Moscow Digest. 13&14 December

December 13th&14th 2014

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Moscow Digest CHRISTMAS, NEW YEAR & OLD NEW YEAR The confusion p. 12 HERE STAT’S THE FAIRY TAIL Journey to the Magic Land p. 13

CLASSICAL MUSIC MASTER Concert Denis Matsuev p. 28

OLD MOSCOW FAVOURITES Yury Yeremin p. 20

TOP5 OF THE BEST TEA PLACES IN MOSCOW

Dear Friends, We are so happy to have you with us! Festive seasons are so soon!

Don’t worry about; with the Moscow Digest you will be more that ready for the Festive Seasons in Moscow!

This weekend our main themes are: Festivals & Markets, Expo in Moscow, Kids and Music.

To have a nice and happy time, have a look on the Festival and Markets section, here you will find amazing Christmas fairs, Charity Markets, the awaited Christmas Journey Festival and for the extreme lovers a competition from Red bull.

If you was confused by the Russian “Christmas tree for the New Year Celebration” or “After the holidays we will celebrate the Old New year”, have a look on our “Confusions about Christmas, New Year and Old New Year in Russia”.

For a full enjoy of the weekend find our TOP5 best tea places in Moscow.

Exhibitions this week are Photographic and about history.

Find an exhibition about Soviet time Childhood, Retro Photography of Moscow and an exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron - one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century.

Kids section will be all about mathematics, as in Moscow is now held amazing events for kids in English organized together with the educational centre London Gates Education Group.

Music section will present you the Russian masters of Classical and Rock’n’Roll Music, maybe on of the most difficult choices of that week, as you will need to choose between the two concerts - there are held on the same day.

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Contents: Festivals & Markets in Moscow 06 u International competition Red Bull Crashed Ice 2015 08 u Interview of one of the participants of the 2014th year competition 09 u Festival “Miracles of Science” 10 u Winter hand-made Festival “Other Things” 11 u New Year’s Gift Fair hand-made-ArtFlection 12 u The confusion between Christmases, New Year & Old New Year in Russia 13 u Festival “Journey to the Magic Land” 16 u TOP5 Best Tea places in Moscow Expo in Moscow 18 u The Soviet childhood 19 u Julia Margaret Cameron 20 u Yury Yeremin, Old Moscow –Favourites Kids in Moscow 25 u Entertaining Mathematics in English. Games for one player Music in Moscow 27 u Concert Denis Mazhukov 28 u Concert Denis Matsuev

Cover: Winter Markets (see p.10 & 11 )

Moscow Weather source: gismeteo.ru

December, 13th -1 +2 Cloudy/Snow

December, 14th 0 -1 Cloudy/Snow

Festivals & Markets in Moscow This week we unify the section Festivals and Markets.

We will start this edition with the Red Bull Crashed Ice 2015, the place to be for all the Moscow’s extremes.

Don’t miss the Miracles of Silences Festival with 500 children from the orphanages as guests of the event.

One of the most awaited Festival is a month long festival that will take place around all the city with some funny “Christmas Passports”. For the ones who are in search of amazing gifts find Christmas and Hand made markets.

In the section we will explain the possible confusion with Christmas in Russia.

And to make the weekend cosy we selected for you theTOP5 best Tea places in Moscow.

International competition Red Bull Crashed Ice 2015 Take some of the best and toughest skaters in the world, a sizzling atmosphere, stunning surroundings, tonnes of steel, a huge cooling system and thousands of square metres of frozen water. The result?

Red Bull Crashed Ice! Since the first-ever race back in 2001, Red Bull Crashed Ice has developed into one of the world’s most breath-taking winter sports events.

Riders hurtle down courses up to 600 metres in length in groups of four, shoulder to shoulder, as they fight it out for victory. The whole race is held on a steep downhill track dotted with chicanes, jumps and rollers. Pushing, sliding and sprinting are all on the agenda as the athletes race down the course, but the rules are very simple: first to the bottom wins.

In Red Bull Crashed Ice, skaters descend a steep ice canal filled with bumps, jumps, rollers and obstacles four-at-a-time,jostling for position as they reach speeds of up to 70kph.

