Artlife 21st Anniversary Tomsk, Russia
The Golden Gate of Vikram Seth and its Russian translation. Pushkin House, November 23.
Please note, due to unforseen circumstances Vikram Seth is no longer able to participate in this event.
Vikram Seth's first book The Golden Gate is a novel in verse inspired by Eugene Onegin. Thirty years later after its publication in 1986, it has finally been translated into Russian by publishing house Rudomino in conjunction with the British Council. Translated by Russian poet and translator Andrei Olear, the book is illustrated by artist Ekaterina Margolis. Come and hear Olear and Margolis discussing the original book, its translation and reception in Russia. This is a joint event of Pushkin Club and ARCC (Anglo-Russian Culture Club)
Set in the 1980s, The Golden Gate follows a group of yuppies in San Francisco. The inciting action occurs when protagonist John Brown has his friend Janet Hayakawa place an amorous advertisement of himself in the newspaper; the latter answered, at length, by trial-lawyer Elisabeth ('Liz') Dorati. A short heyday follows, in which Seth introduces and develops a variety of characters united in part by their interest in self-actualization (often in the form of agriculture) and in part by closeness to Liz or John. Thereafter is depicted the progress of their marriage de facto until its dissolution, which results in the legal marriage of Liz to John's friend 'Phillip ('Phil') Weiss', and the birth of their son. Following his rejection of Liz, John finds a second paramour in Janet, until the latter and two other friends die in an automobile collision; and is himself invited to stand godfather to Liz's son...
Seth says of Eugene Onegin, which he first read in the 1980s - 'I must have read it five times that month. It was addictive. And suddenly, I realized that this was the form I was looking for to tell my tales of California. The little short stories I had in my mind subsided and this more organically oriented novel came into being. I loved the form, the ability that Pushkin had to run through a wide range of emotions, from absolute flippancy to real sorrow and passages that would make you think, during and after reading it.
Biographies
Andrey Olear – born in 1963 in Tomsk, Russia. Graduated from the Tomsk State University with the degree in Journalism. Among the writer's interests is horse riding and artistic photography.Translations include Shakespeare's Sonnets, Brodsky's original poetry and collections of translated poems by Leonard Cohen.
Katia Margolis was born in Moscow in 1973. She is an artist, writer, translator, illustrator, graphic designer and teacher. She has lived and worked in Venice for over ten years. Her paintings and installations have been regularly exhibited in Venice, Moscow and St. Petersburg. There are examples of her work in collections throughout Europe, the USA and Russia.
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast of Russia
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1. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast is a federal subject of Russia in the Russian Far East. Article 65 of the Constitution of Russia provides that the JAO is Russia's only autonomous oblast. It is one of two official Jewish territories in the world, the other being Israel. As of the 2010 Census, JAO's population was 176,558 people, or 0.1% of the total population of Russia. By 2010, according to data provided by the Russian Census Bureau, there were only 1,628 Jews remaining in the JAO (less than 1% of the population), while ethnic Russians made up 92.7% of the JAO population. Judaism is practiced by only 0.2% of the population of the JAO.
2. This rarely visited province was established by Stalin as an attempt to boost the population of the Soviet Far East as well as to appease Zionist movements within the USSR (which were contradictory to Soviet dogma). The Oblast's Jewish status has led to some odd Soviet-Jewish art, such as the menorah monument in the city center, but did not lead to mass Jewish immigration - Jews constitute only about 2% (although there are some reports that is is up to 16%) of this region's population.
3. Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
4. Despite considerable efforts made by the Soviet authorities and foreign aid, the development of the region was very slow. The Soviet leadership hoped that the Jewish population of the Birsko-Bidzhan district would reach 60,000 by 1933 and 150,000 by 1938. However, in 1928-1929, only 2,825 Jews came to the region, of whom 1,725 left Birobidzhan by the end of 1929.In 1928-1934, 19,635 Jews arrived in Birobidzhan and 11,450 left it. The project of the relocation of Jews from abroad failed completely. Only 500 foreigners arrived in the region, including 80 from Argentina and 150 from Lithuania.
5. There is a project to join the EAO to the Khabarovsk Territory . Another proposal is the accession of the EAO to the Amur Region with the formation of the Amur Region. Among the local media and some Jewish public organizations, there are opponents of projects to abolish the EA (for example, Birobidzhaner Stern and EAOmedia and supporters of its further development as an original Jewish administrative entity. The project for the abolition of the EAO continues to be actively discussed.
6. One of the stranger parts of Birobidzhan’s story is that although it was meant as a Jewish statelet, religious Judaism was alien to Soviet atheism and thus frowned upon. The local museum contains Yiddish leaflets warning locals not to celebrate Passover, and Sarashevskaya leafed through back issues of Birobidzhan Shtern from the 1980s, pointing out that although the newspaper was in Yiddish it contained no discussion of either Judaism or Israel.
