Until the 31st of May the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition dedicated to the Mummies of Ancient Egypt, the Art of Immortality. The exposition includes more than 400 exhibits, most of which visitors will see for the first time.
On the 4th of April the new art project was opened in Ivanovo - Tarkovsky.Return to the Motherland, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Tarkovsky. The exhibition features archival photography and audio recordings, as well as lectures by film critics devoted to the director's works.
Platform 9 ¾ appeared at Ladozhsky railway station in Saint-Petersburg. The Ladozhsky railway station in Saint-Petersburg now has its own platform 9¾, which the British writer J.K. Rowling described in her books about Harry Potter.
From the 3rd of December 2022 the exhibition Russian Empire opens in Moscow. It is part of a series of projects that the State Historical Museum launched for its 150th anniversary. The exposition is dedicated to the history of the Russian Empire.
The Mother's Day was celebrated in Russia on November 28, as usually it is celebrated on the last Sunday of November. At the same time, more than 20 countries of the world celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May.
On the 26th of November MIR Travel Company celebrates its 29th anniversary. The company was established in 1992 as soon as the private enterprise was legalized in Russia. Since then, when the team was staffed by only a few people, MIR has been under constant development.
It was announced that as from December 01, 2021 Russia will lift travel restrictions for the visitors of 5 more countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mongolia. These 5 countries will be added to the list of 78 countries whose citizens can already travel to Russia.
In 2021, Russia celebrates the 200th anniversary of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one of the most famous novelists in the world. Many museums in Moscow and St. Petersburg have prepared special cultural projects for this memorable date. On 15 November the inauguration of the Dostoevsky House Museum in Moscow took place as part of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature.
On 05 November, in the capital of the Urals - Yekaterinburg, the Art Gallery of the Yeltsin Center museum opened an exhibition of works by Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall and other representatives of the avant-garde. The exhibition will reproduce the history of the creation of the avant-garde school of art and Suprematism.
From 23 October Russia has lifted travel restrictions for the visitors of 9 more countries: the Bahamas, Iran, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Slovenia, Tunisia, Sweden and Thailand. Please see below a complete list of 78 countries whose citizens can travel to Russia as from 23 October, 2021.
84 years ago the new ruby stars were lit on the towers of the Moscow Kremlin. This event symbolized the final establishment of socialism in the USSR. The first stars appeared over the Kremlin in October 1935. They were installed instead of the two-headed imperial eagles.
On the 9th and 30th of November the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin will host a music festival Tsars and Muses: Opera at the Russian Court. It will be held under the motto Opera for the Glory of the Fatherland! and will introduce visitors to vocal and instrumental music of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th century.
