The onset of the New Year is usually associated with the key phases of the solar cycle: the spring and autumn equinoxes, as well as the winter solstice.

From December 26 to January 13, the best Russian musicians are performing a festive New Year's program in the Rachmaninoff Hall and the Myaskovsky Concert Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

The State Hermitage Museum presents the exhibition «Decorative Minimalism.

Dutch paintings of the Golden Age are provided from the collection of Valeria and Konstantin Mauergauz, one of the largest private collections in Russia with art monuments of the XVI–XVII centuries.

The Moscow State United Museum-Reserve offers the audience a unique opportunity to see the works of Russian decorative and applied art of the XVII-XX centuries from the museum's collection.

Oh, beautiful Moscow, how different it is! For hundreds of years, ancient churches and modern exhibition centers, factories and typical high-rise buildings have been arguing in it.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 8, 1945, May 9 was declared a Victory Day.

The Russian National Museum of Music has provided access to the electronic library "Treasury of Sacred Music".

The large-scale online exhibition is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the main design institution of Russia.

This exhibition is part of Ira Golub's project Urbi et Orbi ("The City and the World").