With only the top two riders going through to the next round, competition is fierce.

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The event is held in a classic knockout format, and the field of 64 riders starting the main event is whittled down to just four athletes competing in the final.

How do you prepare for such a unique race? First and foremost it is essential to know what you are doing on the ice. However that doesn’t mean that all of the athletes competing in Red Bull Crashed Ice ply their trade in ice-hockey leagues – for example, the sport’s most famous name, Jasper Felder, is a professional bandy player, a game popular in his native Sweden and similar to ice hockey with a round ball and many rules adopted from football.

The sport most similar to ice cross downhill is probably ski cross.

In this discipline, skiers descend a snow course featuring jumps, rollers and banked corners four-at-atime, with the fastest two athletes progressing to

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the next round. While physical contact is (as with ice cross downhill) not officially permitted, the high speeds and twisty courses make for spectacular action and plenty of crashes.

On December 13rd in Moscow will be host the Russian qualifying round of Red Bull Crashed Ice 2015. The venue - the stadium “Meteor”. According to the results of the competition are determined two athletes who will represent Russia at the stages of the World Cup Red Bull Crashed Ice 2015 - the winner and best newcomer.

On December 13th Meteor Stadium 1, Generala Ermolova str. m. Park Pobedy Open time : 12am-6pm Entrance fee : free www.redbullcrashedice. com/ru_INT

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Interview

of one of the participants of the 2014th year competition Info Name: Andrey Lavrov Date of Birth: 20/02/1987 Resides in: St Petersburg, Russia How long have you been competing in ice cross downhill?

The first race I took part in was in the 2011 season, in Munich. The 2014 season will be my fourth year competing.

What first got you interested in the sport?

Initially, I did not even think that I would participate in the qualifying rounds, I just wanted to prove to myself and others that I knew how to skate and had a great desire to test my physical training 08

(at the time of the qualifying rounds in 2011, I played hockey only at an amateur level but tried my best to keep myself in good shape with many different extreme sports). When the same happened at the big track it was love at first sight and now I’m not leaving without a fight for the top places. I cannot imagine doing anything else!

If there is one piece of advice that you could offer new riders, what would it be?

Put all thoughts aside and enjoy the flight and every moment lived on the road, otherwise why do it?

the individual elements of the route, the crowd chanting your name at the race in Moscow, the “moonwalk� at the race in Sweden, the photo finish and a shoulder injury at the events in Holland... but perhaps getting into the final race in Quebec with a broken wrist is the most vivid memory!

Who is your sportsman?

favourite

My father will always remain for me the person for whom I will do anything - I want to make my family proud.

What is your best result or favourite memory at a Red Bull Crashed Ice? At every tour stop, there has always been something memorable:

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Festival “Miracles of Science”

On December 13th Open time: 11am-9pm Entrance fee: free www.чудеса-науки.рф

Central Hall Artplay (Building 2, entrance 2A) 10, N. Syromyatnicheskaya str., m. Tchkalovskaya

On December 13 the festival will be held Artplay “Miracles of Science”. A huge science lab area of 2 000 square meters will turn human conception of things and consciousness. No one can remain indifferent to the unique and spectacular exhibits: - Tesla shows - exclusive electric show of the new generation; -Joint performance of the singer Strekoza with giant robots and Winnerbe Roy Megan; -Holographic projections that react to touch; -Platform with 3D and augmented reality; -Flying and giant robots, the robot snow thrower and Promobot; -Extreme science shows: “krioblastery” flash steam and nitric food; -Unusual workshops for assembly robots; -Games store and transport in the future.

At the festival, “Miracles of Science” can not only see, but also explore the exhibits and take part in experiments.

The main guests of the festival will be 500 children from the orphanages.

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Winter hand-made Festival “Other Things” New Fair, creative workshops and a food court with various goodies will unfold in the territory of the design centre Flacon.

Since 2006, the festival “Other Things” combines hand-made masters under a single brand and allows lovers to purchase beautiful handmade things in the warm and friendly atmosphere. The festival program includes: creative and cooking classes, presentation of books on hand-made, cooking show celebrity chef and, of course, a huge fair things handmade. The event was attended by over 150 Russian designers and craftsmen.

