The Gallery ‘Dom Nashchokina’ opens the retrospective exhibition ‘Provincial Pictures’ by the renowned artist Vladimir Lyubarov. Following the traditions of Russian popular prints Lyubarov creates his own world, his own environment full of true and fancy stories.

The long-awaited cartoon ‘Prince Vladimir’ will be screened in February.

The Academic Orchestra of Dmitry Shostakovitch St.-Petersburg Philharmonics conducted by the People’ Artists of the USSR Yuri Temirkanov goes on tour to Germany today. It is the first European tour of the Orchestra this year.

Memorial evening of the prominent Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovitch has been held in New York. It was in New York where the famous anti-fascist Seventh Symphony was heard for the first time in summer 1942.

Museums of the Moscow Kremlin display their collections in Russia and abroad. At the exhibition of 2003 in Bonn and Berlin specialists of the Dramstadt University proposed to make a short movie that would tell of the Kremlin history.

On January 28 it will be ten years since the death of Josef Brodsky. It is a sad date in Russian history: on the same day Peter the Great and Dostoevsky died, and the next day Alexander Pushkin passed away.

For the first time the city of Krasnodar hosts a photo exhibition of the GEO magazine. The exposition titled “Undiscovered World: the Earth” will be accompanied with ethnic music that has been selected specially for the project by Artemy Troitsky, a well-known Russian music critic.

An exhibition of rare French engravings of the 17th -19th cc opens today in Yekaterinburg. The exposition has been collected by Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts.

The prominent Russian poet, singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky would have been 68 years old today.

The Russians celebrate the Day of St. Tatiana on January 25. For over 250 years it has been celebrated as Students’ Day in Russia, however officially it is celebrated for the second time only.