7. If the local government gets its way, more Jews would move to the region, especially some of those who left in the early 1990s. Rostislav Goldstein, the senator for the region in Russia’s upper house of parliament, said Birobidzhan’s proximity to China could provide advantages for Israeli businesses wanting to crack the Chinese market.
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Pushed to Insanity
Tomsk 2010
Accompanied by Prokofiev's 'Visions Fugitives' Op. 22 performed by Barbara Nissman, a dreamy tour through Siberia's city of knowledge in 2010. Music recorded in 1988 was made available for this video by special arrangement. Information on the recording is available at barbaranissman.com . More about the journey from Moscow to Tomsk is offered in the YouTube video 'Ticket to Tomsk'.
Dak Houze - Человеческий выбор (piano version) Live @ M-Art
Dak Houze - Человеческий выбор (piano version)
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Vladimir Putin Moscow State University
Vladimir Putin visited the historical building of Moscow State University at Mokhovaya Street ahead of Russian Students Day.
During his visit to the MSU Museum of Anthropology, the President was shown the veil from the reliquary of St Zosima of Solovki (died on April 17, 1478), a co-founder of the Solovetsky Monastery. The image embroidered in gold thread on gold cloth was found in the museum’s collection in 2017 and subsequently restored at the Grabar Art Conservation Centre. According to the centre’s experts, the veil was manufactured at the turn of the 19th century. A similar veil of St Zosima made in 1661 is kept in the collection of the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg.
Vladimir Putin also met with MSU students, who showed him their designs for a digital culture and education centre for students and for the National Student Theatre Festival. They also told the President about the LANAT School Research Laboratory, which aims to encourage talented children to get involved in research projects.
Franz Nicolay - I was wrong live in Tomsk (Russia)
A DAY WITH RUSSIAN FAMILY in SIBERIA at - 22°C |First Experience of Russian House, Culture, FOOD etc
Hello All,
This is my first destination in Russia (AZOVO) a Russian village. This was my first experience with Russian Village, Russian Home & Russian Family. I learned a little bit of Russian culture, their living and tradition. Meet my friend and counchsurfing host Polina who made my stay a pleasant one in AZOVO. She took me to village ride and told me her traveling experience. Watch out the video and do tell in comment How Was the Episode?'
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HINDI
हैलो सभी को,
यह एक रूसी गांव रूस (AZOVO) में मेरा पहला गंतव्य है। यह रूसी गांव, रूसी घर और रूसी परिवार के साथ मेरा पहला अनुभव था। मैंने थोड़ी बहुत रूसी संस्कृति, उनके रहने और परंपरा को सीखा। मेरे दोस्त और counchsurfing मेजबान पोलिना से मिलें, जिसने मुझे AZOVO में एक सुखद प्रवास दिया। वह मुझे गाँव की सवारी पर ले गई और मुझे अपने यात्रा के अनुभव के बारे में बताया। वीडियो देखें और कमेंट में बताएं एपिसोड कैसा था?
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RUSSIAN
Всем привет,
Это мой первый пункт назначения в России (AZOVO) в русской деревне. Это был мой первый опыт общения с Русской Деревней, Русским Домом и Русской семьей. Я немного изучил русскую культуру, их жизнь и традиции. Познакомьтесь с моей подругой и хозяйкой по серфингу Полиной, которая сделала мое пребывание в Азово приятным. Она отвезла меня в деревню и рассказала о своем путешествии. Посмотрите видео и скажите в комментарии Как прошел эпизод?
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The Star House of Bonchinche' performing in da Siberian Spring Vogue Ball 2013
Elena Ninja-Bonchinche'
Smetana Ninja-Bonchinche'
Dmitriy Ninja-Bonchinche'
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Leontii Usov, a master sculpter in Tomsk, Siberia
Leontii Usov is a brilliant, internationally acclaimed sculpter of wood. His creations ooze originality.
RUSSIA: MOSCOW: KREMLIN'S FIRST MAJOR ART EXHIBITION IN SEVEN YEARS
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The Kremlin in Moscow opened the doors Wednesday to show off its new art treasures in its first major exhibition in seven years.
On display are 370 exhibits, including a rare Faberge dandelion and jewelry hidden from the Bolsheviks during the 1917 revolution.
The treasures are part of a collection of over five-thousand artifacts that the Kremlin has acquired since 1988 and will be on display for four months.
Moscow's Kremlin museum has been on a spending spree.
Since 1988, it has acquired more than five-thousand new treasures.
