![]() | The Skidelsky Russian Lecture: Rediscovering Russian rootsMonday 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 ZhivagoMonday, 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 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 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. Translating Russia: 50th anniversary of Doctor ZhivagoMonday, 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 18The 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. |