BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society - ECPv5.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://camruss.com/en X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20200101T000000 END:STANDARD TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210926T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210926T173000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210707T195042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T144718Z UID:9548-1632668400-1632677400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Cambridge Treasure Hunt #4[:ru]«Бегущий Кембридж\, или поиск сокровищ» №4[:] DESCRIPTION:A team-based walking adventure exploring the city (a brand-new treasure hunt created by Tanya Yurasova* and Sayara Thompson). \nHow well do you know Cambridge? How observant are you? To find out\, please join us for our fun “treasure hunt”! The “treasures” are not real\, of course – they are merely some of the buildings and lanes of Cambridge that you’ll need to identify from photographs and find in the city centre in order to answer a number of questions. After a brisk stroll around the city\, we’ll meet to name the winners and celebrate! \nWhen: Sunday 26 September\, 15:00 – 17:30 (BST) \nWhere: Outdoors (please dress accordingly) \nMeeting point (start and finish): Diana’s Rose Garden – in Christ’s Pieces park between the Central Bus Station and the Grafton Centre. \nLanguage: Russian/English. You only need to be able to speak one of the two languages in order to take part; all questions will be in Russian and English. Bring along your Russian- or English-speaking friends\, colleagues and family members! \nTeams of 4 people. You may form and book your own team or\, if you are new and don’t know many people\, we can help you to form a team – a great way to make new friends. \nFee: FREE for CamRuSS members; Adults – £3; Family – £5 (two adults and children under 16 years old). Please pay with cash at the event. \nRegistration is required. Please register by filling in this form as soon as you can\, but no later than Friday 24 September. \nWhat is it? The “treasures” are visual – they are sights in central Cambridge; you will need to spot them from photos\, find them\, and answer some short questions. The idea is NOT to check your knowledge of Cambridge\, but to have fun in pleasant company\, enjoy the scenery\, and possibly learn a few interesting facts. Hence\, please bring along your smartphones – you will be allowed to use Google! \nBy the way\, please don’t be misled by the picture – it is only an illustration. We are not revealing the real questions to you! \n* Tanya Yurasova is a qualified green-badge Cambridge guide. Please see what guided city tours she offers here: https://tancam.uk/tours URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/cambridge-treasure-hunt-4/ CATEGORIES:Culture,Outdoor event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210923T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210923T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210705T145942Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T145333Z UID:9469-1632423600-1632429000@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Three Capitals in the Life and Work of the Russian Artist Alexander Florensky: St Petersburg-Tbilisi-Moscow (in Russian)[:ru]Три столицы в жизни и творчестве российского художника Александра Флоренского: Санкт-Петербург–Тбилиси–Москва (на русском языке)[:] DESCRIPTION:Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment\, St Petersburg. A. Florensky\, 2020 \nThis meeting with Leningrad-born artist Alexander Florensky\, who works in Moscow but has recently spent more time in Tbilisi\, is an illustrated journey to his favourite corners of three capital cities captured in his work – St Petersburg\, Tbilisi and Moscow. \nChonqadze Street\, Tbilisi. A. Florensky\, 2020 \nWHEN: Thursday 23 September 2021\, 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: Russian \nFEE: Voluntary donation* \nPlease REGISTER in advance (with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom joining link. \n  \n  \n  \nKhitrovka Yard\, Moscow. A. Florensky\, 2021 \nAbout the speaker \nAlexander Florensky (Photo: Sergei Sveshnikov\, 2010) \nAlexander Florensky is a painter\, graphic artist\, illustrator\, ceramist and collector. Born into a family of artists in Leningrad in 1960\, he graduated from the Department of Ceramics of Leningrad Higher School of Art and Design named after V. I. Mukhina (now the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design). \nHe was one of the founders of the famous Mitki group of artists (1985-2005). \nHe has also been a member of the St Petersburg Union of Artists since 1988 and is the author of numerous art\, cinematographic\, animation\, publishing and exhibition projects. \nTogether with Ivan Sotnikov\, he co-founded the Painting and Drawing Society in 2004. \nFlorensky’s works are held in the collections of the Russian State Museum\, the Hermitage (St Petersburg)\, the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Pushkin Fine Art Museum (Moscow)\, as well as in many other museums both in Russia and abroad\, including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London). \nHe is the creator of illustrated ABCs of the cities of Jerusalem\, St Petersburg\, Voronezh\, Kiev\, Odessa\, Tbilisi\, New York and Moscow\, as well as editions such as “Journey from Murmansk to Kirkenes” and “Travel in Tuscany”. \nFlorensky has illustrated a number of publications\, including the Collected Works of Sergei Dovlatov. \n\n \n \n \n \n Arctic and Antarctic Museum\, St Petersburg\, 2020\n \n \n \n \n \n Ulitsa Pravdy\, St Petersburg\, 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n Udelnaya Flea Market\, St Petersburg\, 2020\n \n \n \n \n \n View of Tiflis from Metekhi\, Tbilisi\, 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n Russian Church in Tbilisi\n \n \n \n \n \n Issac Levitan’s Studio\, Moscow\, 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n Morozov Garden\, Moscow\, 2021\n \n \n \n \n \n Sergei Dovlatov by A. Florensky\n \n \n\n\n* While there is no charge for our online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers’ efforts during this time.\nSuggested donation £5-£10. \nAll money raised by CamRuSS from membership fees & donations goes towards organising events\, supporting community projects\, and essential technical and administrative costs.\nYou can send your donations via:\n– a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nThe Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNatWest Bank\, Sort Code: 60-11-30\, Account: 25395637\n– PayPal to the following email address: camruss@camruss.com\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/three-capitals-in-the-life-and-work-of-the-russian-artist-alexander-florensky-st-petersburg-tbilisi-moscow-in-russian/ CATEGORIES:Art/History,Culture,Hidden,Online talk,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210802T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210806T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210628T102953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210722T201057Z UID:9420-1627894800-1628265600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Residential Russian Summer School in Cambridge - August 2021[:ru]Летний курс русского языка в Кембридже\, с проживанием (для взрослых) - август 2021[:] DESCRIPTION:Monday 2nd August – Friday 6th August 2021\nGirton College\, Cambridge CB3 0JG\nhttps://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/ \nThis five-day course is run in collaboration with the Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society. It is set in a charming Girton College\, with its beautiful gardens\, inspirational atmosphere\, and ample parking. There are regular buses to Cambridge city centre. \nWHO CAN TAKE PART: Anyone aged 15+ with any level of Russian\, from absolute beginners to fluent. There is no upper age limit!\nThis summer school would be beneficial for those in the middle of their A-LEVELS and/or those starting or doing a UNIVERSITY COURSE linked to Russian history\, politics\, literature or art.\n—–\nWHAT’S ON OFFER: \n\nA wonderful opportunity to combine learning with leisure and pleasure\, meet like-minded people\, and enjoy the ambience of an authentic Cambridge college.\n20 hours of tuition with experienced\, knowledgeable\, enthusiastic and fun-loving native-speaking tutors.\nFour levels. Placement test are offered at enrolment.\nDevelop your speaking\, listening\, reading and writing in a fun and creative way. Brush up your grammar\, immerse in conversation\, improve pronunciation\, and take delight in Russian literature!\nEnrich your vocabulary and gain a deeper insight into Russian culture\, traditions\, humour and way of life.\nGreat emphasis on interaction\, group work\, role-play\, debates and discussions.\nSocial & cultural programme: 15 hours in the target language\, e.g. games and discussions\, a film night\, a concert\, a talk by invited speaker\, poetry\, singing and drama\, to supplement your linguistic experience in a warm\, stimulating and inspirational atmosphere.\n\n—–\nFEES:\n– Non-residential (lunch and dinner) = £355;\n– En-suite room & full board = £670. (Sunday dinner is included in the residential fee.) \n15% discount for students under 25 in full-time education:\n– Non-residential (lunch and dinner) = £295;\n– En-suite room & full board = £570. (Sunday dinner is included in the residential fee.) \nThe fee includes a 25% non-refundable deposit\, but if cancelled on or after Monday 26th July no refund can be made\, unless the delegate in question is diagnosed with COVID-19 or has to self-isolate. \n—–\nHOW TO BOOK:\nPlease fill in the online enrolment form\, and pay the full fee to the account specified on the form. \nPlease complete the enrolment process as soon as possible\, to guarantee your place on the course. \nWITH ANY QUERIES: please email Dr Tanya Yurasova on tyurasova@gmail.com or call 0781 510 1481.\n—–\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/residential-russian-summer-school-in-cambridge-august-2021/ LOCATION:Girton College\, Huntingdon Rd\, Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire\, CB3 0JG\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Language,Masterclass ORGANIZER;CN="Tangential%20Cambridge":MAILTO:info@tancam.