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Essential
Visual Arts
From Demna Gvasalia's powerful Balenciaga show to the demise of Russian artists and oligarch collectors, the invasion of Ukraine challenges the art world
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Tried and Tested
Opera
The Russian secret service officer poisoned in his adopted home of London is at the heart of a new opera inspired by his career, marriage and assassination
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We love
Classical Music
Russian musicians are to the fore in this power-packed programme featuring the 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition prizewinner
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Essential
Classical Music
The impressive Labèque sisters are the piano soloists in a new double concerto
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Visual Arts
Through propaganda, photos, postcards and more, the Red Star Over Russia Tate Modern exhibition paints a vivid picture of Russia’s complex Soviet era while unearthing hidden gems
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Tried and Tested
Visual Arts
Melancholia, the Soviet Union and failed utopias - this Ilya and Emilia Kabakov exhibition is a majestic monument to the forgotten
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In The Know
Unity, the centenary of the Russian Revolution, and religious works come with ways to get up close and personal to the music
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We love
Classical Music
Riots broke out when The Rite of Spring was first performed, and it can still startle with its raw savagery
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We love
Classical Music
Music overpowers ideology in Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, while Beethoven reflects his own times in his 5th Piano Concerto
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In The Know
He transformed his players and the capital's tastes. Now the Russian-born conductor is ready to party – the classical music way. By Claudia Pritchard
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Tried and Tested
Cinema
New Art for a New World brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life in this entrancing art historical documentary
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Essential
Visual Arts
The birth and death of avant-garde. Russian Royal Academy exhibition charts art born of revolution - and its downfall
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Tried and Tested
Theatre
This adaptation of Erdman's The Suicide is a rambunctious, if overly-ambitious, critique of austerity Britain
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Tried and Tested
Visual Arts
'For the most part, stunning', Tom Stewart reviews Russia and the Arts at the National Portrait Gallery
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Classical Music
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor makes his conducting debut with the Britten Sinfonia, and Elena Langer unveils a new work
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Tried and Tested
Cinema
Chad Gracia's conspiracy documentary The Russian Woodpecker won the Grand Jury Prize in its category at Sundance – we can see why.
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Tried and Tested
Visual Arts
Science Museum exhibition blasts off into outer space with a major exhibition on the pioneering Russian cosmonauts