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Event Guests can purchase original accessories. There are comfortable, beautiful, practical and eco-friendly things from children’s collections. An assortment of Christmas fairs will delight dresses for charming ladies copyright decorations, including lampwork beads for bracelets Pandora and Troll, bow tie from DANKO and other stylish attributes.

Decorate home for the holidays to help vintage trifle, in the technique of decoupage, elegant pillows and toys made of felt from the design bureau “0+”. Ceramics will be a “highlight” of any home collection. In addition, the festival will buy Christmas decorations, candles, cute toys textile and felt, decorative lettering for walls and more.

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Cosmetics made from natural ingredients will help to uncover and highlight its beauty. Visitors are offered fragrant soaps and bath salts, lip balms, a variety of means to care for skin.

As part of the event will re-open children’s school “Lighthouse”. Here everyone will learn to make birdhouses and bird feeders.

Will also host a series of master classes on making gel candles, Christmas toys and clay buttons. A sweet tooth can not only enjoy all sorts of goodies at the food court, but they themselves will learn to make jam and paint gingerbread.

The event will be accompanied by live music.

On December 13rd and 14th Open time : 12am – 9pm Entrance fee : free www.drugie-veshi.ru Flacon Design Factory 36, Novodmitrovskaya str. m. Dmitrovskaya

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New Year’s Gift Fair hand-made ArtFlection If you believe that each person is unique and unrepeatable you will like the New Year’s Gift Fair hand-made-ArtFlection.

As always, there are works of masters selected on a competitive basis, also you will find all that is done not just with the soul, but also professionalism and talent.

Postcards, Christmas toys, dolls, jewellery, handbags, accessories, home furnishings, cosmetics, handmade, original clothes and much more. All this is done amazingly talented craftsmen with whom you can also communicate, learn how they do it, and can make the personal order.

If you like things made by hand, the Fair - it’s a great opportunity to look at everything, touch and enjoy the campaign for gifts. If you are doubtful attitude to needlework, believe me, this fair will change your idea.

Venue of the fair - the original cosy coffee house in the historical centre of Moscow.

Come for the impressions, gifts and warm atmosphere.

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On December 13rd Open time : 11am- 8pm Entrance fee : free

Cafe Jeffrey’s Coffee 15, Maroseyka str. m. Kitay Gorod

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The confusion between Christmas, New Year & Old New Year in Russia Many time you will see that in Russia the “Christmas” tree is dressed for the New Year, it look strange, but the key of this question goes far in the Soviet time.

On a period of the Soviet Era in Russia was prohibit the religion, so people start’s to celebrate the New Year as they celebrate Christmas before.

An other point of differences is, that Russia is mostly Orthodox and in Orthodox religion the Christmas is on the 6th of January. The event is the same (the born of the Christ), but the dates are different because of the use if an other calendar, from here come the Old new year, celebrated on the 12th Of January, this day is the New year by the Orthodox calendar and as the Orthodox calendar is older that the usual one, so it’s called the Old New Year.

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Journey to the Magic Land For a whole month Moscow will become a real fairy land - here are circling in the Waltz of the Flowers Nutcracker and Cinderella on the stove in the centre of the city ride Emelja, Twelve months will tell where to find the snowdrops in the New Year, and around the Christmas tree will be led dances Ded Moroz (the Russian Santa Claus, that comes for the New Year Eve).

Grand festive extravaganza in Moscow will last from December 12nd to January 11st - to celebrate the New Year on the 36 venues of the capital earn fabulous town, where guests will be welcomed and entertained the heroes of Russian folk tales, and feel like a child will be able to any adult and children’s Christmas wishes performed by Ded Moroz and Snegurochka.

25 Christmas sites will appear in the centre of Moscow and 11 - in the districts of the capital. At each of the sites will be subject fabulous buildings, ice sculptures, slides, fair, stalls with refreshments and souvenirs and houses with entertainment. By tradition, the festival participants

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will be given a “Christmas passport”: to get the title of honorary citizen of fairyland, parents with children will need to visit the festival grounds and receive 25 “fabulous” stamps in their passports.