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210626T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210626T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210422T113951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210605T150817Z UID:9086-1624734000-1624739400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"White Nights": Evening of Songs and Music (in English and Russian) – Saturday\, 26 June at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]«Белые ночи»: Вечер Песни и Музыки (на английском и русском языках) – Суббота\, 26 Июня в 19:00 (BST)[:] DESCRIPTION:Pierre-Auguste Renoir\, Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) \nDear Friends! \nWe have missed meeting each other in person\, and therefore we are pleased to announce our traditional outdoors picnic on Saturday\, 26 June where we are looking forward to seeing you all! \nEvery year we celebrate an astronomical Midsummer night and cultural event called the White Nights. And\, of course\, what picnic occurs without songs accompanied by the guitar? There are many talented and musically gifted people in our wide community\, and we all love to sing. \nThis time we decided to add more creativity\, so please support our invitation and join our vintage-style themed picnic with Victorian era dresses\, lace umbrellas\, straw hats and willow picnic baskets. We will hold a competition for the best picnic dress. It will be fun! \nPlease come and share with us the good mood and warmth of the White Nights. \n“And Dusk directly (as if plotting\nTo keep the golden skies alight)\nHands on the torch to Dawn\, allotting\nA brief half-hour to cheated Night.” (A.S. Pushkin\, “The Bronze Horseman\,” translated by John Dewey\, 1996-97. The text of the translation is reproduced here by kind permission of Edinburgh University Press). \n  \nWHEN: Saturday\, 26 June\, 19:00 (BST) \nWHERE:  Midsummer Common – on the field opp. Fort St. George Pub\, Cambridge CB5 8DR \nLANGUAGE: English and Russian \nREGISTRATION: Please REGISTER before Friday\, 25 June by filling in this form. \n  \nWe plan to position ourselves on the Midsummer Common field\, not far from the Fort St. George Pub. Please bring rugs and foldable chairs for comfort! Guitars\, of course\, are paramount\, and you may also wish to bring drinks and snacks. Please remember to take your umbrellas and raincoats in case it rains. \nWe are looking forward to seeing you! \n  URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/white-nights-singing-party-in-english-and-russian-saturday-26-june-at-1900-tbc-and-more-details-to-follow/ CATEGORIES:Health and wellbeing,Music,Outdoor event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210624T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210624T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210422T115305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210625T131010Z UID:9093-1624561200-1624566600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Ivanovo – the ‘Russian Manchester’\, and the Story of Printed Textiles in Russia"\, a talk by Pamela Smith – Thursday\, 24 June at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]«Иваново -«Русский Манчестер» и История Печатного Текстиля в России»\, лекция Памелы Смит - Четверг\, 24 Июня в 19:00 (BST)[:] DESCRIPTION:Before the 1917 Revolution Russia had a thriving textile industry\, exporting vast quantities of printed cotton throughout the Russian empire and beyond. In the city of Ivanovo alone nearly 30\,000 textile workers were employed. Distinctive red prints became an important element of folk dress\, and in the 1920s and ’30s designs promoted the philosophy of the new Soviet state. This talk explores the colourful and sometimes dramatic history of the industry\, including its links with Britain. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 24 June 2021\, 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nFEE: Voluntary donation* \nPlease REGISTER in advance (with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom joining link. \n  \nAbout the speaker \nPamela Smith (2021) \nPamela Smith is a textile and dress historian. She trained as an embroiderer before spending six months in Moscow in 1987\, where she was able to develop her life-long interest in Russian art and culture. Her MA dissertation concentrated on Russian Arts & Crafts embroideries of the late 19th – early 20th centuries\, while her current research concerns British workers in the Russian cotton textile industry before 1917. \nFor more information\, please see Pamela Smith’s website. \n\nBibliography: The History of Cotton Textile Printing in Russia and the USSR \n Arsen’eva\, E V. Ивановские Ситцы (Ivanovskie Sittsy / Ivanovo Calico). Khudozhnik RSFSR. Leningrad\, 1983 \nEfimova\, L. Русский Народный Костюм (Russkiye Narodnii Kostyum / Folk Russian Costume. From the collection of the State History Museum\, Moscow). Sovetskaya Rossiya. Moscow\, 1989 \nFitzpatrick\, Anne Lincoln. The Great Russian Fair. St Martin’s Press. New York\, 1990 (about the Nizhnii Novgorod Fair) \nGordeyeva\, Olga et al. Русские Узорные Ткани (Russkiye Uzorniye Tkani / Russian Patterned Fabrics\, XVII – beg. XX century). State History Museum. Moscow\, 2004 \nGordeyeva\, Olga (intro). Russian Kerchiefs and Shawls. Aurora. Leningrad\, 1985 \nJacqué\, Jacqueline et al. Andrinople Le Rouge Magnifique. Editions de La Martinière. Paris\, 1995 \nMeller\, Susan. Russian Textiles: Printed Cloth for the Bazaars of Central Asia. Abrams. New York\, 2007 \nMeller\, Susan. Silk and Cotton – textiles from the Central Asia that was. Abrams. New York\, 2013 \nMuseum of Modern Art\, Oxford/Crafts Council/ Ministry of Culture\, USSR. Art into Production – Soviet Textiles\, Fashion and Ceramics 1917-1935. (in conjunction with exhibition in Oxford & London – 1984-5) \nSandberg\, Gösta. The Red Dyes: Cochineal\, Madder and Murex Purple. Lark Books. Asheville\, 1997 \nStrizhenova\, Tatiana. Soviet Costume and Textiles\, 1917-1945. Flammarion. Paris\, 1991 \nWard\, Chris. Russia’s cotton workers and the New Economic Policy. (Shop-floor culture and state policy 1921-1929). Cambridge University Press\, 1990 \nYasinskaya\, I. Soviet Textile Design of the Revolutionary Period. Thames and Hudson. London\, 1983 \nhttps://rusmir.media/2021/01/05/sitez?fbclid=IwAR1oaBkXn0arQLw6jw5kM6F3cXNhWp58JWubp_xG–pyjs2ml8BHCUkU3w0 \nhttps://rusmir.media/2021/01/05/sitez?fbclid=IwAR1oaBkXn0arQLw6jw5kM6F3cXNhWp58JWubp_xG–pyjs2ml8BHCUkU3w0 \nPamela Smith\, www.drawnground.co.uk \n\n* While there is no charge for our online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers’ efforts in bringing more speakers and online events during the social distancing time.\nSuggested donation £5-£10. \nAll the money that CamRuSS raise from membership fees & donations goes towards organising events\, supporting community projects\, and essential technical and administrative costs.\nYou can send your donations by:\n– a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nThe Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30 Account: 25395637\n– PayPal with CamRuSS’ email address: camruss@camruss.com\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/ivanovo-the-russian-manchester/ CATEGORIES:Art/History,Culture,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210604T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210604T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210422T113636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210510T114353Z UID:9082-1622833200-1622838600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Russian Language: Between the Past and the Future\," a lecture by Evgeny Vodolazkin (in Russian) – Friday\, 4 June at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]“Русский Язык: между Прошлым и Будущим”\, лекция Евгения Водолазкина (на русском языке) – Пятница\, 4 Июня в 19:00 (BST)[:] DESCRIPTION:Evgeny Vodolazkin will talk about changes occurring in the modern Russian language. What do they testify to? How should we treat them? \nWHEN: Friday\, 4 June at 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: Russian \nFEE: Voluntary donation* \nPlease REGISTER in advance (with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom joining link. \n  \nAbout the speaker \nEvgeny Vodolazkin (London\, 2011) \nEvgeny Germanovich Vodolazkin DPhil (b. 1964 in Kyiv) is a writer and literary critic. In 1986 he graduated from the philological faculty of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv\, and in 1990 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg). In 2000 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled “World history in the literature of Ancient Russia (based on chronographic and Paleya Chronicle materials of the 11th-15th centuries).” \nSince 1990 he has been working in the Department of Ancient Russian Literature at Pushkin House\, and since 2012 he has been the editor-in-chief of the almanac “Text and Tradition.” \nEvgeny Vodolazkin’s novel Laurus was shortlisted by the Guardian newspaper among the 10 best novels that deal with the presence or absence of God. The novel won several awards\, including the Yasnaya Polyana\, the Big Book awards and the Alexander Solzhenitsyn literature prize. Archbishop of Canterbury\, Rowan Williams\, dedicated his 2016 TEDxOxBridge talk entitled “A Curious Novel: Postmodernism and Holy Madness” (05.07.2016) to Vodolazkin’s Laurus. \nAccording to the Russia Beyond the Headlines rating of the best Russian writers\, Evgeny Vodolazkin took the 25th place (the highest among living authors). \nEvgeny lives in St Petersburg. \n\n* While there is no charge for our online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers’ efforts in bringing more speakers and online events during the social distancing time.\nSuggested donation £5-£10. \nAll the money that CamRuSS raise from membership fees & donations goes towards organising events\, supporting community projects\, and essential technical and administrative costs.\nYou can send your donations by:\n– a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nThe Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30 Account: 25395637\n– PayPal with CamRuSS’ email address: camruss@camruss.com\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/russian-language-between-the-past-and-future-with-eugene-vodolazkin/ CATEGORIES:Culture,Language,Literature,Online talk,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210531T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210531T180000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210422T113443Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210524T211431Z UID:9080-1622458800-1622484000@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Mayovka" BBQ: Outdoor event – Monday\, 31 May\, 11:00 - 18:00 (BST)[:ru]Майские шашлыки на природе – Понедельник\, 31 мая\, 11:00-18:00 (BST)[:] DESCRIPTION:A scene from the movie “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears” (1980) \nIn order to comply with the coronavirus restrictions and legal gathering limits in outdoor settings of up to 30 people\, \nPlease REGISTER before Friday\, 28 May by filling in this form. \nThe first 15 registrants (from different families) will receive a gift from CamRuSS at the BBQ! \n  \nCome and join us at this traditional May Bank holiday outing! Enjoy the fresh air and relax with us in the sun\, sing\, jump\, play outdoor games\, participate in fun competitions and share the food and drink. \nPLEASE BRING: Foods for the barbecue (meat and vegetarian options)\, snacks and drinks to share. \nYou might also bring footballs\, frisbee\, badminton\, skipping ropes\, guitars\, etc. \nWe aim to meet in the BBQ area of the park at around 11:00\, have a BBQ – with food and drinks to share – between 12:30 and 15:30. \nWHEN: Monday\, 31 May\, 11:00 – 18:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Wandlebury Country Park on the Gog Magog Hills\, CB22 3AE \nSee Wandlebury Country Park visitor guide. \nBBQ area in the park. \nDIRECTIONS: \nCAR: Wandlebury Country Park is signposted with brown Country Park signs off the A1307 Cambridge to Haverhill Road\, 2.5 miles south of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital roundabout. \nPlease click here for the diagram of the roads. \nPARKING: Visitors’ car park at the Main Entrance off the A1307. There is a parking charge of £3 per car. \nBUS: Number 13 to Haverhill (on Sundays):\n– leaves Drummer Street (Cambridge) at 10:20\, 11:20\, 12:20\, etc.\n– arrives at Wandlebury at 10:39\, 11:39\, 12:39\, etc. \nBICYCLE (24 min from Cambridge City Centre): There is a separate\, safe\, cycle path alongside the A1307 Hills Road\, leaving Cambridge\, from Addenbrooke’s  Hospital past the Babraham Park & Ride to Wandlebury where it ends. There is no cycle path from Haverhill to Wandlebury. \nNo cycling in the park is allowed\, except for under 8s\, and cycles should be secured in the parking area cycle stands. \nDOGS: need to be kept on a lead in the Park but can be freely exercised in the adjacent Gog Magog Trust area. \nWe are looking forward to seeing you at the BBQ! \n  URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/mayovka-bbq-monday-31-may-900-1600-tbc-and-more-details-to-follow/ CATEGORIES:Health and wellbeing,Outdoor event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210521T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20210521T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210418T104822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210528T163313Z UID:9049-1621623600-1621629000@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Marking the Centenary of Academician Andrei Sakharov: Panel discussion (in English and Russian) – Friday\, 21 May at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]Круглый стол: Сто лет со дня рождения академика Андрея Дмитриевича Сахарова (на английском и русском языках) – Пятница\, 21 мая в 19:00 (BST)[:] DESCRIPTION:Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989) \nA theoretical physicist and one of the creators of the Soviet hydrogen bomb\, Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was also an earnest advocate for ending the Cold War\, a dissident and a devout defender of human rights in the Soviet Union. His scrupulous sense of fairness\, clear and captivating logic\, and unselfish dedication to the cause of peace and justice made many feel that he was the “conscience of the people”. Sakharov died two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Had he lived longer\, who knows – the course of events might have taken a different turn. \nThe name of Sakharov is well known\, but not necessarily all the published information about him is accurate or complete. How much do we really know about his life\, ideas\, aspirations\, labours\, and achievements? \nWHEN: Friday\, 21 May 2021\, 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English and Russian \nFEE: Voluntary donation* \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease REGISTER in advance (with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom joining link. