English jazz singer Nette Robinson will lead a programme of imaginative and sensitive arrangements of traditional folk and popular songs from Russia. Nette will pair each Russian piece with a song from the British Isles or America and talk about the connections and the contrasts between them in terms of theme, narrative and atmosphere.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Soviet history has played a significant role in informing Russian national identity and uniting the nation. The instrumentalisation of this memory during the Yeltsin and Putin eras will be discussed by three young researchers Allyson Edwards, Lucy Birge and Issy Sawkins in a discussion chaired by Dr Kristin Roth-Ey of UCL.

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English jazz singer Nette Robinson will lead a programme of imaginative and sensitive arrangements of traditional folk and popular songs from Russia. Nette will pair each Russian piece with a song from the British Isles or America and talk about the connections and the contrasts between them in terms of theme, narrative and atmosphere.

In a special lecture for Pushkin House, Antony Beevor, the author of Stalingrad, Berlin the Downfall 1945, and The Second World War as well as joint editor of A Writer at War – Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945, looks at myths and misunderstandings around the Soviet role in this conflict. The controversy continues, and it will be especially intense at the time of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the end of the war on 9 May.

THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD OUTSIDE PUSHKIN HOUSE, AT THE Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s College London Strand Building, WC2R 2LS

When Tretyakov’s ground-breaking play, I Want a Baby, was banned by Stalin’s censor in 1927, it was a signal that the radical and innovative theatre of the early Soviet years was to be brought to an end. A glittering, unblinking exploration of the realities of post-revolutionary Soviet life, I Want a Baby marks a high point in modernist experimental drama.

This is a Pushkin Club event and all are welcome.

A documentary film which recounts the lives of passengers travelling on the longest railway route in the world. The director tells the stories and fortunes of ordinary Russians met by chance on the Moscow-Vladivostok train. The endless journey is a metaphor of the country in perpetual motion, while the passengers' stories form a social portrait of contemporary Russian society.

The film tells the story of the tragic life of the actor Dmitry Konsovskiy. He was arrested on the night of December 2 of the year 1934. He found himself imprisoned in Butyrskaya jail, just a couple of hours after he had finished discussing with Abram Room his performance in the main scene of the movie “Strogiy yunosha” (“A Strict Young Man”).

The picture "Kamchatka is a cure for hatred" tells the story of the military correspondent and writer Vyacheslav Nemyshev, who visited the war 27 times and failed to adapt in civil life after the experienced military events. The film won the XXVII International Festival of Documentary Films in Amsterdam IDFA in the nomination "Best Mid-Range Film" in 2014.

The Pushkin Club continues the celebration of its 65th Anniversary with an Evening dedicated to the prophetic visions of the greatest Russian poets. Poems by poets of the Golden Age, the Silver Age and the latter part of the 20th Century will be read in Russian and in English translation.

This is a Pushkin Club event and all are welcome.

A debut concert by Minerva Piano Trio, presenting an existing combination of youthful works by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich, finishing the concert with one of the greatest piano trios ever written, the last one of Schubert.

Maria Shevtsova introduces her new book Rediscovering Stanislavsky, highlighting lesser-known aspects of his theatre practice related to the visual arts, music, dance and his religious worldview and  his multiple innovations within his six laboratory studios.. She discusses the impact of the 1920s and 1930s on the Moscow Art Theatre and Stanislavsky’s legacy as viewed from the perspective of contemporary European theatre.

Aleksandr Tvardovsky's pocket epic Vasili Tyorkin: A Poem About a Soldier, is one of the few genuinely popular works of art to emerge from the Second World War. Originally invented by Tvardovsky and some colleagues during the Finnish War of 1939, Tyorkin - the roguish, humorous, eternally optimistic Soviet infantryman - developed into a phenomenon during the latter conflict.

This is a Pushkin Club event and all are welcome.

Mary McAuley first visited Leningrad as an exchange student in the 1960s, researching labour relations in the Soviet Union for her thesis. Staying in a student hostel she struck up friendships that have lasted a lifetime. In her recently published memoir, Remembering Leningrad, The Story of a Generation, she charts the evolution of the city not just through the turbulent events of Soviet and post-Soviet history but also through the individual life experiences of her friends.

This is a Pushkin Club event and all are welcome

Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk - both translators themselves - get asked questions like this all too often. In this talk, they try to provide a few answers - and to give readers a few guidelines that may help them to find their own answers.

