The Skidelsky Russian Lecture: Rediscovering Russian roots

Monday 7 June, 7pm
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre Courtauld Institute, Somerset House
Chaired by Elaine Feinstein
The Bolshevik Revolution produced a mass exodus of Russia’s aristocracy and educated bourgeoisie. In the years following 1917 many of Russia’s most talented writers, artists, composers, scientists, professionals,

Translating Russia: 50th anniversary of Doctor Zhivago

Monday, 14 April, 7 pm
Royal Society of Literature, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand
Dmitry Bykov, winner of the Big Book prize, speaks about his new biography of Boris Pasternak and life in Stalin’s Russia. Elaine Feinstein and Professors Jon Stallworthy and Angela Livingstone speak about their own involvement with Pasternak over many years. (£5 donation)
In Russian and English

Rossica 1

Hermitage 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 1

Hermitage 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.

Translating Russia: 50th anniversary of Doctor Zhivago

Monday, 14 April, 7 pm
Royal Society of Literature, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, Strand
Dmitry Bykov, winner of the Big Book prize, speaks about his new biography of Boris Pasternak and life in Stalin’s Russia. Elaine Feinstein and Professors Jon Stallworthy and Angela Livingstone speak about their own involvement with Pasternak over many years. (£5 donation)
In Russian and English

Rossica 18

The Ties of Blood
Russian Literature from the 21st Century

This edition of Rossica takes on a new form! It is an Anthology of New Russian Writing, featuring both prose and poetry translated into English and edited by leading specialists.
The issue was launched at the first Russian Literature Week, in April 2008.