The centre of Moscow - Red Square will be the place to begin an amazing journey into the world of fairy tales.

Here is the official reception of Ded Moroz and Snegurochka, where children will be able to communicate with wizards, tell how they spent their 2014 and make a memorable photo frame, make a gift under the “Christmas” tree in New Year’s Eve and solemnly get Christmas fairyland passport.

Continue holiday travel dances, snow fun and a cup of tea by the fire will be on St. Nicholas Street, where the festival participants met his brother-months, as well as other heroes of fairy tales and master dancing and singing, which will share the secrets of Christmas performances.

Christmas forest, meadow Candy, Lemonade river and lake almond milk - puppet kingdom appears on Pushkin Square. Here guests of the festival will be met Marie and the Nutcracker. The war with the Mouse King is long over, but because the main characters of the Christmas tale with a happy reverberate with everyone in the free skating rink, as well

as go on a magical train to “mouse culinary school” where children and adults could participate in delicious master classes.

From northern fairy tale - a fairy tale east. On Arbat unfold real bazaar with silks and spicy delicacies, tents for dance and music performances and creative lessons in embroidery, knitting east, decorative arts and focus. Their possessions participants of the festival will show Aladdin and the most active he was even allowed to ride on their camels.

After hot oriental adventures of northern romance can go to the Exhibition Centre, which will open more cities Tales - with penguins and reindeer, snowmen and jolly hockey players. There will be opened Europe’s largest skating rink, covers an area of 20 thousand sq.m .: it will be divided into several thematic areas, where guests will be entertained favourite cartoon characters and fairy tales.

On other grounds guests will be glad to Frost, Bear Umka, Snow Queen with Kai and Gerda, Baba Yaga and Santa gnomes and other favourite characters of Russian Fairy tail stories.

New Year - a holiday wish-fulfilment, because the journey would be fabulous for both children and adults! www.festmoscow.ru/adventure-en

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TOP5 Best Tea places in Moscow

Chainaya Vysota(Чайная высота) 27, Pokrovka str., bld.1, m.

Chistie Prudy Gorky Park, 9, Krymsky Val str., m. Oktyabrskaya www.cha108.ru

Since a long time ago, tea took his place in the heart of many peoples. In different countries tea is enjoyed by different ways, and in Moscow, you can find all the possible types of tea and ways of tea drinking.

French tea house «Le Voyage du The» 22/15, Malaya Bronnaya str., 1st floor, m. Mayakovskaya www.maisonduthe.ru

In winter, after a long day or walking in the street there is nothing better than a good cup of hot tea, but do not get round refreshing, energizing iced tea.

In addition, we have something new for you in our super TOP5 of best tea places in Moscow welcome the new trend in Moscow, “Bubble Tea”.

The drink became famous because of its unusual structure - it consists of freshly brewed tea / milk, natural syrup and toppings. Bubble Tea was invented on the island of Taiwan.

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Club of Tea culture Zhelezny Feniks(Железный Феникс) 19, Rozhdestvenskiy Boulevard, m. Trubnaya www.clubcha.ru Bubbleology (Bubble Tea) Afimall city Mall 2, Presnenskaya Quay, 5th floor, m. Vystavochnaya Metropolis Mall 16, Leningradske Shosse, bld.4, 3rd floor m. Voikovskaya Kapitoly Leningradsky Mall 1B (Б), Pravoberezhnaya Quay, 2nd floo, m. Preobrazhenskaya Rio Leninsky Mall 109, Leninsky Prospekt str.

5th floor, m. Yugo Zapadnaya

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Kaluzhsky Mall 61a, Profsouznaya str.

