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Mariam Ghani: What We Left Unfinished. Artist talk and screenings at Garage
Mariam Ghani: What We Left Unfinished. Artist talk and screenings during the Field Research project at Garage.
As part of Mariam Ghani long-term research, artist, filmmaker, and writer Mariam Ghani presented her investigations centered around five unfinished Afghan feature films shot between 1978 and 1992, years that encompass the Afghan Communist coup d'état and strong Soviet influence in the country.
The event also include screenings of three of the unfinished films along with improvised live commentaries by filmmaker and film historian Alexander Markov, and diplomat, professor, Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies Gennady Avdeev.
The event is part of the Ghani’s research in Moscow, focused on collecting cinematic material in order to explore how the Afghan war was constructed cinematically for the Soviet people, and how it was framed for the Afghan people—through cinematic methods influenced by Soviet filmmakers.
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, filmmaker, and teacher. She was born in 1978 in New York. Her research-based practice spans video, installation, photography, performance, and text. Her exhibitions and screenings include the Sharjah and Liverpool Biennials, dOCUMENTA (13) in Kabul and Kassel, the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Guggenheim, Met Breuer, Queens Museum, and MoMA in New York. Recent texts have been published by Creative Time Reports, Foreign Policy, Ibraaz, Triple Canopy, and the Manifesta Journal. Recent curatorial projects include the international symposium Radical Archives, the traveling film program History of Histories, and the collaborative exhibition Utopian Pulse. In 2014 Ghani curated In Translation at the Mayakovsky library in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Currently developing research project What we left unfinished, a long-term research, film, and dialogue project, Ghani uncovers lost or fragmented film history of Afghanistan. The topic is closely related to Ghani’s own family roots in Afghanistan, her five-year collaboration with the Afghan national film archive, and her interest in reconstructing abandoned projects, failed ideals, and lost and fragmented histories.
Alexander Markov is a documentary filmmaker, curator, and teacher. He was born in 1973 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated with a degree in Film Directing from the St. Petersburg University of Arts and Culture in 2000, and a degree in Film History from the Russian Institute for Art History in 2004. He trained at the Konrad Wolf School of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 2005 to 2006. Markov has directed a number of documentary films, including Museum of Dreams (2000); Lullaby (2002); Cities within Cities (2003); Russian Costa Rica (2008); Two Highways (2008); Pastoral (2008); Delusion (2010); Children of the Sun (2011); Get Used to This Place (2011); and German Portraits Russian Style (2012).
Gennady Avdeev (b. 1940) is a diplomat, professor, Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies. Avdeev graduated from the Institute of Eastern Languages in 1969 with a specialization in Persian literature.
Avdeev worked at the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, in its Department of the Near and Middle East. He was secretary of the Society of Soviet-Afghan Friendship. During the Soviet-Afghan war, he was the first secretary of the Soviet embassy in Kabul and was head of the House of Soviet Culture and Technology from 1985 to 1987.
His wife is Lyudmila Avdeeva, journalist, member of the Union of Writers.
Field Research project. Generated by the interests of artists, curators, and writers working around the world, each Field Research project re-evaluates Russian-oriented issues in a global context prioritizing central themes in Garage Programs, which in 2014 includes the Russian avant-garde, historical periods relevant to understanding conditions today such as the 60s and the 90s; concepts such as The New International and the post-Post Soviet condition.
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Russian literature | Wikipedia audio article
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Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Rus', the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old Russian were composed. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama. Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Prose was flourishing as well. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky soon became internationally renowned. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excelled in short stories and became a leading dramatist. The beginning of the 20th century ranks as the Silver Age of Russian poetry. The poets most often associated with the Silver Age are Konstantin Balmont, Valery Bryusov, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Sergei Yesenin, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak. This era produced some first-rate novelists and short-story writers, such as Aleksandr Kuprin, Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreyev, Fyodor Sologub, Aleksey Remizov, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Andrei Bely.
After the Revolution of 1917, Russian literature split into Soviet and white émigré parts. While the Soviet Union assured universal literacy and a highly developed book printing industry, it also enforced ideological censorship. In the 1930s Socialist realism became the predominant trend in Russia. Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style. Nikolay Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered has been among the most successful works of Russian literature. Alexander Fadeyev achieved success in Russia. Various émigré writers, such as poets Vladislav Khodasevich, Georgy Ivanov and Vyacheslav Ivanov; novelists such as Mark Aldanov, Gaito Gazdanov and Vladimir Nabokov; and short story Nobel Prize-winning writer Ivan Bunin, continued to write in exile. Some writers dared to oppose Soviet ideology, like Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in the gulag camps. The Khrushchev Thaw brought some fresh wind to literature and poetry became a mass cultural phenomenon. This thaw did not last long; in the 1970s, some of the most prominent authors were banned from publishing and prosecuted for their anti-Soviet sentiments.
The end of the 20th century was a difficult period for Russian literature, with few distinct voices. Among the most discussed authors of this period were Victor Pelevin, who gained popularity with short stories and novels, novelist and playwright Vladimir Sorokin, and the poet Dmitri Prigov. In the 21st century, a new generation of Russian authors appeared, differing greatly from the postmodernist Russian prose of the late 20th century, which lead critics to speak about new realism.
Russian authors have significantly contributed to numerous literary genres. Russia has five Nobel Prize in literature laureates. As of 2011, Russia was the fourth largest book producer in the world in terms of published titles. A popular folk saying claims Russians are the world's most reading nation.
