The Home of Russian Culture MAY – JUNE 2014 What’s On

Moscow, 2013 © Matthew Webb /matthewwebbphotography.com Book online: www.pushkinhouse.org.uk ANGLO-RUSSIAN RESEARCH NETWORK: RUSSIAN ORTHO- DOXY AND ANGLICANISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Friday 02 May 17:30-19:30 Language: English Join Professor Simon Dixon of UCL SSEES for a discussion of the 19th-century relationship between the Churches. Contemporary tensions between pan- Slavism and pan-Orthodoxy echo in Russian-Ukrainian relations today. To book for this free event please email: [email protected] or [email protected] COLLABORATIVE MONTHLY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP WITH ROBERT CHANDLER

Friday 02 May 19:30-21:00 Literary translation, for some reason, is often seen as a solitary activity. A collaborative approach, however, is as helpful as it is enjoyable. All translators, at any stage of their careers, are welcome to attend. Participants should have fluent English and a good reading knowledge of Russian. Tickets: £5, conc. £3

PUSHKIN CLUB: SOVIET DISSIDENT WRITING AND THE LEGACY OF ANDREI SINYAVSKY

Tuesday 06 May 19:30-21:00 Language: Russian The show-trial in 1965-66 of contentious authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Iuli Daniel marked the end of Khrushchev’s thaw and the beginning of the Soviet dissident movement. Critic and journalist Natalya Rubinstein tells their story. Tickets: £7, conc. £5 THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS: AN EVENING WITH FORMER BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE ROBERT BRINKLEY

Wednesday 07 May 18:30 for 19:00 Language: English Drawing on his own first-hand experience and long knowledge of the historical relationship between Russian and Ukraine, Robert Brinkley sheds light on a situation that is very far from black and white. Come and extend your own understanding. To book for this talk please email: [email protected] PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN WINE CLUB: WINE TASTING

Wednesday 07 May 19:00-21:00 Language: Russian, with some translation What is intelligent drinking? Does wine create art, or is wine an art form in its own right? Time to discuss our love affair with wine through the ages in Russia, over a glass or two at Pushkin House. Tanya Nester, wine writer and teacher, formerly at Vinopolis, leads the evening. Tickets: £10

CONCERT: MAZAIKA DUO: WAR SONGS - IGOR OUTKINE (VOCALS, ACCORDION); SARAH HARRISON (DOMRA, VIOLIN)

Thursday 09 May 19:30-21:00 The single best way to mark День Победы in London. Mazaika share war songs known and loved by Russians everywhere. Lyrics engendered by war, their constant shared theme is a longing for peacetime. Tickets: £15, including wine PUSHKIN HOUSE CURRENT AFFAIRS DISCUSSION: PRESIDENT PUTIN AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY WITH FIONA HILL

Tuesday 13 May 17:30 - 18:30 Join Fiona Hill, author of the highly- regarded Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss what conditions Russia's responses to international events, including in Ukraine, Syria and Iran, and what conditions President Putin's personal responses as a political leader. Tickets: £10; conc. £7

MARLEN KHUTSIEV, IN AN EXCLUSIVE LONDON APPEARANCE, INTRODUCES THE SCREENING OF «ИЮЛЬСКИЙ ДОЖДЬ»

Tuesday 13 May 18:30 for 19:00-21:30 Language: Russian with translation One of Russia’s best-known living film directors, an iconic cultural figure both during the Soviet era and today, Marlen Khutsiev, introduces his cult classic July Rain (1966, USSR), and discusses his life and work at a screening and cinematic Question & Answer session. Tickets: £7; conc. £5

ПРОГРАММА «РУССКОГО ДЕТСКОГО МИРА»: PETRUSHKA STUDIO PRESENTS БУРАТИНО

Saturday 17 May 13:00 and 15:30 (two performances) Language: Russian Petrushka Studio's enchanting participative puppet theatre brings to life the much- loved fairy story by Alexei Tolstoy. A small shadow theatre workshop will be held after the event, allowing young theatregoers to try out roles for themselves. Tickets: £15 MIKHAIL SHISHKIN AT PUSHKIN CLUB

Tuesday 20 May 19:30-21:00 Language: English In its 60th anniversary year, the Pushkin Club welcomes one of today's greatest Russian writers to Pushkin House. Shishkin will discuss the interplay between literary and political texts in today’s Russia, and read excerpts from his own work in English translation. Tickets: £10; conc. £7

ST PETERSBURG - SHADOWS OF THE PAST: A TALK WITH PRO- FESSOR CATRIONA KELLY

Wednesday 21 May 18:30 for 19:00 Language: English Professor Catriona Kelly of Oxford University, one of the judges of this year's Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, shows how a creative engagement with the past has always been vital for St Petersburg’s residents. To book for this talk please email: [email protected]

VIKTOR POPKOV: THE ’DOSTOEVSKY OF ART’ - CURATOR TALK

Thursday 22 May 19:30-21:00 Language: English An exclusive opportunity on the opening night of the new Popkov exhibition at Somerset House to discuss his work with the exhibition’s curator, Zelfira Tregulova, and the collector Andrey Filatov, both influential, high-profile figures in the world of contemporary Russian culture: chaired by the BBC’s Alex Kan. Tickets: £5, conc. £3 PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN FAMILY PROGRAMME: ONE WOMAN, 200 PUPPETS - ELENA TRESHCHINSKAYA

Saturday 31 May 15:00-18:00 Language: Russian A fundraising performance in aid of RusFond's Harley Street Clinic Project. Elena Treshchinskaya, from the fashionable Moscow theatre One Woman, 200 Puppets, brings her family show ‘Story Box’ to Pushkin House. Hand-made wooden Russian toys and books of fairy tales will be on sale. Tickets: £35 TALK: PROFESSOR MICHAEL HUGHES: ‘SEARCHING FOR THE SOUL OF RUSSIA’

