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• WORLD THEATER DAY IN RUSSIA

  30 March 2022

  World Theater Day has been celebrated since 1961. This is a professional holiday for actors, directors, lighting and sound engineers, make-up artists, theater artists, even cloakroom attendants and ticket collectors. Theater festivals, thematic exhibitions, performances and excursions are held all over the world on the 27th of March. Theatre was brought to Russia by Peter the Great, but did not yet look like a modern theater. During the reign of his daughter, Elizabeth of Rusia, theater became similar to the one we are used to now.

• EXHIBITION-STUDY OF THE OLD BELIEVER CULTURE PRESENTED AT THE MOSCOW MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

  23 March 2022

  An exposition Right of Faith opened at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on the 22nd of March. It is part of the museum’s project Photo/Commentary, dedicated to contemporary Russian photography. The program includes personal exhibitions of authors that use photography to comprehend social processes.

• XXII INTERNATIONAL JAZZ TRIUMPH FESTIVAL OPENED

  16 March 2022

  Jazz Triumph is one of the oldest and most important world-class Russian jazz festivals, founded in 2001. For 22 years, Jazz Triumph has been successfully presenting the greatest jazz musicians of our time to the Russian public. In 2022, concerts and other events will be dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Russian jazz.

• THE ALL-RUSSIAN CULTURAL WEEKEND

  09 March 2022

  The Cultural Weekend event timed to coincide with the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia and International Women's Day, was held throughout the country from the 6th to the 8th of March. Thematic events were prepared by philharmonic societies, concert organizations, circuses and cinema halls.

• AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION MOVING WOMEN HAS OPENED IN KAZAN

  01 March 2022

  On the 19th of February, the collective exhibition Moving Women opened at the Center of Contemporary Culture Smena in Kazan. The exposition, organized with the support of the Swedish Embassy, ​​brought together the works of artists from Sweden, Russia, Spain and England.

• HISTORICAL APPEARANCE OF PRIAM’S TREASURE COLLECTION HAS BEEN RESTORED

  23 February 2022

  The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts has completed the first stage of the study of archaeological objects discovered by Heinrich Schliemann during the excavations of Troy in 1872-1890. For many years, 13 treasures were not shown to the public. For the first time about the Gold of Troy also known as Priam’s Treasure people started talking in 1996, when a sensational exhibition was arranged.

• MONICA BELLUCCI IS TO PRESENT A PERFORMANCE IN MOSCOW AND SAINT-PETERSBURG

  16 February 2022

  In May 2022, Moscow and Saint Petersburg will host for the first time in Russia the premieres of the international project Maria Callas. Memories in Letters. A solo performance by Monica Bellucci will take place on the 27th of May at the Alexandrinsky Theater in Saint-Petersburg and on the 31st of May at the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow.

• THE 21ST SEASON OF THE INTERNATIONAL BALLET FESTIVAL DANCE OPEN IN SAINT-PETERSBURG

  09 February 2022

  From 5 to 15 April, Saint-Petersburg will host the 21st season of the Dance Open International Ballet Festival. The largest choreographic forum in Russia will return to the historical stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre. The festival will be held with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the Committee for Culture of Saint-Petersburg.
  The event will be attended by 10 famous ballet companies and more than 250 artists from Russia, Belgium, Germany, the Principality of Monaco, Spain, Great Britain, the USA, the Netherlands, and Poland.
  

• REGULAR DEPARTURE TOURS 2022

  02 February 2022

  MIR Travel Company is happy to present our Regular Departure Tours 2022, that start soon, in April 2022. The dates of the tours are fixed and guaranteed, and the departures are scheduled every week from April to October - the most pleasant time to visit Russia and the Baltic States.

• MUSEUMS OF RUSSIA JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL #MUSEUMSELFIE CAMPAIGN

  26 January 2022

  On the 19th of January, the international Twitter campaign #MuseumSelfie was held online. On this day, social media users around the world post photos of themselves in museums.
  At the initiative of the Kultura.