About Pushkin House
We are an independent London arts charity specialising in Russian culture. Our Bloomsbury home is closed due to coronavirus but we are open in many other ways!
Pushkin House Description
Pushkin House is a Registered Charity owned and run by the Pushkin House Trust. We support and promote the splendour, richness and beauty of Russian culture in London and beyond. Pushkin House was established to serve as a home for high quality Russian culture in all its forms. Providing a focus for Anglo-Russian cultural exchange, education and information about the Russian language, arts, literature and music, we offer a resource for individuals and institutions alike.
In pursuit of these aims, Pushkin House has developed a lively and varied cultural programme on Russian literature, art, film, music, theatre and dance, as well as history, philosophy and politics. Events include lectures and talks, seminars, conferences, exhibitions, films, concerts and readings.
The House also has its own reference library of Russian culture.
Besides its own events, Pushkin House welcomes and encourages collaboration with other institutions and groups dedicated to Russian culture. The House currently hosts lectures run by the Pushkin Club and the GB-Russia Society. Regular Russian language courses are provided by the Russian Language Centre. Creative partnerships are being established with major museums and libraries in Russia.
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The surrealist, wordless studies of Bogdan Dziworski remain the most original works of communist era Polish non-fiction filmmaking. Getting their due resurgence in retrospective at this year's Open City Documentary Festival - Sat 8 Sept, Regent St Cinema: bit.ly/2vkKFk8
An evenings of songs and piano music by Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Medtner and their lesser-known contemporaries
This concert offers a retrospective of Russian song and piano music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period referred to – particularly with reference to literature, but increasingly to music also – as the Silver Age of Russian culture. While the names of Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and now Medtner are well-known to international audiences, many of their contemp...
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This concert tells the story of the meteoric rise of Russian pianism from its foundations in John Field - inventor of the Nocturne - and Adolph Henselt - teacher of Rachmaninov’s teacher - to the summit of Russian Romanticism, offering a unique chance to hear the soaring melodies of Glazunov and Blumenfeld in their historical context.
Daniel Grimwood’s interest in Russian music was awakened as a child through his friendship with the scholar Richard Beattie Davis who introduce...
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Please join us for a conversation between Dr. Michael Nicholson of University College, Oxford, and Donald Rayfield who recently translated and published a book of Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales.
Kolyma Stories is a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the fifteen years that Varlam Shalamov spent in the Soviet Gulag. This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the firs...
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Join us for an evening of performed readings from the family’s letters and diaries, as well as correspondence from the people who knew them. There will also be recitals of Russian poetry (in English and Russian) which capture the spirit of the time. From the team that brought the theatrical production of Anastasia to Pushkin House. (four stars, Evening Standard).
“Every morning the commandant comes to our rooms: at last after a week brought eggs again for Baby…. Played bezi...que with Nicky. 10:30 to bed. 15 degrees.” From Alexandra’s final diary entry 16 July, 1918
One hundred years ago, on July 17th 1918, in the early hours of the morning,the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas, his wife Alexandra and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia and Alexei were executed in the Ipatiev house, Ekaterinburg. This will be an evening where we remember not their horrific death but their life together as a loving family. Using their letters, diary entries and little notes to one another we will bring to life their private thoughts and messages through their own words. Told chronologically, we will journey with the Romanovs up until their last diary entries on that fateful night of 16/17th July 1918. We would love for you to come and join us. In English. This event is part of our Romanov Season.
Enchanted Would Films are currently in pre-production of their short film ‘Piotr’. Told through the eyes of the youngest daughter, it is the story of the Romanov family’s final fateful night: a poignant tale of family love, hope and the message that if we harm another we are tied to them forever.
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What sad news. RIP.
On the Pushkin House Podcast - historian Helen Rappaport joins us to talk about her new book The Race to Save the Romanovs, ahead of her event at Pushkin House this autumn. http://bit.ly/2MlTV0Y
Friends, don't miss out! It's the last week of our wonderful exhibition 'Amateur Bird Watching at Passport Control' by Alina Bliumis. Have a listen to this lovely podcast interview with Alina which doubles up as an exhibition guide. http://bit.ly/2vDjvVU
New to our blog - Dr Peter Lowe throws the spotlight on ‘degenerate art’ and Russian artists, as seen in the timely exhibition at London’s The Wiener Library.