RUSSIAN CULTURE NEWS ____________ http://museum.ru/defengl.htm ___________________ Edition N 209 Jule 30, 2002 Number of subscribers 1754 issued from October 1997. ______________________________________________________ We have no budget to support an old english vertion of the Museums of Russia web portal www.museum.ru, as well as finishing the constructing the new one. You are welcome to become a sponsor to finish the english part of the webportal constructing. You (your company) will be mentioned on the main pages and 45.000 visitors will thank You monthly for the support. We need 18.500 Euros for 84 days to complete the english version. Contact us, please. ([email protected]) Your help makes the Russian museums open for the internet society! You may try to access the old version http://192.168.0.100/defengl.htm, which will be unavailable soon. ______________________________________________________ -= CONTENTS =- 1. World of Japanese Book 2. Affection For Green Mountains 3. Cultural Heritage of Moldova 4. Classics of Russian Photography. Dmitry Baltermants 5. Lively Values of Russian Orthodox Tradition 6. Photography as a Basis for Painting 7. Duet of Artists 8. Contemporary British Printed Graphic Art 9. Uniform of Russian Army During the Reign of Pavel I 10. About Political Repressions Through Exhibition 11. International Exhibition of Caves -= 1 =- World of Japanese Book State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts invites you to the opening of the exhibition "Among Beauties and Flowers" (The World of Japanese Book of 18-19th centuries). The exhibition is organized by the School of Landscape Design. On display there is one of the best parts of museum collection of the Japanese art of 18-19th centuries. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Addres: Moscow, 12, Ulitsa Volkchonka Direction: metro station 'Kropotinskaya' Phones: (095) 203-9578, 203-7998, 203-7412 URL: www.museum.ru/gmii E-mail: [email protected] -= 2 =- Affection For Green Mountains In State Museum of the East there is the exhibition of paintings by Lu Sun. At the exhibition one can see 32 works created in the last years by the person who has been an artist for a half of a century. This is the first demonstration of works by Lu Sun in Moscow. Great mountains, boundless sky, rough waters of deep rivers - the elements that are the most interesting theme for the artist. But "Affection For Green Mountains" includes not only epic canvas but also wonderful details snatched from the scene of the world. The State Museum of Oriental Art Addres: Moscow, 12a, Nikitsky Boulevard Direction: From Metro Stations Arbatskaya, Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya or Chekhovskaya, take either trolleybus 15 or 31 Phones: (095) 291-0341, 291-9614, 202-4555 -= 3 =- Cultural Heritage of Moldova Museum of Russian Manor Culture "Kuzminki" invites you to visit photographic exhibition "Cultural Heritage of Moldova". Through the pictures with views of nature, of architectural ensembles of the past and the present, of monuments of material culture one can see the history of Moldova. Every photographic work lets us feel the commonness of fates of Russia and Moldova. The country estate "Kuzminki" Addres: Moscow, 6, Topolevaya alley Phones: 377-9457 -= 4 =- Classics of Russian Photography. Dmitry Baltermants Within the frameworks of the program "Classics of Russian Photography" the Museum "Moscow House of Photography" is glad to present retrospective review of world famous Soviet photo reporter Dmitry Baltermants. The retrospective review is dated for the 90-year birthday of the author. Dmitry Baltermants' visual language seems to be more understandable for western experts and viewers if to compare with other contemporary photographers. Therefore he is one of not so many Soviet photographers who managed to win the recognition abroad. Moscow House of Photography Addres: Moscow, 16, Ostozhenka Phones: (095) 202-7612 URL: www.mdf.ru E-mail: [email protected] -= 5 =- Lively Values of Russian Orthodox Tradition On 13 July there was the opening of the exhibition "Lively Values of Russian Orthodox Tradition" in Marble Hall of Russian Ethnographic Museum. The exhibition consists of the collection of Holiest Patriarchy of Moscow and All Russia, of funds of Russian Ethnographic Museum and State Museum and Reserve "Isaakievsky Cathedral". This exhibition is a considerable cultural event which includes not only religious aspects but temporal ones as well. The Russian Museum of Ethnography Addres: Saint-Peterburg, 4/1, Ulitsa Inzhenernaya Direction: Metro Stations: 'Nevsky Prospect', 'Gostiny Dvor' Phones: (812) 210-4421 