Special Women's Day holiday issue
Thu, 2002-03-07 15:00 — admin
Russian Carnival
Maslennitsa is the only holiday that has been preserved from time immemorial, when Russia was still a pagan country. It's all about saying goodbye to the cold winter and hello to the arriving spring. Since ancient times, Maslennitsa has been one of the people's favorite holidays.
This year, Maslennitsa will be arranged as a movable feast. Major events will take place from March 11-17 at a number of locations in Moscow. The Russian Exhibition Center, VVTs, will be hosting massive outdoor festivities, folk songs and dances and theatrical shows. "Peter's Maslennitsa Games" will take place at Vorobyovy Gory and will feature ice-hill sliding, a masquerade ball, troika-riding, fistfights, fireworks and much more. On Glutton's Thursday, March 14, at 5 p.m. a gigantic oven will be installed on Vasilyevsky Spusk in the Kremlin, where a gigantic pancake will be cooked. The event will be accompanied by a gala concert with folk and pop stars.
Female Gender Art
The exhibitions "Female Gender Art" and "Woman's View" currently on display in the Tretyakov Art Gallery are truly unique. They represent the first-ever attempt at reconstructing a "panorama" of artwork created by women over a period of more than five centuries - from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to 20th-century avant-garde to modern times. The 18th-century art section features works by famous people who were not professional artists: Catherine the Great, Empress Maria Fyodorovna and Princesses Yelena and Alexandra. Russian avant-garde art is widely represented by works of Varvara Stepanova, Olga Rozanova and Alexandra Ekster. "Female Gender Art" will be on display at the gallery's Krymsky Val premises until March 31 and the "Woman's View" will be running in the gallery's Lavrushinsky Per. premises until October.
Presidents, presidents
A unique exhibition of photographs will open in the President restaurant in the Gorbachev Fund building on March 12. The exhibition is to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the famous Third Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, which ruled to institute the presidency in the Soviet Union. The exhibition, which will run until the end of March, will feature photographs of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and current Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But it won't be the photos, but the photographers, who are destined to become the event's highlight. Their names are published in newspapers every day, but very few know them by sight. Now, for the first time, they will appear in person on March 12 at 4 p.m.: Vladimir Musayelyan (who photographed Leonid Brezhnev), and Alexei Lizunov and Alexander Chumichev (personal photographers of Gorbachev), Dmitry Donskoi and Dmitry Sokolov (personal photographers of Yeltsin). The exhibition is expected to be visited by State Duma and Federation Council deputies, government members and presidential candidates of different periods.
Issue Number:
311
Published:
2002-03-08
This week, LifeStyle presents its special Women's Day holiday issue, full of holiday ideas and recommendations. The punk group Vosmaya Marta - in a fantastic interview by LifeStyle's Natasha Terex , women's movies and CDs and places to go and much more.
Martha Mercer, LifeStyle editor, martham@lstyle.ru.
Russian Carnival
Maslennitsa is the only holiday that has been preserved from time immemorial, when Russia was still a pagan country. It's all about saying goodbye to the cold winter and hello to the arriving spring. Since ancient times, Maslennitsa has been one of the people's favorite holidays.
This year, Maslennitsa will be arranged as a movable feast. Major events will take place from March 11-17 at a number of locations in Moscow. The Russian Exhibition Center, VVTs, will be hosting massive outdoor festivities, folk songs and dances and theatrical shows. "Peter's Maslennitsa Games" will take place at Vorobyovy Gory and will feature ice-hill sliding, a masquerade ball, troika-riding, fistfights, fireworks and much more. On Glutton's Thursday, March 14, at 5 p.m. a gigantic oven will be installed on Vasilyevsky Spusk in the Kremlin, where a gigantic pancake will be cooked. The event will be accompanied by a gala concert with folk and pop stars.
Female Gender Art
The exhibitions "Female Gender Art" and "Woman's View" currently on display in the Tretyakov Art Gallery are truly unique. They represent the first-ever attempt at reconstructing a "panorama" of artwork created by women over a period of more than five centuries - from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to 20th-century avant-garde to modern times. The 18th-century art section features works by famous people who were not professional artists: Catherine the Great, Empress Maria Fyodorovna and Princesses Yelena and Alexandra. Russian avant-garde art is widely represented by works of Varvara Stepanova, Olga Rozanova and Alexandra Ekster. "Female Gender Art" will be on display at the gallery's Krymsky Val premises until March 31 and the "Woman's View" will be running in the gallery's Lavrushinsky Per. premises until October.
Presidents, presidents
A unique exhibition of photographs will open in the President restaurant in the Gorbachev Fund building on March 12. The exhibition is to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the famous Third Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union, which ruled to institute the presidency in the Soviet Union. The exhibition, which will run until the end of March, will feature photographs of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and current Russian President Vladimir Putin.
But it won't be the photos, but the photographers, who are destined to become the event's highlight. Their names are published in newspapers every day, but very few know them by sight. Now, for the first time, they will appear in person on March 12 at 4 p.m.: Vladimir Musayelyan (who photographed Leonid Brezhnev), and Alexei Lizunov and Alexander Chumichev (personal photographers of Gorbachev), Dmitry Donskoi and Dmitry Sokolov (personal photographers of Yeltsin). The exhibition is expected to be visited by State Duma and Federation Council deputies, government members and presidential candidates of different periods.