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThere are so many aspects of Andrei Sakharov’s personality that it is an almost impossible undertaking to discuss and explore them all in one evening\, but our panellists will help us add a few brushstrokes to a portrait of the great man. \nPanel: \n\nGennady Gorelik \nGennady Gorelik\, physicist originally from Russia\, author\, and until recently Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science\, Boston University\, USA. His book The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist’s Path to Freedom was published in English in 2005 by Oxford University Press (in Russian: “Андрей Сахаров: наука и свобода”). For more information about his work\, please see this website\, https://ggorelik.wordpress.com/ \nPresentation slides of Gennady Gorelik’s talk. \n  \n  \nAlexander Daniel \nAlexander Daniel\, Soviet dissident\, mathematician\, author and researcher of the history of human-rights movement and dissidents in Russia and the USSR. He took part in publications of the Samizdat literature such as The Chronicles of the Current Events\, and the historical almanac Memory. Board member of “Memorial”\, an international historical and civil-rights society. Until recently\, he was responsible for the programme “History of Dissidents in the USSR”. \n  \nDavid Holloway \nDavid Holloway\, Professor of International History at Stanford University\, USA. His research focuses on the international history of nuclear weapons\, science and technology in the Soviet Union. Author of the book Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy\, 1939-1956 (Yale University Press\, 1994). He did both his undergraduate studies and PhD in Cambridge\, UK. \nRemarks of David Holloway’s talk.  \n  \nQ&As will follow the panel discussion in both English and Russian. \nYou may like to watch these videos about Andrei Sakharov (in Russian): “А.Д. Сахаров – 100 лет” (A.D. Sakharov – 100 years)\, and “Мой муж Андрей Сахаров” (My Husband\, Andrei Sakharov). To turn on auto-generated English subtitles\, click on the cogwheel in the menu\, turn the subtitles on\, choose “auto-translate\,” and choose the language (English) from the dropdown menu. \n\n* While there is no charge for our online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers’ efforts in bringing more speakers and online events during the social distancing time.\nSuggested donation £5-£10. \nAll the money that CamRuSS raise from membership fees & donations goes towards organising events\, supporting community projects\, and essential technical and administrative costs.\nYou can send your donations by:\n– a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nThe Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30 Account: 25395637\n– PayPal with CamRuSS’ email address: camruss@camruss.com\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/marking-the-centenary-of-academician-andrei-sakharov-panel-discussion-friday-21-may-at-1900-bst/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210507T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210507T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210218T115125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210507T101542Z UID:8825-1620414000-1620419400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Mikhail Bulgakov as a unique\, XX century Russian artist with Prof. Irina Mineralova (in Russian) – Friday\, 7 May at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков - уникальный русский художник ХХ века - с профессором Ириной Георгиевной Минераловой (на русском языке) – Пятница\, 7 мая в 19:00[:] DESCRIPTION:Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) \nWhy is it often difficult to render literature into film? The magic of Bulgakov’s words\, his synthesis of ideas and images of ideas are the answer. Bulgakov needs to be listened to! One needs to hear him. His words passionately combine history\, culture\, the music of Kiev and Moscow. He was a miracle maker. Let’s take a closer look and listen to how he did it in his best works! \nOn the eve of the 130th anniversary of the writer’s birth\, Irina Georgievna Mineralova will talk about the works of M.A. Bulgakov\, who was one of the most versatile Russian and Soviet artists of the XX century\, a writer\, playwright\, theatre director and actor. \nWHEN: Friday\, 7 May 2021\, 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: Russian (with texts and short translations in English) \nFEE: Voluntary donation* \nPlease note that there will be slides with texts in both Russian and English. Additionally\, the core thesis of Irina’s talk will be translated into English in the chat by Moscow philologist and Irina’s son\, Georgy Mineralov\, who kindly agreed to provide support with this lecture in order to make it available for English speaking participants. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions in both languages. \nPlease REGISTER in advance (with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom joining link. \nAbout the speaker \nIrina Mineralova \nIrina Georgievna Mineralova is a literary critic and Professor of the Department of Russian Literature and Journalism of the XX-XXI centuries at Moscow State Pedagogical University (MPGU). She is the author of 5 monographs\, 6 textbooks and teaching aids\, not to mention more than 300 articles on the theory and history of Russian literature\, children’s literature and methods of teaching literature. She also authored a book of poems entitled “A Bouquet of Autumn Leaves.” \nIrina Georgievna graduated from Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushinsky in 1975\, where she received a diploma with honours majoring in “the teaching of Russian language and literature.” Afterwards\, she successfully completed her postgraduate studies at the A.M. Gorky Literary Institute in 1983\, having defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic of “Artistic synthesis in Russian literature of the XX century.” \n\n* While there is no charge for our online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers’ efforts in bringing more speakers and online events during the social distancing time.\nSuggested donation £5-£10. \nAll the money that CamRuSS raise from membership fees & donations goes towards organising events\, supporting community projects\, and essential technical and administrative costs.\nYou can send your donations by:\n– a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nThe Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30 Account: 25395637\n– PayPal with CamRuSS’ email address: camruss@camruss.com\nTHANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/mikhail-afanasyevich-bulgakov-1891-1940-as-a-unique-xx-century-russian-artist-friday-7-may-at-1900-gmt/ CATEGORIES:Art/History,Culture,Language,Literature,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210423T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210423T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210319T011556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T142444Z UID:8950-1619204400-1619208000@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Poetry Readings with Marina Boroditskaya (in Russian) – Friday\, 23 April at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]Вечер Поэзии с Мариной Бородицкой (на русском языке) – Пятница\, 23 апреля в 19:00[:] DESCRIPTION:A special opportunity to meet Marina Boroditskaya – a poet and renowned translator of English\, American and French classical poetry\, including the first Russian translation of Chaucer’s ‘Troilus and Criseyde’\, Shakespeare\, Donne\, the Cavalier poets\, Burns\, Keats and Kipling. Some participants might recognise her from her Radio Russia Literary Pharmacy programme – the Russian equivalent of Poetry Please! – which stayed on air for 21 years\, from 1997 to 2018. Marina will be reading favourite excerpts from her books and translations and reciting her poetry. \nWHEN: Friday\, 23 April 2021\, 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: Russian \nPlease REGISTER in advance (with your name and email address). After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom joining link \nAbout the speaker \nMarina Boroditskaya \nMarina Boroditskaya was born in Moscow in 1954 and started regularly publishing in 1978. She has been contributing her poetry to Noviy Mir and Arion magazines and her translations have been featured regularly in Inostrannaya Literatura. The list of her poetry collections includes I Am Undressing a Soldier (1994)\, Single Skating (1999)\, The Year Of The Horse (2002)\, It Should Be Possible (2005)\, Ode To Myopia (2009)\, Cupid On The Windowsill. Love poems (2013)\, Still It Spins (2013) and Quiet Games (2019). In 2006 she was awarded the British Council Lion and Unicorn prize for translations of English poetry\, received Inolittle prize from Inostrannaya Literatura in 2007 and the Master Translator Prize for her book on the Cavalier Poets in 2010. \nMarina is the author of over twenty books for children which brought her three national awards\, including the most prestigious Korney Chukovsky prize and Hans Christian Andersen Award diploma in 2013. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/poetry-readings-with-marina-boroditskaya-in-russian-friday-23-april-at-1900-gmt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210415T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210415T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210223T104424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T172219Z UID:8846-1618513200-1618518600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Belarus\, the Keystone in Europe’s Borderlands with Neil Kent - Thursday\, 15 April at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]"Беларусь — краеугольный камень европейского приграничья" с Нилом Кентом – Четверг\, 15 Апреля в 19:00[:] DESCRIPTION:Brest Fortress \nThis talk will focus upon the complex history\, culture\, religions and political role of Belarus in a wider European context\, whilst also considering its recent internal developments and especially the role of its churches. \nSimplistic conclusions in the media about its politics and current upheavals do not do the reality justice. \n  \n  \nWHEN: Thursday\, 15 April 2021\, 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \nAbout the speaker \nNeil Kent \nProf Neil Kent is an historian with a wide range of research interests\, in particular Russia\, Ukraine and Crimea. He is currently an associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute\, University of Cambridge and was Associate Professor at the École Spéciale Militaire de St-Cyr (France) in 2018-2020. Neil worked for ten years as a Professor of European History and Culture at St Petersburg State Academic Institute of Art\, Sculpture and Architecture (The Russian Academy of Art). \nNeil is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligence and Cyber Security\, Academica Press\, Washington D.C.