After the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin stripped St. Petersburg of its status as capital and transferred his government to Moscow. Engulfed by misery, hunger and illness, this proud Tsarist city ...

Influence. Adam Mickiewicz - collage #12. A photograph from the collection of the Museum of Warsaw was used. Author: Matej Kaniewski for Culture.pl Despite the Tsar’s decree in the 1830s forbidding ...

The programming is particularly astute here. The Florestan Trio plays both of Shostakovich’s piano trios, and in between is joined by the soprano Susan Gritton for the Seven Romances on Poems of ...

Had Dmitri Shostakovich never taken a sip from that bottle of brandy his wife failed to hide he may never have composed his “Seven Poems of Alexander Blok.” It was the cellist-pianist-conductor ...

Engulfed by misery, hunger and illness after the Bolshevik Revolution, St Petersburg witnessed the last days of two great Russian poets of the Silver Age: Alexander Blok and Nikolai Gumilev. Alexander ...