In a series of two lectures, historian and politician Alexey Gusev will reflect on the inclination of the Russian state throughout history towards authoritarian regimes. Is there any particular reason? How is authoritarianism constructed? Is there any hope for democracy?
In a series of two lectures, historian and politician Alexey Gusev will reflect on the inclination of the Russian state throughout history towards authoritarian regimes. Is there any particular reason? How is authoritarianism constructed? Is there any hope for democracy?
Pushkin House invites you to an online lecture by Russian art historian Professor Alexei Leporc dedicated to the influence of Ukrainian culture on the Russian architectural tradition of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In the words of Professor Leporc, it was Ukraine that gave late 17th century Moscow its most precious necklace of magnificent churches. Following the Eternal Peace Treaty of 1686, which set out the division of Ukraine between Poland and Russia, Moscow was visibly influenced by the Ukrainian tradition and architecturally “Ukrainised” as Russia took greater political control over the country. Everything usually described as “Naryshkin Baroque” was a rather direct result of a fascination with splendid Ukrainian churches but is too often misinterpreted as being the first wave of Western European influence on Russian culture. Online event.
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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