\, since 2018. He is also a Senior Treasurer at Cambridge University Scandinavian\, Russian and Austrian Societies. \nNeil Kent has published a number of books\, including St Petersburg (Innercities)\, Signal Books (Oxford)\, 2017\, Crimea: A History\, Hurst & Co (London); Oxford University Press (New York)\, 2016. A Concise History of the Russian Orthodox Church\, Academica Press (Washington D.C. and London)\, to be released early in 2021. \nNeil fluently speaks eleven languages\, including Russian. \nLanguage: English\, Q&As with Russian interpreting\, when required. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/belarus-the-keystone-in-europes-borderlands-with-neil-kent-thursday-15-april-at-1900-gmt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210408T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210408T190000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210305T122755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210407T171755Z UID:8895-1617908400-1617908400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Gagarin\, Zvyozdochka and Prime Minister Macmillan: the Build-up to and Aftermath of the First Human Spaceflight" with Doug Millard - Thursday\, 8 April at 19:00 (BST)[:ru]«Первый Полет Человека в Космос: Гагарин\, Звездочка и Премьер-министр Макмиллан» с Дагом Миллардом - Четверг\, 8 Апреля в 19:00[:] DESCRIPTION:Monument to the Conquerors of Space frieze\, Moscow\, showing Laika and Gagarin \nYuri Gagarin conducted the first human spaceflight in April 1961. His success and personality won him admirers around the world\, including the thousands in Britain who welcomed him to these shores later that year. But Gagarin’s flight only happened once preceding missions with dogs were safely returned to Earth from orbit. This talk looks at the Soviet space heroes of 1961\, canine and human\, and the fame of Gagarin as he visited London and Manchester in July\, 1961. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 8 April 2021 at 19:00 (BST)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout the speaker \nDoug Millard \nDoug Millard is Deputy Keeper Technologies and Engineering. He has produced many space exhibitions\, written articles\, papers and books including a history of the Black Arrow satellite launch vehicle and its engines\, lectured widely and appeared on television and radio. In 2006 he gained his MSc in the History of Science\, Technology and Medicine at the University of London. In April 2012 he co-organised with the UK Space Agency a conference held at the Science Museum to mark the 50th anniversary of the Ariel 1 satellite. He was senior curator for the ‘Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age’ exhibition (2015) and editor of the associated publication. His book ‘Satellite: Innovation in Orbit’ was published by Reaktion Books early 2017. In 2016 he curated the acquisition and display of the Soyuz TMA-19M descent module – used by Tim Peake\, Yuri Malenchenko and Tim Kopra during their mission to and from the International Space Station\, 2015-16 – along with the associated virtual reality experience Space Descent VR. In 2019 he organised the Culture Space research programme of three workshops that investigated new ways of representing space exploration in the museum gallery. In 2020 he contributed to a BBC Radio 4 programme on the life of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He is currently developing with colleagues a major research programme on global perspectives of space exploration that will inform development of a new space gallery at the Science Museum later this decade. \n  URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/gagarin-zvyozdochka-and-prime-minister-macmillan-the-build-up-to-and-aftermath-of-the-first-human-spaceflight-thursday-8-april-at-1900-gmt/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210401T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210401T173000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210321T133354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T013342Z UID:8994-1617292800-1617298200@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Easter Origami Craft Master class with Lyudmila Perlova (in Russian) - Thursday\, 1 April at 16:00 (GMT)[:ru]Пасхальный Мастер-класс Оригами с Людмилой Перловой (на русском языке) - Четверг\, 1 апреля в 16:00[:] DESCRIPTION:Dear friends\, you are invited to take part in an Easter family activity – Origami Craft Master class – which will be held online in the Russian language. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 1 April 2021 at 16:00 (GMT)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: Russian \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \n«Пасхальные поделки» – занятие для детей и взрослых и рассчитано на людей\, кто не слишком хорошо знаком с оригами\, но заинтересован попробовать. Занятие будет проходить онлайн\, на русском языке. Обратите внимание\, что для того чтобы поделка получилась хорошо\, ребенку скорее всего понадобится помощь взрослого. Именно поэтому\, наша встреча – семейное занятие\, а не просто мастер класс для детей.\nМы планируем сделать три варианта оригами зайчика\, от простого до сложного\, а также познакомить вас с особенностями оригами. \nДля нашей встречи подготовьте\, пожалуйста:\n– цветную бумагу\, нарезанную на квадраты 21 Х 21 см (из листа А4)\, или любую оберточную бумагу\, нарезанную на квадраты 15-20 см;\n– желтую бумагу\, нарезанную на квадраты 5-7 см;\n– фломастеры или карандаши;\n– скотч\n– и хорошее настроение! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/easter-origami-craft-class-with-lyudmila-perlova-in-russian-date-tbc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210312T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210326T235900 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210208T120747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210327T122643Z UID:8807-1615539600-1616803140@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]CamRuSS Easter Art Sale - 12-26 March[:ru]Пасхальный Онлайн Аукцион произведений искусства КемРуСС – 12-26 мaрта 2021[:] DESCRIPTION:Our charitable Easter Art Sale Auction is LIVE on the auction platform Jumblebee. \nThe artworks are available for viewing and bidding until midnight on Friday\, 26 March. \nYou will need to register on the auction website with your e-mail address to submit your bid. \n \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nFollowing the success of the first event\, we would like to invite you to take part in our second online Easter Art Sale. Artworks will be available for viewing and bidding from 12 to 26 March 2021. \nThis time\, we plan to extend the range of items on offer to include not only paintings and graphic art but a wider variety of art and craft pieces. We welcome any original\, contemporary or antique pieces: artworks\, ornaments\, textiles\, ceramics\, etc.\, particularly\, but not only\, those originating in Russia or the former Soviet Republics. \nWe aim to avoid offering any mass-produced items\, in order to continue promoting independent creators. Please consider donating if you wish to find a new home for your art and/or craftworks which could cheer up your Cambridgeshire neighbour\, whilst also supporting our charity. \nWe have also slightly amended the terms of the forthcoming auction. For artists\, CamRuSS is proposing to equally split the proceeds of the sold item(s) with the contributors (the authors) to show our appreciation of the local art community and support for independent artists. All other items will be treated as donations. \nWe will donate 10% of the proceeds to Gift of Life Charity\, which helps children and young adults in Russia to fight cancer and life-threatening blood diseases. \n  \nCamRuSS Easter Art Sale Timetable: \nSunday\, 28 February – Deadline for submitting your works.\nWednesday\, 10 March – Catalogue is made available to the CamRuSS members.\nFriday\, 12 March\, noon – Auction Opens on Jumblebee; Catalogue available to everybody on our website; bidding starts.\nFriday\, 19 March – Online presentation of the auctioned items\nFriday\, 26 March\, midnight – Bidding ends and Auction closes. \nYou may view the CamRuSS Easter Art Sale Catalogue here: \n \n \n \n \n \n Loading...\n \n \n \n \n \n Taking too long?\n \n \n \n Reload document \n |\n \n Open in new tab \n \n \n \n Download \n  \nOnline presentation of the auctioned items  \nWHEN: Friday\, 19 March 2021\, 19:00 (GMT)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nYou may watch the video recording of this presentation here. \nDuring the online presentation of the art pieces Elena Richer\, CamRuSS Art sale coordinator\, together with some artists presented each artwork\, provided details on them and answered questions from the audience. \n  \nYou can pay for your purchased item by BACS or PayPal. The buyer covers the cost of shipping. Free delivery might be available within Cambridge (subject to agreement). \nPlease send your questions to Elena Richer elena_richer@yahoo.co.uk or events@camruss.com. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/camruss-easter-art-sale-12-26-march-2021/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210305T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210305T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210125T140257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210306T145203Z UID:8782-1614970800-1614976200@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Writing the Siege of Leningrad" with Anna Reid - Friday\, 5 March at 19:00 (GMT)[:ru]«Изучая и описывая блокаду Ленинграда» c Анной Рид – Пятница\, 5 марта в 19:00[:] DESCRIPTION:Anna Reid\, LENINGRAD: Tragedy of a City Under Siege\, 1941-44\, Bloomsbury\, 2011 \n27 January 1944 is a sacred date in the memory of most Leningraders. On this day\, seventy-seven years ago\, the siege of Leningrad was finally lifted after 872 days of total blockade imposed on the city by the Axis powers during the Second World War. \nThis year marks 80 years since the outbreak of the deadliest of human tragedies of the 20th century\, which took the lives of over 800\,000 people. Anna Reid dedicated several years to her research about the siege\, placing the focus on personal encounters of its witnesses and survivors. Her publication “LENINGRAD: Tragedy of a City Under Siege\, 1941-44” tells a moving story of “the depths and heights of human behaviour” in unprecedented circumstances. This year will be the 10th anniversary of its first publication. Anna kindly agreed to talk to us about her work\, share her personal encounters from the meetings with the blokadniki and their families and other insights into her extensive research in Russia. \n“The siege’s most eloquent victims – the diarists whose voices form the core of this book – are easy to relate to. They are not faceless poor-world peasants but educated city-dwelling Europeans – writers\, artists\, university lecturers\, librarians\, museum curators\, factory managers\, bookkeepers\, pensioners\, housewives\, students and schoolchildren; owners of the best coats\, gramophones\, favourite novels\, pet dogs – people\, in short\, much like ourselves. Some did turn out to be heroes\, others to be selfish and callous\, most to be a mixture of both. As a memoirist puts it of the Party representatives in the wartime military hospital\, “There were good ones\, bad ones\, and the usual”. “Their words are their best memorial.” (Anna Reid) \nAnna Reid presents her book “LENINGRAD: Tragedy of a City Under Siege\, 1941-44” \nLeningrad is magnificent living history: all life and death is in these burning pages (The Guardian Review\, 2011) \n  \nWHEN: Friday\, 5 March 2021\, 19:00 (GMT)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nAbout the speaker \nAnna Reid \nAnna Reid is an English journalist and author whose work focuses primarily on the history of Eastern Europe. She read law at Oxford University and studied Russian History at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. After working as a consultant and business journalist\, she moved to Kiev\, where she acted as the Ukraine correspondent for the Economist from 1993 to 1995. From 2003 to 2007 she worked for the British think-tank Policy Exchange\, editing several of their publications and running the foreign affairs programme. \nHer first book\, Borderland: A Journey through the History of the Ukraine\, was published to wide acclaim in 1997. She is also the author of The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia (Bloomsbury\, 2003) and is currently working on The Russia Stunt which is forthcoming from John Murray. \n“LENINGRAD: Tragedy of a City Under Siege\, 1941-44” is currently available on amazon.co.uk \n\nCamRuSS held an art exhibition  “Elena Marttila: Art and Endurance in the Siege of Leningrad\,” at Darwin College\, Cambridge\, accompanied by a series of talks and film screenings in 2017. Video recordings of the talks are available in the programme section of the exhibition’s website. \nOn the theme of Russian WWII Poetry\, you can view the presentation slides of a talk by Dr Maria Bloshteyn (22 October 2020) with some of the poems included in the bilingual book of poetry “Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War.” Dr Bloshteyn’s edited volume can be purchased from its publisher Smockestack Books or from various bookshops: Blackwell’s (Heffers)\, Waterstones\, Poetry Book Society\, or Amazon. \nYou can also read two book reviews “Comrade\, Shed No Tears” in magazine Literary Review by Robert Chandler and “Russia’s Great Patriotic War” in The Postil Magazine by N. Dass. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/writing-the-siege-of-leningrad-with-anna-reid-friday-5-march-at-1900-gmt/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210222T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210222T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210111T181648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210112T104828Z UID:8765-1614018600-1614024000@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]CamRuSS Annual General Meeting (AGM) – Monday\, 22 February\, 18:30[:ru]Ежегодное отчётно-перевыборное собрание КемРуСС – Понедельник\, 22 февраля\, 18:30[:] DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite all CamRuSS members to join our virtual AGM where we will deliver a report of the last year’s activities\, address any questions and suggestions\, introduce the renewed Board of Trustees and Advisers for 2021 and present and discuss plans for 2021.\nThe opening address will be delivered by Libby Howie\, a patron of CamRuSS. Your participation and input at AGM are very important to us. \nWHEN: Monday\, 22 February 2021\, 18:30 (GMT)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nIf you are unsure about your membership status\, please check it by sending an email to membership@camruss.com. \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/camruss-annual-general-meeting-agm-monday-22-february-1830/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210211T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210211T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20210108T213750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210213T200851Z UID:8730-1613070000-1613075400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"The Portland Spy Ring" by Stephen Dalziel - Thursday\, 11 February\, 19:00[:ru]"Портлендская шпионская сеть" со Стивеном Диэлом - Четверг\, 11 февраля\, 19:00[:] DESCRIPTION:Morris Cohen – an American Communist who worked for the USSR \nEspionage\, spies and secrets are words which excite great curiosity\, even fear. Is it the world of James Bond? Or was John le Carré closer to the mark? The Portland Spy Ring of the late 1950s and early 1960s showed how espionage can involve people who live apparently ordinary lives. But serious damage was done to British interests. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWHEN: Thursday\, 11 February 2021\, 19:00 (GMT)\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \nAbout the speaker \nStephen Dalziel \nStephen Dalziel has been involved with the Soviet Union and Russia from an early age. After studying Russian in school he gained a degree in Russian Studies from the University of Leeds\, which included spending a year in the USSR. He spent six years as a Soviet military analyst at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst\, before moving to the BBC World Service as Russian Affairs Analyst. During 16 years at the BBC\, Stephen reported on the collapse of the USSR\, the chaos of the 1990s and the rise of Vladimir Putin\, interviewing many of those who helped bring about the changes\, notably Mikhail Gorbachev. After leaving the BBC\, Stephen ran the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce for five years\, and for nearly a decade has worked independently on a number of projects\, in recent years translating political and history books from Russian to English. \nFor more information about Stephen Dalziel’s work\, please visit his website www.sdwriting.org  \n  \nStephen’s comments on some of the participants’ questions: \nTo Susan Dennehy: No\, Yevgeny Ivanov (who was involved with Christine Keeler in the Profumo Affair) wasn’t involved with the Portland Spy Ring. Even though he was at the Soviet Embassy in London from March 1960 – January 1963\, by this time (indeed\, from July 1959) Houghton was being handled entirely by Molody (Lonsdale) and his connection with the Embassy had been terminated. \nTo Jane Milton and her sister\, Sarah Thomson: Thank you SO much for adding your experience to the story. It was fascinating having you in the audience\, able to bring in your father’s memories of the case. A fantastic addition. Thank you very much! \nTo Robin Spratt: It seems that\, despite the lack of an ideology (as you rightly point out) the KGB is not having a problem recruiting – although what may be questionable is the quality of candidates. Putin has raised up the security services\, so there is a certain prestige in working for them. But this doesn’t always bring in the best people\, and the kind of mistakes made by e.g. the GRU agents who went to Salisbury to kill Sergei Skipal or those who failed to kill Navalny shows a level of incompetence which (I am guessing) would annoy Putin! For more on the security services\, I recommend the various books by Andrei Soldatov\, an excellent investigative journalist. \n  \nStephen mentioned the book “Dead Doubles” by Trevor Barnes during his talk. You can find it on Weidenfeld & Nicolson publisher website and on Amazon. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/the-portland-spy-ring-by-stephen-dalziel-thursday-11-february-1900/ CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210115T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210115T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20201221T191433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201222T124706Z UID:8694-1610737200-1610742600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"The National Republics of Russia’s Southwest: Dagestan and Kalmykia Compared" with Dr Edward Holland and Dr Elvira Churyumova – Friday\, 15 January\, 19:00[:ru]«Национальные республики юго-западa России: Дагестан и Калмыкия в сравнении» - Др Эдвард Холланд и Др Эльвира Чурюмова – Пятница\, 15 января\, 19:00 (GMT)[:] DESCRIPTION:The Sulakskiy Canyon\, Dagestan and the Single Poplar Tree\, Kalmykia \nFar from the Orthodox Cathedrals of Moscow and Russia’s heartland\, in the country’s southwest\, are two neighbouring regions where other religious traditions predominate. The republic of Dagestan\, in Russia’s North Caucasus\, is a diverse place where Islam has been practised for more than a millennium. Just to Dagestan’s north is the Buddhist-practising republic of Kalmykia. This presentation contrasts these two places\, drawing on their differences but also noting similarities between the two: history\, religious identity\, the challenges of minority status\, peripherality\, and economic underdevelopment. Dagestan\, with its mountainous and piedmont regions\, is characterised by contrasts–urban vs. rural\, modern vs. traditional\, Russian vs. non-Russian. Kalmykia’s fraught history–including deportation during World War II and forced sedentarisation during the early Soviet period–mark it as a region that the Russian state has tried to integrate\, at times forcefully\, into its institutions and structure. \nWHEN: Friday\, 15 January 2021\, 19:00 (GMT)\nWHERE: Zoom \nLANGUAGE: English \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n  \nAbout the speakers \nEdward C. Holland is an Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arkansas. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After completing his degree\, Edward was a Title VIII Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies\, part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington\, DC. From 2013 to 2016\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies at Miami University. He was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College\, University of Cambridge in the 2019-2020 academic year. \nElvira Churyumova has a BA degree in History from Kalmyk State University\, a PhD in Political Sciences from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow\, and an MSc degree in Migration Studies from Oxford University. From 2014-2018 she was a Research Associate with the Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project at Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit\, University of Cambridge. In 2018-2019 she worked on the project on Kalmyk refugees in Interwar Europe at the University of Arkansas with Dr Holland. She is currently an affiliated researcher at the Mongolia and Inner Studies Unit of the University of Cambridge. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/the-national-republics-of-russias-southwest-dagestan-and-kalmykia-compared-with-dr-edward-holland-and-dr-elvira-churyumova-friday-15-january-1900/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201218T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201218T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20201116T171328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201221T192430Z UID:8543-1608318000-1608323400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Online Cooking Class of Authentic Georgian Cuisine with Elena Riddle[:ru]Онлайн-кулинарный мастер-класс грузинской кухни с Еленой Риддл[:] DESCRIPTION:Niko Pirosmani\, Company Bego (1907) \nThis will be the first class in a series of virtual cooking classes we are planning to deliver over the next year with the aim to cover the diversity and rich heritage of the national dishes represented by the members of the Russian speaking community. \nElena Riddle is a food blogger who was born and grew up in Batumi\, Georgia. She currently lives in Letchworth and runs a masterclass ‘Lena Cooks You Eat’ on YouTube here. She is very passionate about the versatility and fusion of flavours in Georgian cuisine and will demonstrate how to make three different dishes with one main ingredient. \nYou will have an opportunity to chat\, ask questions and simply enjoy cooking together during this event. \nWHEN: Friday\, 18 December\, 19:00-20:30\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English \nTICKETS: Free \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nElena Riddle will be cooking four delicious dishes: Penovani Khachapuri\, which is the most important dish in Georgian culinary heritage\, plus three dishes using aubergine – Aubergines with tomato sauce\, Aubergines with mayonnaise sauce\, and Aubergine rolls with walnut sauce. \n  \nPenovani Khachapuri \nIngredients: \nPuff pastry x 2 rolls \nFor the cheese filling: \nHalloumi x 1 pack \nFeta x 1 /2 pack \nMozzarella x 1 pack \nEggs x 1-2 \nMilk x 4 tbs \nRecipe \nPut the oven on 200 degrees Celsius (or its equivalent for gas ovens) \nGrate the cheeses (feta cheese could be crumbled)\, add one egg\, mix well\, and set aside. \nLine the baking sheet (30 x 38cm) with parchment paper\, unroll the puff pastry onto the parchment paper\, make sure the pastry is right in the middle of the baking sheet. \nTake the fork and stab the pastry sheet randomly to prevent excessive raising. \nPut the cheese mixture on the pastry and distribute evenly leaving 2 cm from the edges. \nUnroll the second roll of the puff pastry\, stab with the fork again and cover the first roll with the cheese and crimp the edges together all the way around. Brush the top of the pastry with milk and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. \n  \nAubergines in tomato sauce \nIngredients: \nAubergines x 2 \nOnions x 2 medium \nTinned chopped tomatoes x 1 tin \nGarlic x 3 cloves \nFresh coriander x 1/2 bunch \nFresh basil x 1/2 bunch \nFresh parsley x 1/2 bunch \nSalt and pepper\, Olive or veg oil x 3 tbs. \nRecipe \nPeel the aubergines from four sides\, cut them in half and then slice each half in quarters. Fry in a hot frying pan with a little oil. Apply a light dusting of salt and set aside. \nFinely chop the onion and fry in the frying pan with 2 tablespoons of oil until golden. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes to the pan and fry for 5 minutes. Add 100ml of water to the pan and mix well\, then add previously fried aubergines and allow to cook for further 5-7 minutes on medium heat until sauce is reduced a little. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add finely chopped coriander\, parsley\, and crushed garlic. Cook for another 2 minutes and remove from the heat. \nServe hot or cold. \n  \nAubergines in mayonnaise sauce \nIngredients: \nAubergines x 2 \nMayo x 5 tbs \nGarlic x 4 cloves \nFresh coriander x 1/2 bunch \nSalt\, pepper olive or veg oil x 3 tbs. \nRecipe \nPeel the aubergines from four sides\, cut them in half and then slice each half in quarters. Fry in the hot frying pan with a little oil. Apply a light dusting of salt and set aside. \nVery finely chop the coriander and crush the garlic. Mix them together in the bowl or pestle and mortar\, add some salt and mix well. Add the mix into the mayonnaise\, add the grilled aubergines\, mix well and place in the fridge to cool. \n  \nAubergines in walnut sauce \nIngredients: \nAubergines x 2 \nWalnuts x 100 g \nGarlic x 4 cloves \nFresh coriander x 5 sprigs \nGround coriander x 1 tbs \nGround fenugreek x 1 tbs \nGround turmeric x 1 tsp \nPomegranate seeds x 3 tbs \nSalt\, pepper\, olive or veg oil x 3 tbs. \nRecipe \nThis recipe will require the use of a food processor or old-fashioned meat mincer. \nPeel the aubergines from four sides\, and then slice them lengthways into thin slices. Fry in the hot frying pan with a little oil. Apply a light dusting of salt and set aside. \nMake sure the food processor or meat mincer are totally clean and dry; blitz the walnuts to the powder\, add the coriander leaves (separate them from the stalks)\, crushed garlic and blitz until the paste is formed. \nEmpty paste into the bowl and add the Korma curry mix. Mix well\, add salt and pepper to taste. Add enough lukewarm boiled water to make the paste easy to spread. \nSpread the paste over one side of the fried aubergine slice and roll each slice up. \nArrange the rolls on the plate and sprinkle with some pomegranate seeds. \nElena suggests preparing walnut paste in advance of the class to save time for the demonstration of other dishes. \nTo make the walnut paste\, you will require a food processor or electric mincer. Separate coriander leaves from the stalks\, peel the garlic and chop it or use the garlic crusher. Put the walnuts\, garlic and coriander in the food processor\, blend or mince it well\, add dry spices\, salt\, pepper and set aside. \nPlease follow this link to watch a video of how to make the walnut paste and how to cut and fry the aubergines\, \nhttps://youtu.be/Oyd-YCjOZI8 \nRegarding spices\, Elena suggests using Mild Korma spice mix instead of the traditional khmeli-suneli. \n  \nhttps://www.lenacooksyoueat.com/gallery URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/online-cooking-class-of-authentic-georgian-cuisine-with-elena-riddle/ LOCATION:ONLINE CATEGORIES:Health and wellbeing,Masterclass END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201213T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201213T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20201116T162118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T163704Z UID:8534-1607886000-1607891400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]CamRuSS Pre-Christmas Social Gathering[:ru]Предрождественская встреча КемРуСС[:] DESCRIPTION:You are all very welcome to take part and join us with a glass of your favourite drink and snacks to celebrate the upcoming festive season! \nRegardless of whether or not you speak Russian\, are a member of CamRuSS\, or only thinking of joining\, you are welcome to join us for our very merry meeting! \nThe idea is to keep up our usual spirit of friendship\, camaraderie\, and mutual support\, albeit online this year.\nWe are open to offers of help and any suggestions as to how to make this evening warm\, entertaining and memorable despite the limitations of the online format. You can see photos from our last year’s celebration here. \nAt the moment\, we plan a quiz\, a few toasts\, music\, and singing. As always\, we are looking for volunteers to play music and sing\, tell jokes and propose toasts! \nWe look forward to seeing your happy faces and shining smiles on 13th December. \nWHEN: Sunday\, 13 December\, 19:00\nWHERE: Zoom \nLANGUAGE: Russian and English \nPlease register in advance. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\nPlease email Tanya Yurasova to info@camruss.com with any ideas and questions. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/camruss-pre-christmas-social-gathering-sunday-13-december-1900/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201128T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20201009T225151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T172212Z UID:8354-1606554000-1607288400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Cambridge Russian Winter Course 2020 Online[:ru]Кембриджский зимний курс русского языка онлайн[:] DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that\, by popular demand\, we have decided to re-run our online Russian course that took place at the end of August 2020. \nThis course is short and spread out\, to avoid both the physical and psychological strain of computer work. A major advantage is that you will be able to enjoy the online lessons without having to travel or commute\, and you can join us from any ‘corner’ of the globe. \nWe shall follow our long-established tradition of daily themes\, interactive teaching groups formed according to the students’ levels of Russian\, a considerate and flexible individual approach\, and a supportive and inspirational atmosphere that we aspire to create online. \nSTUDENTS OF ANY LEVEL OF RUSSIAN ARE MOST WELCOME! \nThe Online Cambridge Russian Course will comprise four morning sessions (on two consecutive weekends) and an extra-curricular evening programme of four additional 1.5 hour slots: \nSaturday 28th November – Sunday 29th November\n& Saturday 5th December – Sunday 6th December \nTimetable (on 28th Nov\, 29th Nov\, 5th Dec\, 6th Dec)\n10:00 – 10:50 – Lesson 1\n11:10 – 12:00 – Lesson 2\n12:20 – 13:10 – Lesson 3\n—\nNEW: Optional Phonetics Club in the afternoon (provisionally 15:30-16:00)\n“Learn to speak Russian without an accent”\, using Russian classical poetry and folk songs\n—\n19:30 – 21:00 – Evening Programme (which will include a talk\, a short film and discussion\, and an interactive quiz). \nOur teachers are: Anna Nerukh\, Elena McKain\, Marina Burrell\, Ellina Konovalova\, Vera Grantham\, Ioulia Ignatievskaia\, and Tanya Yurasova \nThe online teaching platform to be used is Zoom: https://zoom.us/download\nZoom tutorial: https://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Zoom_what_students_need_to_know \nExtra Zoom training will be offered to those who are less familiar with it (let us know in the enrolment form).\n \nPARTICIPANTS: We warmly welcome anyone aged 15+\, including those in the middle of their A-levels and those starting or doing a university course linked to Russian history\, politics\, literature or art. There is no upper age limit! \nCOURSE DETAILS: \n\n12 hours of language tuition in small groups\, with a strong emphasis on the linguistic component: speaking and listening\, reading\, writing and grammar – all in a fun and creative way.\nMuch emphasis on interaction\, group work\, role-play and discussions.\nEnrich your vocabulary\, learn idioms\, brush up your grammar\, immerse yourself in conversation and improve pronunciation.\nAll levels – from Beginners to Fluent\, based on an initial assessment test.\nTutors are all native speakers – experienced\, knowledgeable\, enthusiastic and considerate.\n\nFEE: £120\n15% discount for students in full-time education: £102 \nBOOKING:\n1. Please fill in the following online enrolment form: https://forms.gle/K347EW5kZsEpvgWa8 as soon as you can. \n2. You will be asked to kindly transfer the full payment at least three weeks in advance (which includes a non-refundable deposit of £50)\, i.e. by 7th November the latest. \nWITH ANY QUERIES please contact Tanya Yurasova on: tyurasova@gmail.com or 0781 510 1481. For more details please visit: https://tancam.uk/russian-course \nPlease note that places are allocated on the first come – first served basis. The number of participants is limited by the size of the virtual classes and the number of available teachers\, so it is advisable to book as early as possible. \nWe look forward to hearing from you soon! URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/online-cambridge-russian-course/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201113T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201113T210000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20201026T113605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T112738Z UID:8489-1605294000-1605301200@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]CamRuSS Art Sale[:ru]Онлайн Аукцион произведений искусства КемРуСС[:] DESCRIPTION:CamRuSS Art Sale \nWe would like to invite you to the CamRuSS Online Art Sale/ Auction that will take place on Friday\, 13 November at 19:00 via Zoom. \nDuring lockdown many friends and members of CamRuSS turned to their hobbies\, of which arts and crafts were very prominent. We will be offering about 20 pieces that have been created during or before lockdown by these artists. Some of them have a professional background in art\, others have been enjoying art as a hobby for quite a number of years. They all have kindly donated their works to raise funds for CamRuSS and we are very grateful to them. \nThis is a wonderful opportunity to discover our members’ talents and acquire original artwork to brighten up your homes or as a present to your friends for this forthcoming Christmas. We sincerely hope that you will find something that you like in our small art collection. \nIt has been a challenging time for everybody lately. Nonetheless\, our society is not only adjusting to the new ways of operating but with your invaluable support\, we will be able to grow and develop\, bringing you more interesting talks and events in the future. \nOur ART AUCTION is LIVE! You can start submitting your bids via this easy to use electronic platform https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/camrussartsale \nPlease register your account first to submit your bid with your email address. \nYou can also see our Online Art Sale Catalogue here\, \n \n \n \n \n Loading...\n \n \n \n \n \n Taking too long?