On This Day
Notable events on this day in Russian history
1800: Alexander Suvorov, general, died
1868: Nikholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, born
1868: Tsar Nicholas II, eldest son of Tsar Alexander III, was born.
1896: Stampede at Nicholas II's coronation celebration
1935: The Maxim Gorky, a massive, 206-foot wingspan behemoth of an airplane, crashes after a tragic mid-air collision.
1944: Crimean Tatars deported to Siberia.
1944: In the Soviet Union, the expulsion began of more than 200,000 Tatars from the Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with the Germans.
1977: The United States, Soviet Union and 29 other nations signed a U.N. pact banning artificial use of the weather as a weapon of war, pledging never to attack each other by triggering storms, earthquakes or tidal waves.
Featured Articles
- January 3, 2012
- Lyubov Orlova
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- By Lada Bakal
Lyubov Petrova Orlova was born January 29, 1902 and became the first Soviet movie star and sex symbol. She was also Stalin’s favorite film actress and a highly gifted singer. This is an extended biography of the artist (an abridged version ran in the JanFeb 2012 issue of Russian Life).
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- May 5, 2009
- Must See Films, Must Read Fiction
- By Paul E. Richardson
In our 100th issue, we have a long feature, "100 Things Everyone Should Know About Russia," with loads of factoids, notes, lists and essays. We figured our list of the "must read" fiction and "must see" movies would be a bit contentious (and certainly foreshortened). So we are posting the lists here for reader comment and supplementation...
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- July 1, 2011
- Chtenia 15 and Summer Movies
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- By Paul E. Richardson
In her introduction to the next issue of Chtenia (coming in July to a mailbox near you!), Tamara Edelman writes several Russian films set in summer, including a Mosfilm classic I Step through Moscow. "Summer," she writes, "is a time for growing up, a time for educating the senses, for better understanding one's self. It is a time for transformation."
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- July 15, 2010
- Notable New Film: The Concert
- By Paul E. Richardson
A new movie opens July 30 starring Melanie Laurent and Alexei Guskov and it sounds like a fun summer diversion for Russophiles. We're waiting for our review copy to deliver a judgement, but here is a synopsis...
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- March 30, 2011
- On PBS next week: Desert of Forbidden Art
- By Paul E. Richardson
- Igor Savitsky single-handedly saved over 40,000 works of avant-garde Soviet art by hiding them in plain sight. Well, in plain sight in a completely out of the way museum in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan). Read More
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Coming Events
from our online database
In the Search of an Absolute: Art of Valery Yurlov (New Brunswick, NJ), From December 03, 2011 to
June 03, 2012.
From Thaw to Meltdown: Soviet Painting of the 1950s-1980s (Minneapolis, MN), From February 25, 2012 to
September 15, 2012.
Sculptures by Naum Mogilevsky (Minneapolis, MN), From March 03, 2012 to
July 15, 2012.
Ted Vasin: Poison Bliss (Miami, FL), From April 14, 2012 to
June 06, 2012.
New Russian Film: ELENA (New York, NY), From May 16, 2012 to
May 29, 2012.
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