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A red sarafan, a twig of a birch tree, and a wave of a turquoise kerchief. All of these are the elements of maiden’s round dance, with which the Beryozka first performed in Hermitage Garden in 1948. The dance became not just a symbol of the ensemble. The great Russian choreographer Nadezhda Nadezhdina created a masterpiece that embodies all the beauty and the very essence of the Russian soul.

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By the middle of the 13th century, the area of the Lower Volga region was conquered by the Mongol-Tatars and became part of the newly formed powerful feudal state the Golden Horde. The Volga-Akhtubinskaya floodplain was an important section of medieval trade routes. The two largest trade routes crossed here. One went along the Volga River, the other was a caravan route from Khorezm to the Black Sea region.

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In 2021, the All-Russian Artistic Scientific Restoration Center celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of its founder Igor Grabar. Many people know him as a painter, a representative of Russian impressionism, a member of the leading artistic associations of the time, “World of Art” and “Union of Russian Artists”. But the work of Igor Grabar was not limited only to painting.

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The designers of a water tower whose construction began in 1929 in a settlement near Uralmash machinery plant could hardly imagine that this structure would become known by its proper name, turn into a city landmark and acquire the status of an architectural monument, only to be abandoned for more than half a century.

View More The White Tower Yekaterinburg’s Constructivist symbol becomes Russia’s cultural heritage site

Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, in her words of congratulations on the World Puppetry Day, noted that “today this fragile art is facing unprecedented trials”, and “it is our duty to preserve it”. In Russia, the history of a puppet theater is inextricably linked with the name of the outstanding director and actor Sergey Obraztsov.

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The Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev’s legacy includes not only world-class operas, ballets, and symphonies. He created a special musical language, innovative and one-of-a-kind. The public sometimes rejected Prokofiev’s works, which is not surprising, because he wrote not for the ‘here and now’ but aiming at the future.

View More A Futurist and the sun of the Russian music