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2 10, 2023

Conference-concert “I love you, creation of Peter’s”

2023-10-26T18:21:59+02:00October 2nd, 2023|Categories: Meet Russia, Peter The Great, Russian House News|Tags: , , |

On 28.09 the conference-concert “I love you, creation of Pierre” dedicated to the 320th anniversary of Saint Petersburg took place at the Russian House in Brussels. Maestro Andrei Chevtchouk, conductor and choir director, who has worked for over twenty years in France, Belgium, Germany and other European countries, as well as in Russia as a conductor of orchestras and theater and festival choirs, artistic director of festivals and choirs, presented to the public the beautiful “capital of the North”, which since its creation attracted many architects who contributed to its beauty. Particular attention was paid to the musical history of [...]

25 08, 2023

Screening of the Multimedia Film “Alexander III: The Bronze Wanderer”

2023-10-26T20:04:15+02:00August 25th, 2023|Categories: Cinema Club, History & Memory, Meet Russia, Russian House News|

As part of the All-Russian event "Night of Cinema – 2023," in the virtual branch of the Russian Museum operating within the premises of the V.G. Belinsky Central District Library, a screening of the multimedia film "Alexander III: The Bronze Wanderer" will take place. Created in 1909 by the sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy, the monument to Alexander III was installed near the Nicholas Railway Station in St. Petersburg. After the 1917 revolution, a complex and dramatically intertwined "journey" of the monument began, closely linked to the events of national history. In 1939, the monument became part of the collection of the [...]

29 06, 2023

The multimedia project “Music of Heroes” was presented in Belgium

2023-06-30T11:52:36+02:00June 29th, 2023|Categories: Exhibitions, History & Memory, Russian House News|Tags: , , , |

To the 82nd commemoretion of the start of the Great Patriotic War On June 29, 2023, the presentation of the multimedia project of the Russian National Museum of Music "Music of Heroes" took place on the virtual site of the Russian House in Brussels. The project presented by Mikhail Bryzgalov, Director General of the Russian National Museum of Music, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. "Music of Heroes" is a synthesis of the museum and theater, music and literature, photography and cinema. The music of heroes is the music of those who worked in the rear, fought on the [...]

15 06, 2023

Online tour “Collection of the Russian Museum. Art from the 12th to mid-19th centuries”

2023-10-26T20:06:06+02:00June 15th, 2023|Categories: Exhibitions, Meet Russia, Our Compatriots, Russian House News|Tags: , |

On 15 June 2023, the Russian Museum held a virtual tour round the permanent exposition of the museum in the Mikhailovsky Palace. Valentina Gorlova, Head of the Excursion and Lecture Department, told the viewers from Belgium, France, Russia and other countries about the masterpieces of Russian Art of the 12th to the mid -19 th centuries. During the virtual tour the audience explored the rooms of the Grand Duke's Mikhailovsky Palace that had been rebuilt in the late 19th century for the purposes of the art museum. The viewers started exploring Russian art from the rooms of Old Russian Art [...]

6 06, 2023

Events dedicated to Sergei Rachmaninoff took place in Brussels

2023-10-26T20:07:14+02:00June 6th, 2023|Categories: Exhibitions, Our Compatriots, Sergei Rachmaninoff|Tags: , |

On June 5th and 6th, in the Russian House in Brussels there were the events dedicated to the great Russian composer Sergey Rachmaninov, organized jointly with the Russian National Museum of Music (Moscow) with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia. A special guest Mikhail Bryzgalov, Director General of the Russian National Museum of Music, President of the Association of Music Museums and Collectors, honored art worker of the Russian Federation, laureate of the RF Government Prize in Culture, member of RF UNESCO Commission, member of the Public Council Commission for Cultural Cooperation under Rossotrudnichestvo, took part in [...]

6 06, 2023

The Russian Language Day and the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff were celebrated on Alexander Pushkin’s birthday at the Russian House in Brussels

2023-10-26T20:08:45+02:00June 6th, 2023|Categories: Our Compatriots, Russian House News, Russian language, Sergei Rachmaninoff|Tags: , |

A festive concert of vocal music "Pushkin and Rachmaninov. Poetry and Music" was held at the Russian House in Brussels on June 6, where the songs of Sergei Rachmaninoff were performed. Each of the composer's works in this genre is remarkable for its amazing sincerity. Rachmaninoff often said that he loved poetry and always put it second only to music. The concert on the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff's birth drew a full house. The favorite and native melodies were performed by Elena Fedorova (soprano), Inna van Mechelen (piano) and Salome Tsankashvili (piano). Romances to the verses of Russian poets A. [...]

25 05, 2023

Concert “Song and dance in Golden Russia” by the Russian ensemble ” Otrada ” (Antwerp)

2023-10-26T20:09:36+02:00May 25th, 2023|Categories: Meet Russia, Our Compatriots, Russian House News, Russian language|Tags: |

On May 25, 2023, the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture was celebrated at the Russian House in Brussels with the Russian Song Ensemble " Otrada " from Antwerp. The Day of Slavic Literature and Culture is a wonderful occasion to join the origins of Slavic traditions, to Russian folk holidays and rituals, folk art and original folk art, to get acquainted with the culture of the Russian people. The program of the evening included round dances, folk games, as well as songs with centuries-old history - from antiquity to the present day. Amazing outfits in Russian style and colorful [...]

