Onegin
30 September – 25 October
The Royal Ballet perform John Cranko's Onegin at the Royal Opera House. Stage designs and music taken from Tchaikovsky in a specially created score bring the world of imperial Russia vividly alive to complete a ballet of colour, drama, beauty and passion.
The Royal Ballet perform John Cranko's Onegin at the Royal Opera House. Stage designs and music taken from Tchaikovsky in a specially created score bring the world of imperial Russia vividly alive to complete a ballet of colour, drama, beauty and passion.
Mario Petrucci
Mario has published numerous poetry books and pamphlets, including: Shrapnel and Sheets, Bosco, Heavy Water, Half Life, Fearnought (poems for Southwell Workhouse), along with translations of Catullus, Sappho and Montale. Lepidoptera is a hybrid book of long poetry and short prose, while his illustrated collection The Stamina of Sheep (the unique result of an innovative public and educational arts project for Havering, the Thames and Essex) captured the Essex Book Award for Best Fiction Publication (2000-2002). Flowers of Sulphur was published in 2007. Mario is currently working on two further collections, Monte Cassino and i tulips.
French and African Letters
by Ismail Gasprali
Translated by Azade-Ayse Rorlich
Istanbul: Isis Press; 2008; pp. 206
Through Ismail Gasprali's French and African Letters Professor Rorlich offers evidence regarding the scope of Muslim modernism in late imperial Russia contributing at the same time to a better understanding of the debates on gender issues that shaped the modernist discourse.
Translated by Azade-Ayse Rorlich
Istanbul: Isis Press; 2008; pp. 206
Through Ismail Gasprali's French and African Letters Professor Rorlich offers evidence regarding the scope of Muslim modernism in late imperial Russia contributing at the same time to a better understanding of the debates on gender issues that shaped the modernist discourse.
Magnificence of the Tsars
until 29 March
Victoria and Albert Museum
The grandeur of Imperial Russia will be captured in this display of the dress and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian court. Starting in the 1720s with the lavishly embroidered coats and elaborately patterned silk banyans from the wardrobe of Tsar Peter II, the display will span a period of almost two centuries.
Victoria and Albert Museum
The grandeur of Imperial Russia will be captured in this display of the dress and uniforms of Emperors and officials of the Russian court. Starting in the 1720s with the lavishly embroidered coats and elaborately patterned silk banyans from the wardrobe of Tsar Peter II, the display will span a period of almost two centuries.
Rossica 10/11
St Petersburg – 300
This special issue, with a foreword by Her Majesty The Queen, celebrates the Tercentenary of Russia’s imperial capital, known as the Venice of the North and one of the world’s most enigmatic cities – St Petersburg.
This special issue, with a foreword by Her Majesty The Queen, celebrates the Tercentenary of Russia’s imperial capital, known as the Venice of the North and one of the world’s most enigmatic cities – St Petersburg.
Rossica 10/11
St Petersburg – 300
This special issue, with a foreword by Her Majesty The Queen, celebrates the Tercentenary of Russia’s imperial capital, known as the Venice of the North and one of the world’s most enigmatic cities – St Petersburg.
This special issue, with a foreword by Her Majesty The Queen, celebrates the Tercentenary of Russia’s imperial capital, known as the Venice of the North and one of the world’s most enigmatic cities – St Petersburg.
Simon Sebag Montefiore - Imperial Russia Revisited
13 March
Royal National Hotel
19.00-20.00
Simon Sebag Montefiore is an outstanding chronicler of Russian history. He discusses the complexities of Russian history and the contrasts between the Imperial and Revolutionary courts.
Royal National Hotel
19.00-20.00
Simon Sebag Montefiore is an outstanding chronicler of Russian history. He discusses the complexities of Russian history and the contrasts between the Imperial and Revolutionary courts.