Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century (Video)

On Saturday, April 1, the Russian History Museum commemorated the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s birth with an online lecture by Dr. Valeria Z. Nollan. The lecture, "Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century," was presented as part of the Russian History Museum's Second [...]

2023-04-20T13:33:10-04:00April 10th, 2023|Second Saturdays|

Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century

Sergei Rachmaninoff Re-Envisioned for the Twenty-First Century An online lecture by Dr. Valeria Z. Nollan Professor Valeria Z. Nollan will present a lecture based on Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cross Rhythms of the Soul (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), her recently published biography of the [...]

2023-03-20T15:13:37-04:00March 16th, 2023||

Declensions of the Sublime: 200 Years of Russian Art – and Its Incessant Vagaries

Declensions of the Sublime: 200 Years of Russian Art - and Its Incessant Vagaries An online lecture by Dr. Joachim Pissarro Essays on Russian art tend to focus either on the 19th century and the pre-revolutionary period, or on the revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde. Very seldom [...]

2023-02-14T11:53:19-05:00February 14th, 2023||

Forgotten Tales of California: The Russian-American Company and Fort Ross Copy

Forgotten Tales of California: The Russian-American Company and Fort Ross An online lecture by Robin Joy Wellman Chartered under Emperor Paul I, the Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored fur trading venture that established colonies in Alaska and California. In 1812, a company outpost called Colony [...]

2023-02-14T11:00:00-05:00February 14th, 2023||

Forgotten Tales of California: The Russian-American Company and Fort Ross

Forgotten Tales of California: The Russian-American Company and Fort Ross An online lecture by Robin Joy Wellman Chartered under Emperor Paul I, the Russian-American Company was a state-sponsored fur trading venture that established colonies in Alaska and California. In 1812, a company outpost called Colony [...]

2023-02-07T16:23:15-05:00February 6th, 2023||

Russian Folklore: Words Transformed Over Centuries Copy

Russian Folklore: Words Transformed Over Centuries An online lecture by Dr. Sibelan Forrester Russian folklore is naturally intertwined with the environment, history, and politics of Russia and the Soviet Union, and then Russia again, beginning as shared oral stories and wisdom of all layers of [...]

2023-02-06T14:28:16-05:00February 6th, 2023||

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