Among the glittering riches that are open to the public until November was this diamond-studded lizard - and these engraved swords.
But Olga Kastrikhin, a senior researcher at the Kremlin Museum, had eyes for other exhibits.
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The most outstanding exhibits are the decorated dandelion made by the firm of Karl Faberge and the same company produced the clock which was made by the artist Mikhail Perkhin, the man who made the famous Easter eggs for the Imperial family.
SUPER CAPTION: Olga Kastrikhin - senior researcher Kremlin Museum
The exceedingly valuable silver-and-gold Faberge dandelion stands eight inches high in a crystal vase.
Delicate strands of silver form the flower's fluff, tipped by tiny diamonds.
The dandelion pre-dates the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
Faberge, the famous St. Petersburg jewelry house that made jewelry for the Imperial household, did not survive the Communist take-over.
Hard-up Russians may be wondering how the Kremlin paid for these valuable works of art.
SOUNDBITE: (In Russian)
The museum itself spends provides part of the funds used for purchases, the Ministry gives funds but we are greatly helped by sponsors.
SUPER CAPTION: Olga Kastrikhin, senior researcher Kremlin Museum
Most treasures were bought from private collectors or from auctions - for undisclosed sums.
But the museum also struck lucky.
Researchers found more than 34-hundred Russian and Polish coins from the 16th and 17th centuries on the Kremlin grounds last year.
And during the renovation of a Moscow apartment building in 1990, workers found a jewelry collection that belonged to one of Faberge's directors, Vladimir Averkiyev.
Apparently, Averkiyev hid the jewelry during property seizures by the Bolsheviks.
Some pieces were donated by the former President Mikhail Gorbachev - but nobody was saying which.
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W. H. Basley's GALOPADE QUADRILLE
Danced at a ball in Kirov, Russia, to music by Kirov's full symphony orchestra. This is an exact reconstruction of all five figures, as described in The Dancer's Assistant, London, circa 1870. Discovered and reconstructed by Richard Powers. The music is a suite of Strauss galopades that would have been known in 1870. I don't know why the dancers chose to perform the five figures in the order of 1-3-2-4-5, perhaps a preference of the orchestra, but all five figures are complete. The written reconstruction, with detailed footnotes, is here:
Russia - Pyramid theory for curing social problems
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Pyramids constructed by Russian engineer Alexander Golod with fibreplastic have been seen to exhibit properties that have caught the attention of scientists and agriculturalists. Resistance to disease seems to be increased in people and animals exposed to the pyramids. Golod claims that energy given out by pyramids can stop water freezing when cooled down inside them to minus 40 degrees celsius. When shaken the liquid turns into a lump of ice in seconds. Golod has developed his own theory to explain these phenomena. According to him, the space around us has become distorted with the passage of time, leading to an increase in the incidence of disease, natural calamities and social unrest. He says the pyramids help restore the natural form of distorted space.
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OSTASHKOVO (370 km North West from Moscow), RUSSIA RECENT:
PAN from road with moving truck to pyramid;
zoom out from sun into pyramid;
vertical pan inside pyramid to Russian engineer Alexander Golod taking a bottle of water;
cu of bottle being shaken and water turning into ice;
SOT Golod in Russian: The distorted space leads to wars, earthquakes, social unrest, regional conflicts, economic problems - in general all our down to earth problems. What does the pyramid do? In the area of its influence directly or indirectly in straightens out the structure of space and brings it to harmony.;
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VS of the pyramid being built;
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SOT Golod: If we work with the regions with the help of pyramids I think the situation there will drastically change in 1 or 2 years. Similar problems can be found in Olster, Karabakh, Middle East, Pendjab Kashmir, Yugoslavia. In my opinion the regional conflicts and crime can be fought only by these means.;
RAMENSKOYE, MOSCOW 03/03
Plane flying over pyramid,
07/03 Russian Air Defence regiment, Ostashkovo.
Radar antenna moving;
SOT captain of Air Defence regiment, in Russian: We were given a task of watching activity at the Ostashkovo puramid which is located at athimuth 39, range 60 from us. Indeed we observe a mark of activity there on altitude of up to 1200 metres and about 500 metres wide.;
CU of radar screen with captain showing with finger at the mark.
OSTASHKOVO. 7/3
VS night shots of pyramid in Ostashkovo.
4.03
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What Russians Want In 2020
Current Time asked people across Russia, from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg to Vladivostok, about their hopes for 2020.
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Slavic Mythology
Slavic Mythology, Folk and Fairy Tales FILM
Slavic Mythology in Russian - Славянская Mифология на русском языке
The first Museum of Slavic mythology has been existed in Tomsk since 2007. It was created by Gennadii Mikhailovich Pavlov. The Museum is located in a three-storey building behind Voskresenskaya hill. Today it is a historical part of the city and the center of Slavic culture in Tomsk.