2nd floor, m.Kaluzhskaya Europeysky Mall 2, Kievskogo Vokzala Square,1st&4th foors, m. Kievskaya Erevan Plaza Mall 13, B. Tulskaya str. m. tulskaya Mega Belaya Datcha Mall Moscow Region, 14th km MKAD, Kotelniki city, 51, Pokrovsky Proezd www.bubbleology.ru Tea Funny (Bubble Tea) 40 places in Moscow Hermitage Garden, 3, Karetny Ryad str. , m. Pushkinskaya Izvestia hall, 3, Pushkinskaya Square, m. Pushkinskaya Moscow Zoo, 1, B. Gruzinskaya str., m. Barrikadnaya Museon Park, (only on weekends), 10, Krymsky Val str., m. Oktyabrskaya, m. Park Kultury Zvezdochka Mall, 1, Taganskaya str., bld.1, m. Taganskaya www.bubbletea.ru

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Expo in Moscow This weekend find an historic exhibition about Soviet time childhood, as good possibility to understand how were living Russian children in Soviet times.

And two amazing exhibitions in MAMM, one that will end this weekend about Old Moscow and the exhibition of Julia Margaret Cameron - one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century.

The Soviet childhood Toys, books, movies cartoons, clothing household items - all shape the world of child in the 60-80s.

and and that the

Visitors can browse the Soviet Primer, textbooks and books of fairy tales, to see such iconic for its era films like “The Adventures of Electronics” and “Welcome, or No Trespassing.”

Thematic sections devoted to the program “Good night, kids!”, The tradition of celebrating the New Year and the legendary Moscow department store “Children’s World.” Also in the exhibition includes documentary photographs that show the daily life of kindergartens, the Palace of Pioneers, children’s theatres and cinemas.

Until March 15th Museum of Moscow 2, Zubovskiy Boulevard m. Park Kultury

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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 1879)

experimental compositions, producing prints, and promoting and distributing her works as widely as possible. In addition to creating evocative portraits both of male and female subjects, Cameron staged tableaux and posed her sitters, often friends, family and servants — in simulation of allegorical paintings.

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) was one of the most important photographers of the nineteenth century. Her photographic career began at the age of 48 when she received a camera as a gift from her eldest daughter. She quickly and energetically devoted herself to the art of photography, creating ambitious and

A sensitive and pioneering portraitist, Cameron was criticised in her lifetime for her innovative and unconventional techniques. She wrote of her method of large-scale, out-of-focus portraiture, “when...coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to

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the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon”.

Cameron donated and sold her work to the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) and corresponded frequently with Sir Henry Cole, the founding director. Her photographs were exhibited at the Museum in November 1865, the only occasion during her life that her work was shown in a museum.

MAMM 16 Ostojenka str., m. Kropotkinskaya, m. Park Kultury www. mamm-mdf.ru/en

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Yury Yeremin, Old Moscow – Favorites (Last Days)

MAMM presents a retrospective of Yuri Eremin, one of the celebrated Pictorialist photographers, as part of “Classics of Russian Photography” and “The History of Russia in Photography”, programmes the museum has pursued since 1997. The Russian school of Pictorialist photography takes a special place in the history of world photo art, and the Pictorialists’ work is splendidly attuned to the context of art worldwide. Yuri Eremin, Alexander Grinberg, Nikolai Andreyev and Nikolai Svishchov-Paola represented Russia at major international photography exhibitions and salons in Europe, the USA and Japan, frequently winning the most prestigious awards.

After first appearing on the international photography scene in the late 19th century, Pictorialism had largely exhausted its aesthetic potential by the mid-1920s.

Post-war Europe turned to other genres and art movements, but it enjoyed a renaissance in the USSR for several years.

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The Pictorialists strove to equate photography to painting, mainly using a soft-focus lens and specific, very sophisticated printing techniques. Pictorialist photography challenged the documentary image. In the new Soviet state Pictorialist photographers were in no hurry to adopt Soviet slogans or enthuse over revolutionary achievements. Their subject matter was mostly confined to landscapes, nudes and genre scenes.

Soviet critics, like the foreign press, regarded them primarily as the aesthetic opposition to militant Soviet ideology.

Yuri Eremin was born in 1881.

He travelled extensively in Europe, studying the work of great Italian and French painters, and this hugely influenced his worldview and aesthetic principles. Eremin was always keen to continue his self-education, too: in Paris he attended drawing classes at the Académie Rodolphe Julian, took a philosophy course at the Sorbonne and studied photography ‒ one of his first landscapes in the Pictorialist manner earned the gold medal at an international photography exhibition in Nice.