11 05, 2023

Musical and poetic evening “Living memory of the past”

2023-05-11T12:00:41+02:00May 11th, 2023|Categories: History & Memory, Russian House News|Tags: , , |

  On May 9, our country celebrated the Great Holiday, Victory Day over Nazi Germany.   On May 10, 2023, a gala evening "Living Memory of Past Years" was held at the Russian House in Brussels, dedicated to the Day of Victory in World War II in Europe. We dedicated this Literary and Musical Evening to the memory of Soviet people who fell on the battlefields, were burned in the crematoria of concentration camps, tortured to death in the dungeons of the Gestapo, died under bombing, and those who lived to see the holy holiday - Victory Day.   Opera [...]

7 04, 2023

“Crossroads of Musical Destinies – Sergei Rachmaninoff and Fedor Chaliapin”

2023-04-14T12:11:27+02:00April 7th, 2023|Categories: Sergei Rachmaninoff|Tags: , |

On April 7, 2023, a concert-musical conversation was held at the Russian House in Brussels on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the great composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and the famous bass Fyodor Chaliapin. The large audience that came to the Brussels-Europe Russian House this evening listened with enthusiasm to Maestro Andrei Chevtchouk's story about the destiny and work of the great composer and the great artist, about their friendship, which began with a meeting at Savva Mamontov's Private Russian Opera. A lifelong friendship, with common work, with warm encounters both in Russia and in Switzerland, in France, in America, [...]

1 04, 2023

Concert “On Rachmaninoff’s Birthday” was a great success

2023-04-05T14:55:19+02:00April 1st, 2023|Categories: Russian House News, Sergei Rachmaninoff|Tags: , |

On April 1, 2023, the concert hall of the Russian House in Brussels hosted a concert performed by Timur Sergeeni, professor of special piano at LUCA School of arts, Leuven, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninov, a Russian composer, pianist, conductor, who became a symbol of Russian music all over the world. Rachmaninoff's music is like a mirror of the Russian soul. The composer, like no one else, felt the pulse of time, reflecting it in the rhythms of his works. Timur Sergieni's acting was notable for its careful finishing of details, philosophical depth [...]

31 03, 2023

Presentation of the book by Alexander Korsak “The Third Salvo”

2024-01-15T22:14:26+01:00March 31st, 2023|Categories: Library, Our Compatriots, Russian House News, With Russian Roots|Tags: , |

On March 31, 2023, the presentation of the book “The Third Salvo” by Alexander Korsak took place at the Russian House in Brussels, which tells the fate of his parents, the first wave of emigrants, the years they lived through during the German occupation.

17 03, 2023

Excursion-finishing of the exhibition “Russia and the West. 500 years” with Doctor of History Vladimir Ronin

2023-03-24T15:10:17+01:00March 17th, 2023|Categories: Exhibitions, History & Memory, Russian House News|Tags: |

On March 17, the exhibition "In Fraternitate et Caritate" finished its work at the Russian House in Brussels. Russia and the West 500 years ago”, dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Holy Roman Empire. A tour of the exhibition was conducted by Vladimir Ronin, Doctor of History, Master of Slavic Studies, currently teaching at the KU Leuven (Antwerp campus). Author of numerous publications – works on the history of Central Europe in the Middle Ages, as well as on Russian-Belgian relations over the past two centuries. Since 1522, the Grand Prince [...]

3 03, 2023

Literary evening “Simenon and Russia” was held at the Russian House in Brussels

2024-01-15T22:19:49+01:00March 3rd, 2023|Categories: Library, Our Compatriots, Russian House News, With Russian Roots|Tags: , |

On March 3, the literary evening "Simenon and Russia" was held at the Russian House in Brussels, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of the great writer. Jean-Louis Etienne, a native of the Belgian Liege, like Simenon, a literary critic with 30 years of experience, spoke about the creative path of the famous master of detectives. And also about the phenomenal and constant success of his work in Russia. In the exhibition hall you can see an exhibition dedicated to the work of Georges Simenon, which is open to the public until the end of March. [...]

17 02, 2023

Literary Evening: Dominique Fernandez and his “Soviet Time Novel, Undiscovered Continent”.

2024-01-15T22:25:21+01:00February 17th, 2023|Categories: Library, Our Compatriots, Russian House News, With Russian Roots|Tags: , , |

L'AUTEUR : Le 17 février 2023, une Soirée littéraire s'est tenue à la Maison russe à Bruxelles avec la participation de Dominique Fernandez, membre de l'Académie française, auteur de nombreux livres d’une oeuvre considérable par sa qualité et sa prolixité (une centaine de livres parus) qui lui a valu notamment le prix Médicis en 1974 pour Porporino ou les mystères de Naples, le prix Goncourt en 1982 pour Dans la main de l’Ange, le prix Charles-Oumont de la Fondation de France en 1986 pour L’Amour, le prix Prince Pierre de Monaco pour l’ensemble de son oeuvre en 1986, le prix [...]

6 02, 2023

The anniversary of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad was celebrated in Belgium

2023-03-01T15:36:09+01:00February 6th, 2023|Categories: History & Memory, Russian House News|Tags: , , , |

The Russian House in Brussels and the People's Artist of Russia SVETLANA KRYUCHKOVA prepared for an important date the literary and musical composition "Leningraders, my children!" Dedicated to the courage and heroism of Leningraders during the days of the fascist blockade of 1941-1944. On January 27, 1944 as the result of Leningrad-Novgorod strategy offensive operation were defeated the Nazi armies near Leningrad and the 900 days blockade of the city was completely reversed. The blockade of Leningrad lasted from September 8, 1941 to January 27, 1944. During this period 107 000 aerial bombs were dropped at the northern [...]

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