This has happened for the first time in 10 years. Russian cinema has raised 12.6 billion rubles this year, or 23.8 percent of the national fund.

The short-list of the national film award in the nomination "The Best Film" is known already.

The Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art will display masterpieces of icon paintings from private collections.

The world premiere timed to the 80th anniversary since the birth of the famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev was held on December 9, 2017.

Art festival "Russian Winter" is presenting the best Russian musicians at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Concert Hall from December 23 to 31.

After the revolution, the artists of Palekh, Kholui and Mstyora - old icon-painting villages - took up lacquer miniature.

A multimedia exhibition of the great seascape artist Ivan Aivazovsky runs in the Lumiere Hall creative centre, Moscow.

Advent is the bright time of waiting for the miracles of Christmas. Spiritual music festival "Advent" kicked off with Masterpieces by Vivaldi and Bach.

December 14 will see a concert of the cycle Musical Thursdays in the Stroganov Palace in the Ballroom of the Stroganov Palace.

The jury has selected the winners of the contest "Russia, the Time of the Young" in the congress center of the Oka hotel in Nizhny Novgorod.