In Moscow after the war Eremin opened the Secession Photographic Studio, which functioned from 1918 to 1922; attended the VKhUTEMAS Higher Art and Technical Studios; began photographing and sketching

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the historical and cultural monuments of Russia; started work for the Press-Cliché Agency (forerunner of the TASS photojournalism agency) and Exportizdat; became editorial board member of the magazine Fotograf; headed the MUR (Moscow Criminal Investigation Department) photo laboratory; and taught at VKhUTEIN (Higher Art and Technical Institute), the Polygraphic Institute and MARKhI (Moscow Architectural Institute), etc.

In the late 20s Eremin actively exhibited his work (in 1928 alone he took part in seven international shows in Europe and the USA) and no less actively defended Pictorialist ideas at public photography debates where at the time discussion focused on aesthetics. Alexander Rodchenko, who presided over a galaxy of young Modernists and Constructivists, wrote in the magazine Novy LEF in 1928: “It is not so much painting we are struggling with (it is dying anyway), but rather with photography “à la painting”...

Curiously, in the late 1930s Rodchenko, who had long opposed the aesthetics of Pictorialism, became weary of the non-stop revolutionary transformations that inspired his early work and created splendid photo series on ballet, theatre and the circus in the Pictorialist manner.

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In the mid-1930s aesthetics yielded to ideology. Instead of photographic debates on the advantages of different techniques for printing images or the opportunities offered by different optical devices, discussion turned to “political short-sightedness” and the hunt began for enemies of the new world order.

Socialist Realism was declared to be the only admissible means for representing reality.

For a while the Pictorialist photographers continued working and participating in important exhibitions such as “Masters of Soviet Photography” (1935), but they attracted wholly negative press reviews. The magazine Soviet Photo accused them outright of “a predilection for remnants of the pre-Revolutionary culture of noble manor houses and the architecture of old Moscow” and “depicting scenes of rural life during the period of Socialist reorganisation of the countryside that are useful to no one”, declaring that “the working class has no need of nudes”.

During the debate “On Formalism and Naturalism in Art” in 1936 Pictorialist photography was branded “bourgeois” and “ill-timed” “Turgenev-ism” whose “decadent frame of mind prevented” the working class from creating the new art.

faithful to the end to the stylistics of Pictorialism, continuing to defend not only himself and his aesthetic views, his picture of the world, but also the art of the Modernists, engaging as far as possible in polemics with the Socialist Realists.

After the aesthetics of Socialist Realism was transformed into an accessory of the ideological machine, the opportunity for debate became simply impossible and the moral persecution of artists led to physical repressions. Alexander Grinberg was sent to Stalin’s labour camps under the ludicrous pretext of “dissemination of pornography” and Vasily Ulitin was exiled from the capital. Nearly all the Pictorialist photographers were deprived of the right to practise their profession.

During the Second World War Yuri Eremin worked closely with GUOP (Chief Administration for the Protection of Monuments). In December 1944 he sold them more than 2500 negatives. In 1947 Eremin became a photojournalist for TASS, the official Soviet news agency. In 1948 Yuri Eremin died suddenly from a heart attack.

Until December 14th MAMM 16 Ostojenka str., m. Kropotkinskaya, m. Park Kultury www. mamm-mdf.ru/en

Nikolai Petrov headed a legal expertise service, Leonid Shokin became a newspaper photojournalist and Nikolai Svishchov-Paola went to work in the House of Pioneers. Yuri Eremin locked himself in the bathroom of a communal apartment and secretly printed Pictorialist prints in miniature format: this was his escape from Socialist reality, an attempt at “quiet resistance” to the new laws governing art. Any one of the images Eremin printed would have been sufficient to condemn him.

Yuri Eremin was one of the few who stayed

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Kids in Moscow We created this week the Kids section, to talk about an amazing project about Mathematics.

There your child will speak English and learn amazing things about mathematics.

Entertaining Mathematics in English.

Games for one player Meeting on December 13rd, “Games for one player” will be devoted to various mathematical games, which will allow not only to speak in English, but also will demonstrate the solution of mathematical problems.

