Join us for the next meeting of our reading group. This month’s book choice is Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea, available in our bookshop here. An autobiographical account of Teffi’s escape from Russia following the Revolution, it depicts the acclaimed writer’s experience of war, unrest, violence, hope and exile.
Join us for the next meeting of our reading group. We chose Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets (available in our bookshop here). Lucky Breaks tells of women affected by the war in the east of Ukraine, ongoing since 2014. The meeting will be hosted by our bookshop co-curator Sasha Padziarei.
Join us for the next meeting of our reading group. We chose Klotsvog by Margarita Khemlin, which covers themes including Soviet everyday life, Jewishness, womanhood and the trauma of World War Two. The meeting will be hosted by our bookshop co-curator Sasha Padziarei.
Join journalists Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov for a talk based on their new book The Compatriots which explores the Motherland's role in the lives of exiles, émigrés and agents abroad.
Join us for an evening with Bathsheba Demuth whose book ‘Floating Coast’ has been shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2020. Bathsheba will be in conversation with Richard Wright, one of the 2020 Prize judges.
Join us for an evening with Kate Brown whose book ‘Manual for Survival’ has been shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2020. Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews, Kate unveils the full breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed the Chernobyl disaster. Kate will be in conversation with Serhii Plokhy, chair of the 2020 Prize judges and twice winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize in 2015 and 2019.
Приглашаем посетить беседу с Сергеем Медведевым! Его книга “Парк Крымского периода” (The Return of the Russian Leviathan) одна из шести, номинированных на получение книжного приза Пушкинского Дома 2020 года. Ведущая вечера: декан факультета истории, кандидат исторических наук Юля Сафронова, одна из судей, кто будет решать, кто получит этот приз.
Join us for a discussion about NKTP (People’s Commissariat for Heavy Industry) Sanatorium in Kislovodsk, by architect Moisei Ginzburg. The Sanatorium was commissioned in 1934 by Grigory Ordzhonikidze, one of Stalin’s closest allies. Despite the prevailing ideology that sought to outlaw modernism in favour of Stalinist neoclassicism, architect Moisei Ginzburg, with a team that included Ivan Leonidov, Evgeny Popov and Nikolai Paliudov, succeeded in creating an architectural ensemble that essentially retained its modernist integrity – and today remains a masterpiece of 1930s modernism – while making only minor concessions to the new Stalinist orthodoxy. Architect Alexei Ginzburg, publisher Natalia Shilova and photographer Richard Pare will discuss the new English-language publication of the original book on the Sanitorium by Moisei Ginzburg.
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