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You are cordially invited to the next concert in the ‘Professors Wednesdays’ cycle, but this time, however, the concert will take place not on a Wednesday, but on Tuesday, June 10, 2014!
From June 4-10, 2014, the Arkhangelskoe Estate and Museum is hosting the ‘Baroque Masterpieces’ international festival of early music.
The Museum of the History of Russian Chocolate, which recently opened in the center of Moscow after several years as an exhibition in another museum, is a fascinating journey into the origins of Russia’s obsession with the black stuff. Here you can discover how Russian chocolatiers invented the precursor to the Kinder Surprise and other marketing gimmicks.
The Moscow Spring festival is being held from May 1-11. Twenty-three city fairgrounds, located in each district, feature six periods from Russian history — the Silver Age, the New Economic Policy during the 1920s, Industrialization and the Great Patriotic War, the Thaw, the era of developed socialism, and Perestroika.
This year Moscow residents and visitors alike will enjoy an interesting and varied programme of public holidays.
The XIII Moscow Easter Festival — a peak event in the cultural life of Russia and one of the grandest musical events of the year — will take place from April 20th through May 9th 2014 with the support of the Moscow City Government, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
The first large scale exhibition dedicated to Fyodor Fyodorovskii is a joint venture between the Tretyakov Gallery, the Bolshoi Theatre and the Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum.
The Pasternak House Museum is located in Peredelkino, on the outskirts of Moscow. It is in this house that Boris Pasternak wrote his Nobel Prize-winning novel, Doctor Zhivago , and also where he died. Pasternak is buried at the cemetery in Peredelkino.
Archangelskoye Estate and Museum is hosting an exhibition of French art between now and March 8, 2015. More than 40 paintings from the museum's collections are on display along with works of the decorative and applied arts and rare books of the 17th through 19th centuries.