Days of Moscow have ended in German Leipzig. Numerous meetings, cultural, sports and business events were held as part of a large-scale event under the slogan Moscow – Leipzig. The delegation, run by Sergey Cheremin, the Head of the Moscow Department for Foreign Economic and International Relations, included administration representatives, cultural figures, businessmen and sportsmen.
The Russian guests were able to surprise a very demanding and competent Leipzig public, Svetlana Solovyova writes. The children's writer Anna Goncharova shared the secrets of writing with young readers in the Fairy Tale Algorithm game. They offered each other words and ideas for their own fairy tale called The Tiger who Wanted to Go to School. Thanks to simultaneous translation, German-speaking children took an active part in the game. After the meeting, there appeared a long line of young admirers wanted to get a popular author's autograph.
A concert of art masters with the participation of soloists of the Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasilyov's State Academic Theater of Classical Ballet was held in the Congress Hall. The soloists of the Helikon-Opera Moscow Musical Theater performed arias from The Barber of Seville by Rossini and Carmen by Bizet. The concert also included representatives of the Leipzig Opera and Mary Murphy Schroeder Ballet Company as well as the Leipzig High School of Music and Theater.
The Faces of Beauty exhibition was a major cultural event at the Museum of the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Leipzig. At the opening ceremony the Consul General of Russia A. Dronov noted the great importance of this exposition, stressing the importance of developing the intercultural relations of Russia and Germany. A series of printings, presented by the Tropinin Museum, was made in 1860 by the famous German engraver Andreas Fleischmann with 36 picturesque portraits of the Munich beauties painted by Joseph Karl Stiler. Presenting the collection, the museum director O. Zhuravleva drew attention to the portraits of 19th century Russian aristocrats by the German painter K.I. Lasha, a native resident of Leipzig, who lived 10 years in Russia.
Moscow and Leipzig are linked by many years of cooperation thanks to joint projects in the field of protection of monuments, the economic and cultural spheres, and tourism.
Burkhard Jung, the Leipzig Oberburgermeister, and his Moscow counterpart Sergey Sobyanin signed an extensive cooperation agreement between the two cities in April 2014. Leipzig also maintains contacts with Tomsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and the village of Leipzig in the Ural.
Russkiy Mir