Пушкинский Дом приглашает отпраздновать Старый Новый год с актрисой Нового драматического театра Наталией Маевой, которая прочитает стихи поэтов Серебряного века, посвященных русскому Северу. Выступление пройдет на фоне инсталляции Руфь Макленнан «Ледокол видит сны» (Icebreaker Dreaming). Прозвучит поэзия Николая Гумилева, Марии Цветаевой, Анны Ахматовой, Николая Бунина и грузинского поэта Тициана Табидзе в переводе Бориса Пастернака.

Nicolas Pasternak Slater presents and reads extracts from his new translation of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Maya Slater, the Picture Editor, will present some of the 68 illustrations by Leonid Pasternak (the author’s father and translator’s grandfather), discussing their stories and explaining some of their unexpected associations with the novel.

A concert celebrating the centenary of the unique Russian composer of Polish origin, Moisey (Mieczysław) Weinberg (1919-1996). Friend and disciple of Shostakovich, his musical style was also influence by Prokofiev and Myaskovsky. The programme is curated by an award- winning pianist Yulia Chaplina and features the newly appointed leader of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Yuzefovich as a guest soloist, in addition to Weinberg-expert violinist Yuri Kalnits.

This is a unique opportunity to hear both the nearly forgotten gems of Russian cello music and well-known repertoire written for the instrument. In addition to playing miniatures by Lyadov and Arensky prizewinning British cellist Ariana Kashefi will also present monumental sonatas by Myaskovsky and Shostakovich.

A joint event of The Orwell Society and Pushkin Club, including a film screening of the 1937 documentary by Louis Frank and talks by Miriam Frank on ‘My Father, Louis Frank’ and Masha Karp on ‘George Orwell and Emma Goldman’s mission in Britain’.

Described by the Telegraph as a pianist with ‘a sensitive soul’, Russian pianist Anna Tsybuleva is the winner of the 2015 Leeds Piano Competition. This is Anna’s third appearance in a Pushkin House Music Salon. Her programme includes two major works from the German piano repertoire: Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata and Schubert’s ‘Wanderer’ Fantasy, based on the song with the same title.

A piano recital by Russian-born Ilya Poletaev exploring various influences in Nikolay Medtner’s music. Half-German by birth, Medtner was considered equal to Scriabin and Rachmaninov just before the Revolution. Having embraced the idiom of German composers and philosophers as well as he could, Medtner managed to preserve the Russian element in his music. Sonata Tragica is one of his most popular pieces written just before immigrating to the West.

An evening organised by Pushkin Club commemorating Father Alexander Men’ (22 January 1935 – 9 September 1990) by an event which will be dedicated to Russian poetry on religious and spiritual themes.

An evening of music with four talented musicians: Milly Forrest, George Ireland, Theodore Platt and Keval Shah performing songs by Grechaninov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, making giant leaps in their careers.

One of the things Odessa has going for it is a cultural tradition like no other, established by Babel and his boisterous landsmen. Some of these Odessans — like the poet Eduard Bagritsky, the singer Leonid Utyosov, and the prose writers Yury Olesha, Ilya Ilf, and Evgeny Petrov — are still famous today; others have been forgotten. In the 1920s, their writings and popular songs infused Soviet culture with a new “Southern” flavor, a spicy blend of Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish unique to their hometown. For a translator of Odessan texts, the question of whether this blend was a language all its own or a dialect is beside the point. What matters is what one does with it.

An evening with John Crowfoot, who will talk about Simeon Vilensky. Simeon Vilensky (1928-2016) ended his long life, nationally and internationally recognised, and an honoured member of Alexander Yakovlev’s Commission for the Victims of Political Repression. Yet he could so easily have disappeared into one of the many thousands of unmarked graves in the Gulag. This event is organised by Pushkin Club and all are welcome.

An evening of music with Artem Kotov, guest artist from Moscow, for the opening concert of our 2019-2020 Music Salon programme. This evening’s exceptional programme explores early Russian classical music, as well as piano music by rarely heard Russian composers Genishta (1795-1853), Lyadov (1855-1914), Catoire (1861-1926) and Roslavets (1881-1944). Artem Kotov is part of ‘Moscow Soloists’, Russia’s only Grammy award-winning ensemble.

An evening with Robert Chandler, who will discuss and read from, “The History of the Village of Goriukhino,” one of the wittiest and most original of all Pushkin’s works. This event is organised by Pushkin Club, and all are welcome.