Presentation of the Week 47 Nezavisimosti Avenue from 29Th June

12 AGENDA The Minsk Times Friday, April 27, 2012

Exhibitions MODERN FINE ARTS MUSEUM Presentation of the week 47 Nezavisimosti Avenue From 29th June. Town Sketches From 27th October. In Step with Time Until 27th April. A Doll – A Model – An Image MUSEUM OF MINSK CITY HISTORY 10 Revolyutsionnaya Street Until 1st March. New Year: Minsk Time NATIONAL LIBRARY OF BELARUS 116 Nezavisimosti Avenue From 28th January. Great Talent, Great Work, Great Heart From 19th October. Italian Books in Belarus from Bona Sforza’s Times From 10th October. Eternal Jazz YANKA KUPALA STATE LITERARY MUSEUM 4 Y. Kupala Street Permanent exhibition Poetry from Kupala’s Land From 27th October. Planet Belarus NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF BELARUS 12 Karl Marx Street Permanent exhibition 16th-18th Century Belarus in Portraits and Heraldry From 8th May. Reﬂ ections of Military Glory From 6th May. Medieval Instruments of Punishment NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF BELARUS 20 Lenin Street Permanent exhibition Belarusian Artists from the 19th-early 20th

BELTA Century Vetka’s Museum of Folk Crafts hosts solemn opening of Live Voice of Traditions programme From 6th April. Amazing Belarus

Theatres REPUBLICAN THEATRE Kaleidoscope of history unveiled OF BELARUSIAN DRAMA 44 Kropotkin Street 27.04. Ears under Your Sickle 28.04. Psyche Sisters April and May of decades and centuries past come to life THEATRE-STUDIO OF FILM ACTORS 13 Pobediteley Avenue 27th April. In 1930, painter Mai Dan- of Lithuania. 1st May. In 1900, fi rst May-day dem- 27.04. Forgetting Herostratos! 28.04. #13 29.04. tsig was born — an Honoured Figure of 3rd May. In 1931, Vasily Rudenkov onstrations of workers took place in Island of Our Love and Hope 30.04. Master and Arts of Belarus and a People’s Artist of was born — a Belarusian and Russian Vitebsk and Minsk. Margarita Belarus. sportsman in track-and-fi eld and hammer 1st May. In 1969, a university was MODERN ARTS THEATRE 28th April. In 1839, Mstislav Kamin- throwing. He was a champion at the 17th founded in Gomel (since 1988, the Gomel 5 Oktyabrskaya Street sky was born — an ethnographer, folklore Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. State University named aft er Frantsisk 27.04. ParaPaParam 28.04. Figaro.tut 29.04. researcher and publicist. 27th April. In 1919, Belarus’ fi rst sev- Skorina). Prostokvashino Holidays 28th April. In 1886, Nikolay Mikholap en grade music school for children opened 1st May. In 1978, Yanka Kupala Grod- YANKA KUPALA NATIONAL ACADEMIC was born — a Belarusian painter in the in Mogilev. no State University was opened. THEATRE OF BELARUS sphere of decorative-and-applied arts. 28th April. In 1387, the Great Duke 2nd May. In 1920, Th e Run illustrated 7 Engels Street 28th April. In 1897, Belarusian histo- of Lithuania and Polish King Jagailo deliv- literature and art weekly began to publish 27 and 28.04. Kolyady Night 2.05. Belarus rian Vikenty Skardis was born. ered Minsk into possession to his brother in Minsk. in Fantastic Stories 28th April. In 1913, Belarusian physi- Skirgailo. 2nd May. In 1926, the Museum of BELARUSIAN ARMY DRAMA THEATRE cist Boris Stepanov was born — an acad- 28th April. In 1798, the Minsk Dio- the Revolution opened in Minsk’s Uritsky 3 Krasnoarmeiskaya Street emician of the National Academy of Sci- cese (Minsk Roman-Catholic Eparchy) Street. 27.04. A Sparrow Night ences of Belarus. was established by the Emperor’s Decree MAXIM GORKY NATIONAL 28th April. In 1928, singer Tamara and territorially it coincided with the ACADEMIC THEATRE 5 Volodarsky Street Shinko was born — a People’s Artiste of boundaries of the Minsk Province. 27.04. Private Lives 28.04. Pane Kochanku 29.04. Belarus (1963). 28th April. In 1954, Belarus joined the Taming of the Shrew 29th April. In 1896, soil scientist Ivan International Labour Organisation (ILO). BELARUSIAN STATE PUPPET THEATRE Garkusha was born — an academician of 28th April. In 1964, the Radzima Be- 20 Engels Street the Academy of Sciences of Belarus and of larusian Society of Friendship and Cultur- 28.04. Red Riding Hood 29.04. Aladdin and His the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of al Relations with Foreign Countries was Magic Lamp 1.05. Moydodyr 3.05. Why Do People the BSSR. established. Grow Older?.. 29th April. In 1921, Belarusian histo- 28th April. In 1996, the fi rst volume NATIONAL ACADEMIC BOLSHOI OPERA rian and literary critic M. I. Yermalovich of the 18-volume Belarusian Encyclopae- AND BALLET THEATRE was born. dia was released. 2nd May. In 1931, Kommunarka Con- 1 Parizhskoy Kommuny Square 1st May. In 1585, Sophia Slutskaya 29th April. In 1783, the Oginsky Ca- fectionery was launched into exploitation. 27.04. The Sleeping Beauty 28.04. Iolanthe 29.04. was born — a religious fi gure and a Bela- nal was fi nished, uniting the rivers Yaselda 3rd May. In 1791, the Rzecz Pospolita Carmina Burana. Carmen Suita rusian Orthodox saint. (which runs into the Pripyat) and Shchara Sejm adopted a new constitution, which BELARUSIAN REPUBLICAN YOUNG 1st May. In 1895, Vladislav Pavlyuko- (running into the Nieman). liquidated the autonomies of the Grand SPECTATORS’ THEATRE vsky was born — a Belarusian poet, trans- 29th April. In 1855, Belarusian ar- Duchy of Lithuania. 5 Frunze Street lator and ethnographer. chaeologist, folklore and local history re- 3rd May. In 1977, work began on the 27.04. Raggedy Ann Doll 28.04. Little Thumbelina 3rd May. In 1620, patron of arts searcher Eustachy Tyszkiewicz founded fi rst metro line in Minsk, where Chely- 29.04. The Enchanted Forest Fairytales 2.05. Bogusław Radziwiłł was born — a mili- the Vilno Antiquity Museum, which ex- uskintsev Park station is currently situ- Raggedy Ann Doll 3.05. My Poor Marat tary and state fi gure of the Grand Duchy isted until the beginning of WWI. ated.

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