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons ...
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...
in ENGLISH CC - екскурсія по Києву - Kyiv Tour - Киев KIEV Київ Ukraine
экскурсовод Ирина Алексеевна
Legend has it that three Slavic brothers and their sister founded Kyiv. The eldest, Kyi, gave the city its name. The names of brothers Shchek, Khoriv and sister Lybid now appear in its topography. An iconic statue of the four siblings - the Foundation of Kyiv Monument - stands on the banks of the Dnipro River.
In 989 Kyivan ruler Volodymyr decided to forge a closer alliance with Constantinople, marrying the emperor's daughter and adopt-ing Orthodox Christianity. Kyiv’s pagan idols were destroyed and its people were driven into the Dnipro for a mass baptism - an event still commemorated during Epiphany. (Eastern churches, following the Julian rather than the Gregorian calendar, have celebrated Epiphany (or Theophany) in conjunction with Christ's baptism by John the Baptist and celebrated it on January 19.)
In 1240 Mongol raiders sacked Kyiv.
The city shrank to the riverside district of Podil, which remained its center for centuries. Only when Ukraine formally passed into Russian hands at the end of the 18th century did Kyiv again grow in importance, as tsar-ist policies encouraged Russian immigration. The city went through an enormous boom at the tum of the 20th century because of an upsurge in nearby sugar milling. Many new mansions were erected at this time, including the remarkable House of Chimeras.
Kyiv’s modern centre and old city are on the Dnipro River’s west bank - called the ‘right bank’ because it’s on the right as you travel down the river. If you were to sail downstream into Kyiv from the north, your first port of cali on the right bank would be Podil, which sits below the rest of the city on the river plain. Continuing south, the woodsy, park-covered hills of the Pechersk district rise up from the river, ex-tending south to Kyiv’s main attraction, the Kievo-Pecherska Lavra.
The commercial heart of modern-day Kyiv -vul Khreshchatyk and maydan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square) - is above Podil and the river, west of Pechersks hills. The cit/s ancient centre, located around Zoloti Vorota and St Sophia’s Cathedral, is perched on a long hill overlooking, and running parallel to, vul Khreshchatyk.
Памятники Пам'ятник Київська русь
Золоті ворота Лавра Дніпро Центр 2,600,000 людей 10 районів
Хрещатик Бульвар Шевченка Саксаганський
Театр Купол Київський вокзал Полководець Щорс
Поділ бульвар Ботанічний сад Київський університет університет Драгоманова Володимирський собор Вознецов Врубель Нестеров Укр Пимоненко Сведомский Катордимский
Прахов Соборна площа Композитор Леонтович вул Богдана Хмельницького Центр науки і культури По вулиці Леонтовича Старокиївського центра Площа театральна Національного театру опера Головну вулицю Богдана Хмельницького Національна Опера України Вулиця Володимирівська
Ярославий вал 11 віці границі древнего города
Реконструкції Дивіться на право Вдоль служебных помещений Древний Киев был со всех сторон окружен
Ворота Ворот было Было трое Львовские Лядські ворота Золотые Старом валу Золотые ворота
Южние ворота Сквер Вал Музей Воротами были
Ярослав Мудрый Улица Прорезная Львовскою площади
Исторического центра Паралельно Крещатику
Древние оборонительные валы Много памятников истории 1900 году Ярослав Гашек Белый мраморный Грушевского
СБУ Мемориальная плита Вознецов Площадь Софиивская
Песенегами Софийский собор Софиивский государственный
Экскурсия В 11 веке в Софии Там был открыт первый центр
библиотека Богатых феодалов Дочерей которые стали
Королевами Франции Фрески И мозаики
В 37 году Возрадили Михайловский Внуке Ярослава Мудрого Михайловский Колокольню Куранты Православная Фронтоне
Архистратига Михаила Братьев Кличко Княгине Ольге
Кирилу Мефодию 200 метров Крещатик Бессарабская Майдан Незалежносты Реконструкция Анатолий Кущ Берегини
Ветку калины Первым киевлянам Консерватория
Козаку Мамаю глобус 5 почтовых годлубей
Трамвай Храм рождества Христова
Перевозили в Канны Улица
Гетмана Петра Конашевича Сагайдачного
Апостол
Киевомогилянской академии
И во всей восточной Европе
Желтое здание
Контрактовый дом
Встречались декабристы
Блок Сковороде Педагогу академии
Водопровод – фонтан Самсон
Солнечные часы
Под куполом
На Подоле были два огромных пожара
В 18 веке район
В 19
Старые – Липки – липового гая
Консульства и посольства
В 40-е 50-е годы
Корнейчк Головко Пащенко
Посольство Китая
Дом офицеров
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- Socrates
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor.
During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement, being among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and authoring poems such as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and created agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Communist Party and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, Mayakovsky's relationship with the Soviet state was always complex and often tumultuous. Mayakovsky often found himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet State in cultural censorship and the development of the State doctrine of Socialist realism. Works that contained criticism or satire of aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem Talking With the Taxman About Poetry (1926), and the plays The Bedbug (1929) and The Bathhouse (1929), were met with scorn by the Soviet state and literary establishment.
In 1930 Mayakovsky committed suicide. Even after death his relationship with the Soviet state remained unsteady. Though Mayakovsky had previously been harshly criticized by Soviet governmental bodies like the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), Joseph Stalin posthumously declared Mayakovsky the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet epoch.