The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society is an independent charity bringing together people who share an interest in the Russian language and culture
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Join Ksenia Golubovich for an online talk on Andrei #Tarkovsky’s #Mirror (1974), a #film-essay of memory, fragments, family voices, #Soviet scenes, and art-historical echoes.
Thursday, 28 May, 18:30–20:00 BST
Online via Zoom
shorturl.at/NWQQM
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Olha Chervinska’s talk explores Dialogue About/For #Dostoevsky, co-authored with Roman Dzyk, and the creative idea behind this long-term scholarly project.
Tuesday, 12 May, 19:00–20:00 BST
In-person: Bowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge
shorturl.at/GkKZL
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This Wednesday, 29 April, 18:30 BST: join Dr Natalia Murray for Pure Painting: Wassily #Kandinsky and the Birth of #Abstraction.
Explore colour, spirituality, and art.
Old Library, #PembrokeCollege & Zoom. Followed by wine reception.
shorturl.at/sdniS
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🎹 We warmly invite you to a recital by prize-winning pianist Vitaly Pisarenko
A concert in support of CamRuSS charitable activities.
📅 Thu 26 March, 19:00–21:00
📍 The Chapel, Churchill College, Cambridge
🎟 £18 / £12 (members & concessions)
🔗 Book: shorturl.at/6PCqI
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🎹 Tchaikovsky & Chopin — Poets of the Piano
A Piano Recital by Alexander Karpeyev
📅 Thu 26 Feb, 19:00–20:30 (GMT)
📍 Recital Room, Music Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
🎟 £18 / £12 (CamRuSS members & concessions)
🔗 Book: shorturl.at/p3wOV
#Cambridge #ClassicalMusic
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🔬 #Nobeliate Stories: How the #Discoveries of 2025 and Past Years Were Made — and Why They Matter
🎙️ Talk by Ilya #Kolmanovsky, #science journalist & podcaster
📅 Mon 13 Oct, 18:00 (BST)
📍Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Cambridge Zoom
🎟️ shorturl.at/EreGd
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👑 Secrets, Succession & Seduction: Catherine the Great and the British Ambassador with Sir Tony Brenton, OBE.
🗓 Fri 24 Oct, 18:30–20:00 (BST)
📍 Trinity Hall, Cambridge & Zoom
Tickets, shorturl.at/7j3Nr
Details, shorturl.at/XG4AA
#CatherineTheGreat #HistoryTalk
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📚 You’re warmly invited to a talk by Robert Chandler, renowned translator of his works – Vasily Grossman After Life and Fate – exploring his late, powerful writings.
Tickets, shorturl.at/R51M2
Details, shorturl.at/FDq0T
#VasilyGrossman #RobertChandleLiterature
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In Search of True Beauty and Genuine #knowledge : The Life and Work of Nicholas #Roerich, talk by Dr Natalia Budanova (in Russian) – Mon, 28 April at 6:30 pm (BST) – in-person and on Zoom
More details and booking, shorturl.at/kY56G
ALT Red Horses by Nicholas Roerich, 1925
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#Piano #Recital with Vitaly #Pisarenko - this Saturday, #worldpianoday 29 March at 7pm
Venue: Old Divinity School Main Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, Cambridge
This fundraising concert will support ESOL classes for Ukrainians.
Tickets: shorturl.at/VGbiR
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Happening #today! Special #Literary Evening with Julia #Nemirovskaya in Cambridge!
Friday, 21 February, 19:00 (GMT)
In-person: Main Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall College, Cambridge CB2 1TJ
& Online via Zoom
Please register, shorturl.at/MltOz
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Join us for an Evening of Spring #Romance performed by mezzo-soprano Jessica Lawrence-Hares and pianist Olga Elbourn!
📅 8 March | 19:00–21:00 (GMT)
📍 The Chapel at Churchill College, Cambridge
Booking, shorturl.at/k0JbR
#ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #CambridgeEvents
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Join us for a presentation of #Dislocation: The Second Volume of #AntiWar #Poetry Anthology
📅 Tuesday, 25 February 2025 | 19:00-21:00 (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
💳 Tickets: FREE
Book via AllEvents, shorturl.at/NdcUm
#WarAndLiterature #LiteraryEvent #Translation
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Join us for #Poetry #event:
A Magic Mirror: An Evening of Poetry with Julia #Nemirovskaya, a poet and literary scholar
📅 Friday, 21 February 2025 | 19:00-21:00
📍 in-person: Main Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall, #Cambridge & online: via #Zoom
Booking, shorturl.at/MltOz
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📖 #Book #Launch : Know You Her Secret ✨
Join us Tue 4 Feb, 18:30 (GMT) for a discussion with Dr Merrilyn Thomas & Prof Anthony Cross.
📷 In person & Zoom
A true story of an English governess caught in the #RussianRevolution.
Don’t miss this event!
🔗shorturl.at/orvL9
ALT Dr Merrilyn Thomas
ALT Sofka with Lucy, picture in The Red Princess (1913)
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Less than a week to go until our next event: Irina Kirillova MBE in conversation with Rachel Polonsky. We can't wait to hear about the role Russia has played in Irina's life! Tickets available here: bit.ly/4bNpgSs
#russia #cambridge #LiteraturePosts #translation
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As today marks VE day, here is a pertinent message for us recorded by Capt Rolfe Monteith in 2020. We send our heartfelt greetings and thanks to all veterans. Our thoughts are also with all those impacted by current conflicts in Ukraine and worldwide. youtu.be/j4ylDv2H7lc?si=IZXm…
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Only a fortnight to go until our next event: "Shostakovich's Symphony No.5", an illustrated talk with @frolovawalker.
Tickets available here: bit.ly/3UhfeBR
Further details: bit.ly/3Uiu3nL
Fri 10 May, 18:00-19:30
Not to be missed by any classical music fans!
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Geographies of Russia Lecture 3. Arctic cities of Russia: a feat, a mistake, a conditionality? by Dr Nadezhda Zamyatina
Friday 19 May, 18:30 - 20:30 Online via Zoom
allevents.in/online/arctic-c…
ALT Dikson, an urban-type settlement, Taymyr peninsula, Russian Arctic
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This and next week are celebrations or Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Easter. It's a wonderful time of year, with warmer weather, Easter flowers, and special traditions with some families. We wish you every good thing at Easter and always
#easter #happyeaster #spring
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