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Pushkin House (Russian: Пушкинский Дом), established in 1954, is the UK's oldest independent Russian cultural centre, now based in Bloomsbury, London.It was founded by a group of émigré Russian friends, led by Maria Mikhailovna Kullmann (Zernova), with the aim of creating a welcoming meeting-place "for the enjoyment, understanding and promotion of Russian culture in all its ...
Pushkin House as seen across the Malaya Neva and Exchange Bridge.The pediment is crowned with the bronze statues of Neptune, Mercury, and Ceres.. The Pushkin House (Russian: Пушкинский дом, romanized: Pushkinsky Dom), formally the Institute of Russian Literature (Институ́т ру́сской литерату́ры), is a research institute in St. Petersburg.
The Pushkin House Book Prize is an annual book prize, awarded to the best non-fiction writing on Russia in the English language. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize was inaugurated in 2013. The prize amount as of 2020 has been £10,000.
He went on to attend Kiev University, where he studied philology, [11] and the Pushkin House (known at the time as the Institute of Russian Literature). [10] The Pushkin House is where Vodolazkin met his wife, Tatiana Robertovna Rudi. [12] He defended his thesis in 1990, and his examiner Dmitry Likhachov offered him a faculty position. [3]
It consists of settings for high voice and piano of six poems by the Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin (1799–1837), in their original language. It was published as his Op. 76. The cycle is dedicated to his Russian friends Galina Vishnevskaya ("Galya") (soprano) and her husband Mstislav Rostropovich ("Slava") (cellist, pianist and conductor).
A woman in Kentucky surprised her Navy husband with a special military homecoming by gifting him a five-day duck hunting trip in Kansas with his best friends ahead of Christmas.
The House rejected a deal backed by President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday evening, failing by 174-235. The move to temporarily skirt a government shutdown was a variation of a bipartisan bill ...
Grigory Alexandrovich Gukovsky (Russian: Григо́рий Алекса́ндрович Гуко́вский, IPA: [ɡʊˈkofskʲɪj]; 1 May 1902, in Saint Petersburg – 2 April 1950, in Moscow) was a Russian Formalist literary historian and scholar whose work at the Pushkin House led to the rediscovery of 18th-century Russian literature.