A series of open sessions “Entertaining mathematics in English”, organized together with the educational centre of London Gates Education Group, - is the ability to use the English language as an active instrument of knowledge, to learn the language with ease and fun, and look at the math in a new way.

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On a new class children have an opportunity to solve the following puzzle: Tower of Hanoi - one of the most popular tasks of the XIX century. Rules of the game: Given three rod, one of which is strung eight rings, the rings vary in size and are: smaller ring for more. The aim is to bring the pyramid of eight rings in the least number of moves to the other pin. At a time are allowed to carry only one ring, and it can not put a larger ring on top of a smaller one.

Challenges for the ferry “Wolf, cabbage and the goat”. The farmer bought at the market goat, cabbage and a wolf. On the way home I had to cross the river. The peasant was a small boat, which besides him could only fit one of his purchases.

How to smuggle him across the river all the goods, if you can not leave the goat alone with the cabbage and the wolf alone with a goat?

Tasks for cutting - one of the few hobbies of many scientists. Simple tasks on the cutting were found by the ancient Greeks, the Chinese, however, the first treatise on this subject written by Abul-Vafa, the Persian astronomer of the tenth century. In the future, the tasks started looking geometers, trying to cut the pieces on the largest number of parts.

The founder of this trend was the geometry of the Henry E. Dudeney.

Now meet the challenges of cutting involved many, primarily because there is no universal method of solving, and everyone can find a new method to be smart, intuitive and creative thinking.

On December 13rd Start: 3pm Entrance fee: free Cultural centre ZIL 4, Vostochnaya str., bld.1 m. Avtozavodskaya www. zilcc.ru

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Music in Moscow “Where words fail, music speaks.”

- Hans Christian Andersen This weekend the music section is exceptional; welcome the best Russian masters of Classical music and Rock’n’Roll.

Concert Denis Mazhukov About Denis Mazhukov speak as an unprecedented virtuoso of rock ‘n’ roll game.

Engineering excellence, quality sound, tremendous temperament, impeccable sense of style - the distinctive properties of the artist.

Denis Mazhukov participated in concerts in Moscow the king of rock ‘n’ roll Jerry Lee Lewis and outstanding guitarist and author of half of the classic rock ‘n’ roll of Chuck Berry. Jerry Lee Lewis, seeing Mazhukov game, said: “You play the same as I was young.”

An extensive program of Denis Mazhukov includes both famous hits of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, and lesser-known works and different in rhythm and mood.

Explosive performance Denis Mazhukov able to create a good mood and a real drive of life!

On December 13rd Start 8pm Tickets : 900 – 2500 RUB Jazz club Akademichesky 1, Donskaya str. m. Oktyabrskaya www.akademrest.ru

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Concert Denis Matsuev Matsuev is a charismatic classical musician that not only in Russia around all over the world could not be found. And this statement is not an exaggeration ! If you do not know who is Denis Matsuev (although today this assumption is fantastic), then looking at this high Buoyant with open eyes, you would think that in front of you, anyone - athlete, Action Hero and lover “a guy in the board “but not a classical pianist. What is the secret of visual deception? Maybe in the Baikal is the vast range of interests of the Irkutsk nugget - from love to jazz up passion for soccer and hockey? Most Likely.

The meteoric rise of his creative career Denis Matsuev began after his triumph at the XI International Competition of the name of Tchaikovsky in Moscow (1998).

Today, his performances are planned for the next few years with the same success and pass on the most prestigious stages in the world accompanied by the best orchestras under distinguished conductors. It is important to place in their tour schedule Matsuyev assigns performances in Russia.

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The traditional question of journalists about what the public artist prefer Matsui answers: “The best, but also the most difficult audience - Russian. We is not something that a professional - a mere mortal to win easy. But if conquer - here it is a mysterious Russian soul - it can take you as you do not even deserve. It was a concert in Moscow, in the Great Hall of the Conservatory - the biggest test of the season, not in New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall. This mysticism, which can not be explained in words. If you have passed the Russian public, then nothing scary - hardening of a lifetime”.

On December 13rd Start : 6pm Tickets : 5 000- 30 000RUB Barvikha Concert Hall 114, Rublevo-Uspenskoe Shosse, m. Molodezhnaya

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