Monday 02 June 18:30 for 19:00 As part of the official UK/Russia Year of Culture, Professor Michael Hughes of Manchester University discusses this most relevant of themes, with a focus on Britain pre-1914. This is a GB Russia Society event and all are welcome. To book for this talk please email: [email protected]

FILM: "THEY CHOSE FREEDOM" AND Q&A WITH DIRECTOR VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA

Tuesday 03 June 18:30-21:30 Language: film and discussion in English The story of the Soviet dissident movement, from the 1950s to the collapse of the in 1991, told through interviews with its most iconic figures, including , , Nathan Sharansky and many others. The film's director Vladimir Kara- Murza will lead the discussion. Tickets: £7; conc. £5 DIRECTOR/DESIGNER DMITRY KRYMOV ON MODERN RUSSIAN THEATRE

Monday 09 June 19:30-21:00 Language: in Russian with English translation Dmitry Krymov, director of Opus No. 7, the Russian highlight of this year's London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), discusses his work and his inspiration. A rare chance to talk theatre in London with one of Russia's best-known and most exciting directors. Tickets: £7; conc. £5 EXHIBITION OPENING: MATTHEW WEBB'S "CARBON JOURNEY: LOW-CARBON LIVELIHOODS IN RUSSIA AND THE CIS"

Tuesday 10 June 18:30 for 20:00 Matthew Webb's acclaimed series of photographs 'Carbon Journey' takes us to distant parts to document fascinating individual responses to climate change across Russia and the CIS. Join us for drinks, good company and the chance to meet Matthew to discuss his work and experiences on less travelled paths. Event is free, but booking is necessary. PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK CLUB: UKRAINE SERIES: GOGOL: EVENINGS ON A FARM NEAR DIKANKA & MIRGOROD

Thursday 12 June 19:30-21:00 To explore the historical and cultural context of the current situation in Ukraine, Professor Donald Rayfield and Dr Oliver Ready will be discussing Gogol’s haunting, evocative and sometimes magical tales of the Ukrainian countryside in ‘Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka’ and ‘Mirgorod’. Tickets: £7; conc. £5 MONTHLY COLLABORATIVE TRANSLATION WORKSHOP WITH ROBERT CHANDLER

Friday 13 June 19:30-21:00 Literary translation, for some reason, is often seen as a solitary activity. A collaborative approach, however, is as helpful as it is enjoyable. All translators, at any stage of their careers, are welcome to attend this monthly Russian-to-English translation workshop. Participants should have fluent English and a good reading knowledge of Russian. Tickets: £5; conc. £3 ПРОГРАММА «РУССКОГО ДЕТСКОГО МИРА»: PETRUSHKA STUDIO PRESENTS БУРАТИНО

Saturday 14 June 13:00 and 15:30 (two performances) In Russian. Petrushka Studio's enchanting participative puppet theatre brings to life the much-loved fairy story by Alexei Tolstoy. A small shadow theatre workshop will be held after the event, allowing young theatregoers to try out different roles for themselves. Tickets: £15 EVGENIYA GINZBURG’S INTO THE WHIRLWIND, WITH SIR RO- DRIC BRAITHWAITE AND CATHERINE MERRIDALE

Monday 16 June 19:30-21:00 Into the Whirlwind describes the plight of an educated, well-to-do woman - the wife of the mayor of Kazan - who finds herself exiled to the icy prison camps of Kolyma. Sir Rodric Braithwaite and Professor Catherine Merridale, lead the discussion on the new Persephone Press edition of Ginzburg’s classic memoir of the Gulag. Tickets: £7; conc. £5 TALK ABOUT TEFFI - A RUSSIAN WRITER REDISCOVERED

Tuesday 17 June 19:30-21:00 Teffi is a recently rediscovered writer whose genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II and Lenin alike. Two translators of the new Pushkin Press collection of Teffi's stories, Robert Chandler and Anne-Marie Jackson, talk about the whirlwind life and work of the Russian émigré writer. Tickets: £7; conc. £5 TALK: RODERICK HEATHER – ‘AN ACCIDENTAL RELATIONSHIP: THE BRITISH IN TSARIST RUSSIA’

Wednesday 18 June 18:30-20:30 It started with a storm… Since explorer Richard Chancellor was blown off-course and made his famous chance landing in 1553, Russia and Britain have enjoyed a special – and quite extraordinary – relationship. To book for this talk please email: [email protected]

THEATRE: THE RUSSIAN DOCTOR - CHEKHOV'S TIME ON SA- KHALIN IN A NEW PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE PIECE

Friday 20 June 19:30-21:00 Clinical neuroscientist Jonathan Cole and acclaimed theatre artist Andrew Dawson collaborate in the first ever on-stage production of Chekhov’s lesser-known biographical masterpiece Sakhalin Island. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the physical performance piece documents Chekhov’s pilgrimage to Russia’s Far East, a journey he undertook for both artistic and scientific reasons. Tickets: £10; conc. £7 IAN ROBERTS – ‘VORONTSOV – FATHER AND SON: AN ANGLO- RUSSIAN DUO’

Monday 30 June 18:30-20:30 After the appointment of Count Semion Romanovich Vorontsov as Russian Ambassador to Great Britain in 1795, the Vorontsov family came to represent the flesh and blood of Anglo-Russian relations. Ian Roberts gives a fascinating insight into these landmark junctures in history. To book for this talk please email: [email protected]

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