | 20 February, 7.30pm
Wigmore Hall
£10-£20
Bach, Schubert, Prokofiev and Wieniawski
Ukranian violinist Andrej Bielow, makes his solo Wigmore Hall debut on Friday 20 February at 7.30pm in a recital with pianist, Severin von Eckardstein. Andrej is well-known to Wigmore audiences as leader of the Szymanowski Quartet – a position he has held since 2005.
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| 10 February
BFI, Southbank
Tarkovsky's genre-defying evocation of a decayed post-industrial society was filmed in a disused and rotting power station, the setting for a forbidden landscape known as "the zone" where the Stalker leads a Writer and a Scientist on a quest for a hidden truth. Thirty years on from the film's original release, Professor Ian Christie will introduce this seminal film. Following the screening there will be a discussion with special guests including Evgeny Tsymbal, the film's assistant director. For a chance to win tickets to this exclusive event, let us know what this film means to you at our forum.
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 | 7-8 February, 20.00; 9 February 19.00
Teathro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road
£10 (£7 conc)
Elizaveta Bam prefigures the atmosphere of Kafka’s short stories and Ionesco’s theatre of the absurd. It tells the story of a woman arrested for a murder not yet committed, mixing slapstick with pantomime and horror with humor. Written in 1929, the play was a harbinger to Stalin’s repressions that took the lives of 40 million people.
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| 1 February
19.30-00.00
La Scala, King's Cross
£26 (£40 VIP)
Smyslovye Gallyutsinatsii (Смысловы́е галлюцина́ции) is a Russian rock band created in 1989 in Yekaterinburg which has won the Golden Gramophone award twice. The name of the band may be translated as "hallucinations of meaning" or "semantic hallucinations". Free CD of new album for each ticket holder.
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.jpg "Mariinsky Theatre / Gergiev") | 31 January and 1 February 2009
Barbican Hall
In January 2009 Barbican is delighted to present two special performances of the Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre directed by Valery Gergiev, a general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera.
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 | 27 and 29 January, 7.30pm
Barbican Hall
£5 for Academia Rossica fans!
Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' and Bartok's 'Duke Bluebeard's Castle'
Stravinsky’s pulsating masterpiece was written for Nijinsky’s ballet about a prehistoric community which selects a young virgin for ecstatic human sacrifice. ‘We were dumbfounded,’ wrote an early listener, ‘overwhelmed by this hurricane which… had taken life by the roots.’
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 | 26 January 2009
Moscow
Olga Slavnikova, won the 2009 Kazakov prize for best short story. The prize was awarded for her story, 'The Cherepanova Sisters', part of a collection entitled 'Love in the seventh carriage'. Olga will be visiting London in April to talk at Academia Rossica's 2nd Russian Literature Week.
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 | 24 January
Park Kultury, Moscow
'Wild Field', Mikhail Kalatozishvili's stunning debut film, which won the audience prize award at Academia Rossica's 2nd Russian Film Festival in London, was awarded a Golden Eagle in Moscow. Ksenia Rappaport received two best actress awards, one of which was for her role in Serebriannikov's thought-provoking study on modern Russia, 'Yuri's Day'.
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.jpg "The Big Book Prize") | 25 November 2008
Moscow
Vladimir Makanin was awarded first prize for his novel 'Asan'. Liudmila Saraskina received second prize for her bibliography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Rustam Rakhmatulin was presented with third prize for his collection of essays entitled 'Two Moscows, or the Metaphysics of the Capital'.
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 | May 2008
Cannes, France
It seems that for Russian cinema, good things come in threes: the Russian film industry suitably showcased at the first ever Russian film pavilion; leading Russian production and distribution companies present their best creations at the International Marché du Film; and stunning triumphs for first-time feature film directors Sergei Dvortsevoy and Valeria Gai-Germanika!
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.jpg "Russian Triumph at 65th Venice Film Festival") | Venice Film Festival, 2008
Another success of a young Russian filmmaker at one of the most prestigious European film festivals. Alexey German's Jr.'s Silver Lion as best director with his recent film, 'Paper Soldier', once again confirms that Russian cinema is reappearing on the world cultural map.
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| 11-24 July 2008
BFI Southbank, London
Garri Urban survived the holocaust and the Gulag, while maintaining self-respect and refusing to become a victim of his harrowing life as a polish Jew in the 20th Century. Garri and his son, two-time BAFTA winning director Stuart Urban, returned to the former Soviet Union in 1992 to claim his KGB file and prove his incredible history.
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| Now - July 18 2008
RS&A Ltd. Gallery, London
Entry Free
Moscow art collecive of four, AES+F, presents video installation and porcelain work in their first solo exhibition in the UK. 'First Riot' brought new prominence to their already illustrious careers, when it met with sensational success at the Venice Biennale in 2007...
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