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The capital of Romania hosts the Days of Russian Culture, TASS reports. According to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation Valery Kuzmin, the festival, which was already the ninth in a row, has turned into a large, wide open window over the years of its holding. It allows residents of the country to become more acquainted with modern Russia through classical art and folk traditions.
Days of Russian culture began on October 17 with a performance by pianist Eduard Kunts and accordion player Yury Medyanik. The concert was timed to coincide with the start of the Russia - the Territory of the Future photo exhibition. The festival program is complemented by screenings of Russian features. The recent works of Russian directors will be presented to the attention of Bucharest residents. The audience will see the features that had great success at the box office Including Flight Crew (2016), Going Vertical (2017), The Balkan Line (2019) and others.
The life and work of the opera soloist Lydia Lipkovskaya will be the main theme of the creative evening. Larisa Gergieva, who heads the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers, will make a speech about her along with Romanian musicologist Octavian Lazar Cosma.
The representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Bucharest will invite everyone to the Wheel of History exhibition. It covers the main events of Russian history in the twentieth century. Another exposition will tell about the history of the Dmitry Donskoy tank column. It was dedicated to the upcoming Victory Day. Tanks were built at the expense of worshippers, the Russian Orthodox Church collected the money.
There will also be an exhibition and sale of Pavlovo Posad headscarves and shawls, a Christmas fair. An integral part of the festival will be the Days of Tatarstan. The Alif, a play about the fate of the Tatar script is included in the program. The folk ensemble Rivayat will perform, an exhibition of the works of the artist Radik Musin will take place.
Russia will also take part in the Gaudeamus International Book Fair.
Russkiy Mir