URL: www.ethnomuseum.ru E-mail: [email protected] -= 6 =- Photography as a Basis for Painting In Marble Palace there is the exhibition of works by Vitaly Pushnitsky "INTROSPECTION". Vitaly Pushnitsky was born in 1967. Now he lives and works in Saint Petersburg. The artist is known better in the European countries where several of his personal exhibitions took place. Project "INTROSPECTION" has joined several series of works created by Pushnitsky during the last two years. The Marble Palace Addres: Saint-Peterburg, 5/1, Millionnaya Ulitsa Direction: From either metro station Gostiny Dvor or Nevsky Prospect, take any of the following: buses 25, 46, 134; trams 2, 12, 34, 32, 54 Phones: (812) 312-9196, 312-9054 -= 7 =- Duet of Artists Elaginoostrovsky Palace and Museum invites you to the exhibition of paintings and drawings by Alexander Kondurov and Lusya Kovaleva-Kondurova "Duet". Initiators of the projects: Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Kirov, Elaginoostrovsky Palace and Museum of Russian Arts and Crafts and pf Interior of the end of the 18th - beginning of the 20th century, Alexander Kondurov and Lusya Kovaleva-Kondurova. The exhibition is held in the exhibition hall of the ground floor of Konushenny Building of the Museum. Elagin Island Palace-Museum of Russian Decorative and Applied Art and Interior Design 18th - 20th centuries Addres: Saint-Peterburg, 4, Elagin island Direction: "Chernaya Rechka" metro station; bus 71, 134; tram. 17, 26; troll. 9 Phones: (812) 430-1130, 430-1131, 430-0131 -= 8 =- Contemporary British Printed Graphic Art British Council, Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fontanny House and Saint Petersburg Center of Book and Graphic are glad to present the exhibition of contemporary printed graphic art "In Print". The exhibition is held in two exhibition halls - in Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fontanny House and in Saint Petersburg Center of Book and Graphic at the same time. On display there are 118 works by 25 artits that represent different periods of the history of contemporary British art - from the post-war time till the famous generation YBA. Museum of Anna Akhmatova in Fountain House Addres: Saint-Peterburg, 34, Fontanka emb.; 53, Liteyny Prospect Phones: (812) 272-2211 URL: http://www.artexpocom.spb.ru/Akhmatova/ E-mail: [email protected] -= 9 =- Uniform of Russian Army During the Reign of Pavel I "Alpine Soldiers" - this is the title of the exhibition which was opened in the rotunda of the Pavilion of Roses of State Museum and Reserve "Pavlovsk" on 18 July. On display there is uniform of Russian armed forces during the reign of Pavel I (about 50 exhibits from Memorial Museum of Suvorov) - coats of servicemen of senior and junior ranks, water-coloured works and lithographs picturing army officers, grenadiers' caps and the drum of dragoon regiments. State Museum and Estate "Pavlovsk" Addres: Leningrad region, 20, Revolutsii Ulitsa, Pavlovsk town Direction: Electric train from Vitebsky vokzal or from platform "Kupchino" to st. "Pavlovsk" Phones: (812) 470-6536 -= 10 =- About Political Repressions Through Exhibition In Tula Samovar Museum there is exhibition "Political Repressions in Tula Region in 1917-1987". On display there are photos and archive documents telling us about people who were subject to political prosecution, certificates about stay in prisons, camps and exile, prisoners' letters, relatives' applications to the state and party institution. Works made by Boris Sveshnikov in a camp give a particular shrill to the exposition. Museum "Tula Samovars" Addres: Tula region, 8, Mendeleevskaya str., Tula Direction: tram.3, 5, 9, 12, troll. 1, 2, 4, 8, stop "Lenin Avenue" Phones: (0872) 31-2538, 31-2458 -= 11 =- International Exhibition of Caves In South Korean town Samchkhok there is exhibition which is held under the motto "Unknown Mystery - a Cave". With the help of visual special effects information about caves origin, types, inhabitants and about the reasons of their destruction and ecology is presented very lucidly and interesting. All this action is accompanied by dance festivals, parades, shows, performances and fireworks. ______________________________________________________ Materials: send to [email protected] or by fax (7-095)135-3385 Subscription: empty message to [email protected] to unsubscribe to send the same to [email protected] Contacts: E-Mail: [email protected] phone/fax: (7-095)135-3385 http://www.museum.ru Copyright: http://www.rchn.org.ru/copyright.htm ______________________________________________________ (ñ) All rights reserved.1997-2002. Russian Cultural Heritage Network