The Ambassador, the Grand Duke, his Wife and her Lover, a Talk by Sir Tony Brenton, OBE
Trinity Hall Cambridge, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TJ, UK, Cambridge Trinity Hall Cambridge, Trinity Ln, CambridgeThis talk explores a little-known episode in 18th-century diplomacy: the secret correspondence between the future Catherine the Great and the British ambassador to Russia, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, by John Giles Eccard, 1746 At a time … Continue reading
July Rain (1966): Ksenia Golubovich on Marlen Khutsiev’s Masterpiece
ZoomThis year marks the centenary of film director Marlen Khutsiev’s birth. We invite you to celebrate the anniversary of this outstanding figure of Soviet and Russian culture with cultural scholar Ksenia Golubovich, who will speak about one of the director’s … Continue reading
Pure painting: Wassily Kandinsky and the birth of abstraction by Dr Natalia Murray
The Old Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, CB2 1RGWassily Kandinsky by Adolf Elnain, 1925 One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky, who spent most of his life between Munich and Paris and died in 1944 as a French citizen, exploited the evocative interrelation between colour and … Continue reading
Between Frames: The Secrets of Symbols and Memory in Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’ with Ksenia Golubovich
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1974) is a film-essay. How was this film created through Tarkovsky’s new method of “cards” and a kind of deliberate “montage of fragments”? The film quite literally lays siege to our sense of reality and authenticity. … Continue reading
