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The Russian Seasons cultural project will start on Thursday, January 16, in Paris, TASS reports. It is expected that the project will turn into a key event in the cultural life of France. The opening ceremony will be held at the Odeon Theater.
The program of Russian Seasons in France will open with the tour of the Theater of Nations and Chekhov’s play Uncle Vanya. The writer was chosen by the host, as France wanted the project to begin with the Russian classics.
Russian-French cultural contacts have a long history. Pushkin spoke good French. The Art Russian Academy, which was created in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century, attracted Picasso and Modigliani.
The international cultural project of modern Russia owes its name to the Russian Ballet Seasons of the last century. Diaghilev's troupe was the first Russian ballet company to work abroad. Its founder discovered the diversity of Russian art in the Old World.
The richness and diversity of the culture of modern Russia will be in the spotlight in France all year. The patriarchal choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior will perform in Paris and Versailles cathedrals. Soloists of the Galina Vishnevskaya School of Opera Singing and scholars of the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation will perform in Strasbourg. The audience in Bordeaux will be able to see the concert of the Siberian Dance Ensemble from Krasnoyarsk, in Marseilles - the performance of the Opera and Ballet Theater of Astrakhan, the ballet troupe from the capital of Bashkiria will come to Dijon, the Boris Eifman Theater will visit Nice, and the Pyatnitsky choir - Toulouse.
The anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic war will also be celebrated in the framework of the Russian Seasons. The Shoulder to Shoulder exposition prepared by military historians and an exhibition of the works of military photographer Yevgeny Chaldey are included in the program.
Russkiy Mir
reported that the program of the international festival would comprise about two hundred and seventy different events. They will cover almost sixty-five cities.
Russian museums intend to show French art lovers many masterpieces from their collections that rarely leave Russia. Visitors will see the works of Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and other prominent impressionists from the collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery. For the first time, Russian Seasons will go beyond the borders of one country. Belgium and Luxembourg will join France.
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