\n \n \n \n Reload document \n |\n \n Open in new tab \n \n \n \n Download \nAll proceeds from the auction will go towards supporting our activities at CamRuSS. \nWHEN: Friday\, 13 November\, 19:00\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: Russian and English\nTICKETS: Free \nPlease register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcocOyorjosHNz5TZRwqtIFTluCloErxw3W \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nLooking forward to seeing you at this event\, \nCamRuSS URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/camruss-art-sale/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Art/History,Culture,Meeting,Social festival END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201106T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201106T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200211T194303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201109T210148Z UID:7627-1604689200-1604694600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Member of the Family or Barbarian at the Gate? Russia and the West by Sir Tony Brenton[:ru]Член семьи или варвар у ворот? Россия и Запад - сэр Тони Брентон[:] DESCRIPTION:Russian bear \nThroughout its history Russia has oscillated on the edge of Europe\, from being an insider (as under Peter and Catherine) to being a clear outsider (as under Communism). At the end of the Cold War Gorbachev set Russia on course to become part of a “Common European Home”. But relations are now\, once again\, icy. Sir Tony Brenton looks at what has gone wrong\, and where we might be going. \nSir Tony Brenton \nSIR TONY BRENTON KCMG worked for 30 years for the Foreign Office. \nHe first learnt Arabic and spent three years in Cairo working on the Middle East Dispute. \nFrom 1980-1989 he handled European matters in London and in Brussels\, working on energy issues and the birth of European environment policy. Back in London he ran UN issues in the Foreign Office and took charge of preparation for the 1992 ‘Earth Summit’\, which achieved the first global agreement on Climate Change. \nAfter a year at Harvard (writing a book about international environment policy – ‘The Greening of Machiavelli’)\, he learnt Russian and spent 1994-1998 in Moscow dealing with Russian economic reform. \nAfter a further period in London on UN matters (including the establishment of the International Criminal Court)\, he was posted in 2001 to Washington dealing with the consequences of 9/11\, the Afghanistan war and the Iraq war. \nIn 2004 he was posted to Moscow as Ambassador where he managed Britain’s relations with Russia during a turbulent period. \nHe was awarded a KCMG in 2007. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College in 2009. \nSir Tony Brenton is a patron of the Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society. \nTony Brenton has generously shared with us his latest paper entitled “What Do We Do About Russia.” You can view or download it here\, \n \n \n \n \n \n Loading...\n \n \n \n \n \n Taking too long?\n \n \n \n Reload document \n |\n \n Open in new tab \n \n \n \n Download \n  \n  URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/member-of-the-family-or-barbarian-at-the-gate-russia-and-the-west/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Meeting,Politics,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201022T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201022T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20201005T212441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201023T104106Z UID:8307-1603393200-1603398600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Russian Poetry of the Second World War"\, a talk by Dr Maria Bloshteyn followed by Q&As[:ru]"Русская поэзия Великой Отечественной войны"\, лектор д-р Мария Блоштейн.[:] DESCRIPTION:The canon of Russian World War II poetry has continued unchallenged for 75 years after the victory over Nazi Germany.  What were the reasons for the enormous output of war poems in the Soviet Union during WWII?  Which poets and poems continue to be excluded from Russian poetry anthologies of the Great Patriotic War?  We will look at some specific examples of excluded poets and their poems from a new bilingual anthology of Russian WWII poetry Russia is Burning (published by Smokestack Books). \nMaria Bloshteyn was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and emigrated to Canada when she was nine years old. She received her PhD from Toronto’s York University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University\, where she examined Dostoevsky’s impact on American literature and culture. She is the author of The Making of a Counter-Culture Icon: Henry Miller’s Dostoevsky (2007) and the translator of Alexander Galich’s Dress Rehearsal (2009) and Anton Chekhov’s The Prank (2015). Her translations have also appeared in a number of journals and anthologies\, including The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Penguin Classics\, 2015).\n*****************************************************************************\nHere you can see the PRESENTATION with the recited poems. \nThe bilingual book of poetry can be purchased from the publisher Smockestack Books or from various bookshops: Blackwell’s (Heffers)\, Waterstones\, Poetry Book Society \, or amazon.\nYou can read two book reviews in Literary Review (by Robert Chandler) and in The Postil (by N. Dass).\n***************************************************************************** \nWHEN: Thursday\, 22 October\, 19:00 GST\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: English (with some poems being read in Russian).\nTickets: FREE* \nPlease register in advance for this meeting.\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n* While there is no charge for our online events\, CamRuSS would welcome any donations towards the support of our volunteers’ efforts in bringing more speakers and online events during the current social distancing time.\n*Suggested donations – adults £10\, CamRuSS members\, OAPs\, students – £5.\nYou can send your donations by a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nCambridge Russian-Speaking Society\, NATWEST Bank\,\nSort code: 60-11-30 Account: 18120466.\n \n*****************************************************************************\nAbout the book.\nThe Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory. Between the German invasion in June 1941 and the liberation of Berlin in May 1945\, over 26 million Soviet civilians\, servicemen and women were killed fighting the Nazis. The war also occupies a special place in the history of Russian poetry. For Anna Akhmatova the Red Army was defending the Russian language as well as Russian soil (‘we will defend you\, Russian speech’). Poems written by Red Army soldiers were published in newspapers and broadcast on the radio. Alexei Surkov’s ‘In the Dugout’ and Konstantin Simonov’s ‘Wait for Me’ became well-known as popular songs. \nPublished to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the War\, Russia is Burning brings together for the first time in any language poems written by Soviet soldiers on the front-line and civilians in the Leningrad blockade\, by émigré poets\, by prisoners of war and Gulag prisoners\, by poets who wrote ‘for the drawer’ and by later writers who tried to understand the war and its long-term effects on Russian society.\nIncluding poems by Boris Slutsky\, Anna Akhmatova\, Boris Pasternak\, Olga Berggoltz\, Alexander Tvardovsky\, Samuel Marshak\, Irina Bem\, Evgeny Vinokurov\, Vsevolod Nekrasov\, Bulat Okudzhava\, Vladimir Vysotsky and Ilya Ehrenburg\, Russia is Burning is stunning testimony to the power of poetry to resist Fascism and a reminder of the extraordinary heroism and endurance of the Soviet people in the war against Nazi Germany. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/russian-poetry-of-the-second-world-war-a-talk-by-dr-maria-bloshteyn-followed-by-qas/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Art/History,Culture,Literature,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200918T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200918T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200531T153145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200918T142814Z UID:7964-1600455600-1600461000@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]NEW DATE. Operation Barbarossa: The turning point of WWII- a talk by Dr John Barber with Q&As[:ru]НОВАЯ ДАТА ЛЕКЦИИ. "Операция Барбаросса: Переломный момент Второй мировой войны" - лекция доктора исторических наук Джона Барбера с последующим обсуждением.[:] DESCRIPTION:Operation Barbarossa \nOperation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union\, which started on Sunday\, 22 June 1941\, during World War II. The operation put into action Nazi Germany’s ideological goal of conquering the western Soviet Union so as to repopulate it with Germans. The German Master Plan for the East (Generalplan Ost\, GPO) aimed to use some of the conquered as slave labour for the Axis war effort\, to acquire the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories\, and eventually to annihilate the Slavic peoples and create Lebensraum\, geopolitical goal for Germany. \nThe Generalplan Ost\, or Master Plan for the East\, was the Nazi German government’s plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale\, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe by Germans. It was to be undertaken in territories occupied by Germany during World War II. The plan was attempted during the war\, resulting indirectly and directly in millions of deaths of ethnic Slavs by shootings\, starvation\, disease\, or extermination through labor. But its full implementation was not considered practicable during the major military operations\, and was prevented by Germany’s defeat. \nThe program operational guidelines were based on the policy of Lebensraum designed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in fulfillment of the Drang nach Osten (drive to the East) ideology of German expansionism. As such\, it was intended to be a part of the New Order in Europe. \nThe Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Moscow began in Sept/Oct 1941 because the Operation Barbarossa\, Hitler’s Blitzkrieg\, has failed. The real turning point is December 1941 when the Germans were defeated at Moscow\, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and Hitler declared war on the USA. From that time it really was a world war: GB\, USSR & USA vs Germany\, Italy and Japan. \nWHEN: Friday\, 18 September 2020 at 19:00\nWHERE: Zoom meeting Meeting ID: 829 2665 3849 \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkde-uqzgiHt1GKuprLDYKzrQtx-87tcvF \nLANGUAGE: English\nTICKETS: free* \nDr John Barber \nDr John Barber is a historian of Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods at King’s College\, Cambridge. His main interests are in social and political history. The USSR in World War II has been the main focus of John’s research in recent years\, particularly the siege of Leningrad. John speaks Russian and shares a strong interest in Russian language and culture. \nJohn Barber is an Honorary Adviser to the Board of Trustees and has been an active supporter of CamRuSS from its very beginning\, while helping with organising events and promoting CamRuSS activities among academic circles. John co-organised the series of talks accompanying “Elena Marttila: Art and Endurance in the Siege of Leningrad” in 2017. \nPlease find a link to John’s article about Stalin as a Soviet War Leader in 1941: Myths and Realities. \n*********************************** \n* While there is no charge for this lecture we would welcome any donation you would like to make towards support of our efforts in bringing more speakers and lectures online during the lock down and social distancing time. Suggested donation £5. \nYou can send your donation by a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nCambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30\nAccount: 18120466 \nPlease email camruss@camruss.com if you have any questions. \n************************************\nHow to join the meeting. Please register IN ADVANCE for this meeting by following this link. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/operation-barbarossa-the-turning-point-of-wwii-a-talk-by-dr-john-barber-with-qas/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Art/History,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200822T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200830T193000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200706T183817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200817T175418Z UID:8194-1598090400-1598815800@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Cambridge Russian Summer Course 2020 on Zoom[:ru]Кембриджский летний курс русского языка 2020 - в Зуме[:] DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: This course is nearly fully booked – we currently only welcome applications from intermediate level students.