The Museum is unique and doesn’t have any counterparts in the world. It’s collection consists of paintings by modern Russian artists, and these paintings are connected by a common subject – the mythology of our ancestors, the ancient Slavs and their heroic past, Russian fairy tales and customs. The talented artists of these paintings, no matter how different they are in style, are united in their desire to recreate this legendary world of the ancient Slavs, to make it visible for other people through art. It really feels as if the Gods and heroes of ancient Slavic culture are looking at you from the paintings.
The first Museum of Slavic mythology aims to discover, research, collect and popularize works of art created by talented artists of Russia.
Victor A. Korolkov «Makosh» The goddess of fertility, the patroness of the crop, of destiny and good luck.
V. A. Korolkov «M?rana» Morana is a Slavic goddess of lifeless and slepping of the nature.
V. A. Korolkov «The Slavic saga»
V. A. Korolkov «The fern blossoming»
V. A. Korolkov «Flying around the world» Baba-Yaga (on the picture) is a Slavic witch
V. A. Korolkov «The crying of the house spirits» The world in Slavic tradition is full of spirits who live around the people.
V. A. Korolkov «Peruniza»
V. A. Korolkov «Karachun»
V. A. Korolkov «Radegast» Radegast - the Deity of battle glory and war ¬of the western Slavs. Radegast is represented as an armed man.
V. A. Korolkov «The bathhouse spirit» Steam baths are well-known in many European countries, but maybe only in Russia is the steam-bathing “banya” tradition such a subject of national pride and an attribute of Russianness, and rightly so. It is known more than two thousand years ago.
V. A. Korolkov «Chislobog. The God of the arithmetics»
V. A. Korolkov «The transformation» In folk tales swan-like maidens are very beautiful creatures, possessing seductive and prophetic powers.
V. A. Korolkov «Lel – the sovereign of the birds» Lyel is the God of love and tenderness. The image of Lyel can be found in Russian spiritual songs, wedding folk poetry, lullabies
V. A. Korolkov «The light-winged shallop»
V. A. Korolkov «Stribog» Stribog is the supreme ruler of the winds.
Andrey Klimenko «Perun» Perun is the God of the Thunder-storm and Lightning, he is the rainmaker. Perun was the same asZeus (the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology) and Thor (the hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, oak trees and strength in Norse mythology). The word «Perun» goes back to an era of the unity of Indo-European speaking people
Andrey Klimenko «Svarog the ancestor»
Andrey Klimenko «Veles» God Veles
Andrey Klimenko «The fairy-tales of Russian forest»
Andrey Klimenko «The Dream about Dazhdbog’s chariot» The main character in the picture is the Prince of Kiev, SvyatoslavThe Brave, zealot of paganism
Boris M.Olshanskii «The warrior’s birth»
B. M. Olshanskii «The prediction»
B. M. Olshanskii «Dnieper battle»
B. M. Olshanskii «The prediction»
Vyacheslav Nazaruk «The Battle»
B. M. Olshanskii «Dazhdbog»
V. M. Nazaruk «Vagri»
Anna Vinogradova «Petrushka» (Diptych « The past is close»)
Z. F. Lavrentyev «The soul of the forest»
V. M. Nazaruk «Boyan» (from the triptych «The Lay of Igor's Raid »)
Sergey Panasenko (Бог ветра) « Позвизд / God of Wind
Sergey Panasenko « Spirit of fire
Sergey Panasenko « Spirit of Sea
Sergey Panasenko « Матушка Земля /Mother Earth
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Karina Ninja judge performance at Animal fashion vogue ball in Tomsk city (Russia)
Pyramid Complex in Tomsk proposed by Valery Uvarov and Project 12.
Publicado el 17.7.2017
Video of the Pyramid Complex in Tomsk proposed by Valery Uvarov and Project 12.
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SIBERIAN VOGUE BALL 2015: OPENING SHOW OF THE SIBERIAN VOGUE BALL
OPENING SHOW OF THE SIBERIAN VOGUE BALL:
ANTIENT GREECE THEME (Novosibirsk, Russia 3.05.2015)
Elena Ninja (Bonchinche'), Dima Ninja-Bonchinche, Danielle Ninja, Aviance Milan, Dashaun Lanvin
I was so happy to have these beautiful legends of vogue in 1 place at my homeland Novosibirsk at our event SIBPROKACH)
by fraules dance centre
Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2017: Daniel Beer, The House of the Dead (Allen Lane)
Shortlisted author Daniel Beer describes his book 'The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars'.