![]() | XXIII Moscow International Book Fair International Lounge events programmeThe International Lounge at the Moscow International Book Fair is a space where the Russian publishing world can form links with the international book industry. Alongside the extensive programme of seminars and roundtables, it is a place for networking and deals, as well as being an information centre on international collaboration. The International Lounge is organised by Academia Rossica with the support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication and the Moscow International Book Fair. The programme of seminars and presentations is focused on the preparation for Russia Market Focus at the London Book Fair 2011. The Captain’s Daughterby Alexander Pushkin Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler Hesperus Press, 2008, pp. 115 Pushkin's version of the historical novel in the style of Walter Scott, this final prose work also reflects his fascination with and research into Russian history of the 18th century. During the reign of Catherine the Great, the young Grinev sets out for his new career in the army and en route performs an act of kindness by giving his warm coat to a man freezing in a blizzard. Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead11-24 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. Rossica 3Imperial Russian Ballet Oranienbaum: Chinoiserie a la Russe A la Russe: the Russian art of performance through the 18th and 19th centuries is celebrated in this issue, dedicated to Russia’s most famous ballets and to Catherine the Great’s personal Dacha – Oranienbaum. Rossica 1Hermitage Rooms in London Art moves in mysterious ways. Works of art travel through the world, weaving it with invisible threads into one realm of culture. Seemingly random, their paths combine in strangely coherent patterns as if guided by some inner unseen Providence. Rossica 12/13Rumiantsev’s Arc – Library of a Nation If the book lies at the heart of Russian culture, then the most vital, life-preserving institution in Russian culture is the library. This issue of ROSSICA focuses on the remarkable history and collections of Russia’s largest library: originally called the Rumiantsev Museum, later the Lenin Library (Leninka) it is now the Russian State Library. Rossica 5The Seductions of Europe Prince Yusupov and his Arkhangelskoe This issue is dedicated to Prince Nikolai Yusupov and his magnificent estate Arkhangelskoe near Moscow. Prince Yusupov was one of the outstanding figures of the Age of Enlightenment. Rossica 4Moscow – The Third Rome, Stalin’s Capital, Global City This issue focuses on Russia’s capital city as myth, as physical history, and as the future. Rossica 1Hermitage Rooms in London Art moves in mysterious ways. Works of art travel through the world, weaving it with invisible threads into one realm of culture. Seemingly random, their paths combine in strangely coherent patterns as if guided by some inner unseen Providence. Rossica 3Imperial Russian Ballet Oranienbaum: Chinoiserie a la Russe A la Russe: the Russian art of performance through the 18th and 19th centuries is celebrated in this issue, dedicated to Russia’s most famous ballets and to Catherine the Great’s personal Dacha – Oranienbaum. Rossica 4Moscow – The Third Rome, Stalin’s Capital, Global City This issue focuses on Russia’s capital city as myth, as physical history, and as the future. Rossica 5The Seductions of Europe Prince Yusupov and his Arkhangelskoe This issue is dedicated to Prince Nikolai Yusupov and his magnificent estate Arkhangelskoe near Moscow. Prince Yusupov was one of the outstanding figures of the Age of Enlightenment. Rossica 12/13Rumiantsev’s Arc – Library of a Nation If the book lies at the heart of Russian culture, then the most vital, life-preserving institution in Russian culture is the library. This issue of ROSSICA focuses on the remarkable history and collections of Russia’s largest library: originally called the Rumiantsev Museum, later the Lenin Library (Leninka) it is now the Russian State Library. Sashenka: Fiction and History22 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. |