\nEven though this year we are facing rather unusual circumstances\, we are delighted to announce that we shall not completely abandon the idea of a Russian Summer Course in August 2020. In order to minimise any risks\, we have decided to run it online! \nThis summer course will be shorter and more spread out\, to avoid both the physical and psychological strain of computer work. A major advantage is that you will be able to enjoy the online lessons from the comfort of your own home (or a holiday destination)\, and you will be able to join us from any ‘corner’ of the globe. \nAs always\, we shall follow our long-established tradition of daily themes\, interactive teaching groups formed according to the students’ levels of Russian\, a considerate and flexible individual approach\, and supportive and inspirational atmosphere that we shall aspire to create online! \nStudents of any level of Russian are most welcome\, and at the moment we particularly welcome beginners and near-beginners! \nThe virtual Cambridge Russian Summer – 2020  will comprise four mornings (on two consecutive weekends) and four additional hours of extra-curricular evening programme: \nSaturday 22nd August – Sunday 23rd August \n& Saturday 29th August – Sunday 30th August \nTimetable (on 22nd\, 23rd\, 29th\, 30th August)\n10:00 – 10:45 – Lesson 1\n11:00 – 11:45 – Lesson 2\n12:00 – 12:45 – Lesson 3\n—\n19:30 – 20:30 – Evening Programme (which will include a talk\, a short film and discussion\, and an interactive quiz). \nThe online teaching platform to be used is Zoom. \nZoom tutorial.   \nPARTICIPANTS: We warmly welcome anyone aged 15+\, including those in the middle of their A-levels and those starting or doing a university course linked to Russian history\, politics\, literature or art. There is no upper age limit! \nCOURSE DETAILS: \n\n12 hours of language tuition in small groups\, with a strong emphasis on the linguistic component: speaking and listening\, reading\, writing and grammar – all in a fun and creative way.\nMuch emphasis on interaction\, group work\, role-play and discussions.\nEnrich your vocabulary\, learn idioms\, brush up your grammar\, immerse yourself in conversation and improve pronunciation.\nAll levels – from Beginners to Fluent\, based on an initial assessment test.\nTutors are all native speakers – experienced\, knowledgeable\, enthusiastic and considerate.\n\nFEE: £120\n15% discount for students under 25 in full-time education: £102 \nBOOKING: \n\nPlease fill in the following online enrolment form as soon as you can\, as we really need to know the numbers in order to start planning.\nYou will be asked to kindly transfer the full payment at least one month in advance (which includes a non-refundable deposit of £50).\n\nWITH ANY QUERIES please contact Tanya Yurasova on:\ntyurasova@gmail.com or 0781 510 1481. \nPlease note that places are allocated on the first come – first served basis. The number of participants is limited by the size of the virtual classes and the number of available teachers\, so it is advisable to book as early as possible. \nWe look forward to hearing from you soon! \n\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/cambridge-russian-summer-course-2020-online/ CATEGORIES:Language END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200716T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200716T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200624T081510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200713T042254Z UID:8149-1594926000-1594931400@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]"Fairytale Realism. Russian Folklore in Art". Pre-recorded Talk and Q&As with Andrei Borovsky. NB: in Russian![:ru]Андрей Боровский. СКАЗОЧНЫЙ РЕАЛИЗМ. ХУДОЖНИКИ РУССКОЙ СКАЗКИ.[:] DESCRIPTION:The fabulous images of Viktor Vasnetsov\, Ivan Bilibin\, Elena Polenova\, Boris Zvorykin became the main symbols of the national identity of the generation\, personifying the search for the ideal “fairy-tale Russia” in the era of revolutions and changes. How did Russian artists at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries create the figurative world of the Russian fairy tale\, with what picture did the fairy tale genre begin\, and why was it not there before?\nHow did artists “dress” fairy-tale heroes – either striving for the authenticity of hoary antiquity\, or inventing fashionable outfits in the style of “art nouveau”? What are the secrets of creating a “fabulous reality”\, which we still believe? \nThe lecture (in Russian!) is available for viewing IN ADVANCE using the link provided by Andrei\, from 7th to 16th of July\, inclusive. The lecture was recorded with the support of the First Museum of Slavic Mythology\, Tomsk in March 2020. \nWHAT: Q&As with Andrei Borovsky. Please watch his pre-recorded lecture in advance.\nWHEN: Thursday\, 16 July\, 7pm\nWHERE: Zoom\nLANGUAGE: talk & Q&As in Russian only\nTICKETS: free* \n \nAndrei Borovsky – art critic\, public lecturer. Member of the international association of art historians AIS. He worked and collaborated with the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance\, the State Historical Museum\, the State Tretyakov Gallery\, the Museum of Russian Impressionism and others. Permanent expert on the Rules of Life program of the Culture TV channel. Member of cultural and educational projects in Moscow\, St. Petersburg\, London. \nAndrei Borovsky’s channel on YouTube. \nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n* While there is no charge for this lecture we would welcome any donation you would like to make towards support of our efforts in bringing more speakers and lectures online during the lock down and social distancing time. Suggested donation £5.\nYou can send your donation by a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nCambridge Russian-Speaking Society.\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30\, Account: 18120466 \nPlease email camruss@camruss.com if you have any questions. \n  URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/russian-%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b4%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b9-%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b8%d0%b9-%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%b7%d0%be%d1%87%d0%bd%d1%8b%d0%b9-%d1%80%d0%b5%d0%b0%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc/ LOCATION:Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200703T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200703T190000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200630T221847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200701T114711Z UID:8176-1593799200-1593802800@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Russian-English Conversation on Zoom[:ru]Русско-английская разговорная группа в Зуме[:] DESCRIPTION:The idea is to provide members of CamRuSS and local subscribers to CamRuSS our newsletter with an additional opportunity to practise and hone their conversational skills in either English or Russian and help each other. It is free of charge during the period social distancing (spring – summer 2020). \n\nCurrently runs every Friday early in the evening for one hour\, on Zoom (please check our electronic newsletters and/or social media for the starting time).\nThe first meeting took place on Friday 8th May 2020.\nIf you wish to join\, please email us on info@camruss.com. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/russian-english-conversation-on-zoom-7/ CATEGORIES:Language END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200702T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200702T203000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200610T083645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200613T193503Z UID:8062-1593716400-1593721800@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]Lenin’s Ideas on Revolution: Are they Relevant Today? by Dr David Lane[:ru]"Уместны ли сегодня революционные идеи Ленина?"\, лекция доктора исторических наук Дэвида Лейна[:] DESCRIPTION:Lenin. Collage by Timur Alexander \nVladimir Il’ich Ulyanov (Lenin) was born in Simbirsk\, Russia. He became the leader of the Soviet government of Russia until his death in 1924. On the 150th anniversary of his birth (22 April 1870) we consider the strategy which led to the overthrow of the Provisional Government in October 1917. Consequently\, his approach to revolution has been adopted by many communist parties after his death and has led to success in many countries\, notably China\, but failed in the West. David Lane will consider his theoretical and practical strategy\, its criticisms and its relevance to current conditions. \n  \nDavid Lane is an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College\, Cambridge University\, UK\, and previously was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. \nDavid Lane \nDavid was educated at the Universities of Birmingham and Oxford (Nuffield College) and has taught at the Universities of Birmingham\, where he was Professor of Sociology\, and at Essex University. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell\, Odense\, Harvard\, Sabanci (Istanbul)\, Graz\, the Kennan Institute (Washington DC). He has visited and lectured at many universities and research institutes in the countries of the former USSR and eastern and central Europe China and Japan. \nDavid has published widely on state socialist societies\, the USSR\, Marxism\, elites\, class and social stratification; his current research focuses on transformation\, globalization\, ‘varieties of capitalism’\, the enlargement of the European Union and the formation of the Eurasian Union. \nWHEN: Thursday\, 2 July 2020\, 19:00\nWHERE: Zoom \nLANGUAGE: English\nTICKETS: free * \nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n* While there is no charge for this lecture we would welcome any donation you would like to make towards support of our efforts in bringing more speakers and lectures online during the lock down and social distancing time. Suggested donation £5. \nYou can send your donation by a direct bank transfer (BACS) to the following account:\nCambridge Russian-Speaking Society\nNATWEST Bank\, Sort code: 60-11-30\nAccount: 18120466 \nPlease email camruss@camruss.com if you have any questions. URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/lenins-ideas-on-revolution-are-they-relevant-today-by-david-lane/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Art/History,Talk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200627T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200627T210000 DTSTAMP:20260615T133452 CREATED:20200615T233441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T230628Z UID:8106-1593284400-1593291600@camruss.com SUMMARY:[:en]'The White Nights': Evening of Songs & Music on Zoom[:ru]Вечер песни "Белые ночи" в Зуме[:] DESCRIPTION:For the first time ever in the history of CamRuSS\, our White Nights Party will take place online! However\, this won’t stop us from enjoying the heartwarming tunes and the voices of our friends. \nTake a glass of refreshing drink and make yourself comfortable in your own garden (weather permitting) or by the window at home\, get immersed in the world of songs and  music\, and feel the warmth and closeness of others\, despite the physical distance. \nIf you would like to sing a few songs for us and play the guitar or another musical instrument\, or just sing solo\, please get in touch via email:  info@camruss.com. We look forward to hearing from you\, and seeing you on Saturday in Zoom! \nZoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86561673251?pwd=UnI4VFk2Qm0yUTF2OU1ndjRBdy9aUT09 \nMeeting ID: 865 6167 3251\nPassword: 323767 \n \nPhotos of the “Virtual White Nights – 2020”\nVideo of the evening\nWords of the songs adapted by Robin Spratt to the current situation:\nSong – When You Self-Isolate\nAnthem – The Guest Who Was Not Invited URL:https://camruss.com/en/events/the-white-nights-evening-of-songs-music-on-zoom/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR