In this issue
In late June 2010, the Russkiy Mir Foundation celebrated the third anniversary of the signing of the presidential decree that established the organization.
Irina Lukyanova Kuprin’s Truth
They say that when Alexander Kuprin returned to Russia in 1937, the powers that be decided that he would live in a small house in Gatchina, where he had lived from 1911 to 1919. This was a little green house, number 19 on Elizavetinskaya Ulitsa (present Dostoevsky Street), a minute dacha that is dwarfed by today’s cottages in on the outskirts of Moscow.
Olesya Chikina British Reserve
When in a foreign country, people tend to seek out an environment in which they can speak their native language. And this is natural, as the familiar is comforting and the sound of one’s native speech is perhaps one of the familiar sounds of all.
News
In Elanskaya and in Podolsk. Russian Monuments in the Baltic Regions. 300th Anniversary of Riga’s Joining the Russian Empire.
Vera Medvedeva The Most Important Thing Is to Love, And You Can Always Find Something to Love
She was the voice of Barbara Brylskaya in the Irony of Fate, one of the fools who turns into an elegant women in the Zigzags of Luck, and her role as the house manager in Afony was perhaps the most touching of all Soviet managers.
Lyubov Rumyantseva Guardian Angel
Mikhail Bobrov is a living legend. His native city of St. Petersburg owns him much: if it were not for his efforts during the blockade there’s no saying how the city’s fate would have turned out.
Evgeny Rezepov The Secret of the Garnet Bracelet
Academic Albert Tsvetkov travels no less than two-three times a year to the village of Narovchat, where the Alexander Kuprin museum is located. And he always critically examines the items of the museum’s exposition.
Valentina Perevedentseva The Phoenix Hunter
Have you ever noticed on the walls of old buildings metal sheets that have grown dark from time and weather?
Anna Pelegova Repeating the Past
Interest in Russian language is on the rise in Uzbekistan. What is pushing this trend?
Oksana Prilepina In Search of Tranquility
An old cement mixer, pile of sand and a cathedral hidden under scaffolding. For now these are the only decorations here in this new wooden arbor with bells.
Lyudmila Rumyantseva No Obedient Children Allowed
The creators of the St. Petersburg Upsala-Circus half seriously suggest that their brainchild is a circus for hooligans.
Mikhail Bykov What Was That War Called?
September 2, 1945, World War 2 came to an end. Sixty-five years have passed.
Arina Kazanova The Virtuoso
Denis Matsuev is a virtuoso of the sort that we haven’t seen in a long time. A balance of mastery and passion.
Vladimir Emelyanenko “We are called to serve, not to rule”
Why would one of the best violinist in the world, the director and creator of the Virtuosos of Moscow and the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, decide in 2010 to also head the CIS Youth Symphonic Orchestra?
Alla Berezovskaya Simply Larisa
At the awards ceremony for the Peoples’ Friendship Order at the Russian embassy in Latvia, one of the young Riga television interviewers asked this renowned tennis player: “How should I introduce you?” “Simply Larissa,” she responded.
Alexei Urazov Photographer of the World
9:00 am. Moscow. Zhukov Monument, Manezh Square. A group of Japanese tourists pose before an eccentric man with a camera. At first glance I did not realize that this man was Monsieur Bonnville with whom I had agreed to meet.
Sergei Vinogradov The English Classic with a Vologda Accent
Only one person in Vologda is celebrating the 86th anniversary of the death of the British classic Joseph Conrad.
Pavel Vasiliev Archive Detectives
One time in our room with five people a short snort of laughter sounded from the corner. Volodka Bashilov had found something funny.
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