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Moscow Spring Festival

The Moscow Spring festival is being held from May 1-11. Twenty-three city fairgrounds, located in each district, feature six periods from Russian history — the Silver Age, the New Economic Policy during the 1920s, Industrialization and the Great Patriotic War, the Thaw, the era of developed socialism, and Perestroika.

May Holidays in Moscow

This year Moscow residents and visitors alike will enjoy an interesting and varied programme of public holidays.

The XIII Moscow Easter Festival

The XIII Moscow Easter Festival — a peak event in the cultural life of Russia and one of the grandest musical events of the year — will take place from April 20th through May 9th 2014 with the support of the Moscow City Government, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.

Legend of the Bolshoi Theatre in Tretyakov Gallery

The first large scale exhibition dedicated to Fyodor Fyodorovskii is a joint venture between the Tretyakov Gallery, the Bolshoi Theatre and the Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum.

Pasternak Museum Near Moscow

The Pasternak House Museum is located in Peredelkino, on the outskirts of Moscow. It is in this house that Boris Pasternak wrote his Nobel Prize-winning novel,  Doctor Zhivago , and also where he died. Pasternak is buried at the cemetery in Peredelkino.

Classical French Art at Arkhangelskoye

Archangelskoye Estate and Museum is hosting an exhibition of French art between now and March 8, 2015. More than 40 paintings from the museum's collections are on display along with works of the decorative and applied arts and rare books of the 17th through 19th centuries.

Best of Russia - 2013 at Winzavod

The Exhibition Best of Russia – 2013 opens on March 26, 2014, at Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art. This year, over 300 photographs by recognized photographers and amateurs from all over the world will be on display at the exhibition.

Expats Recalled with Biting Humor in New Book, 'Lenin Lives Next Door'

If Jane Austen had been an American living in post-Soviet Moscow, she might have made similar observations to those in Jennifer Eremeeva’s “Lenin Lives Next Door.” This entertainingly bitchy comedy of manners describes itself as “creative nonfiction”; it is clever, funny and rude about everyone.

Butter Week Kicks off in Russia: Get Ready for Blinis, Fistfights and Troikas

Nothing in Russia says party like Maslenitsa, or Butter week. It is a week-long carnival that originated in pagan times as a way to mark the end of winter and beginning of spring. This year, the festival kicks off on February 24 to last till the start of the Orthodox Lent.

Photographs of Boris Pasternak on Display in Moscow

February 11 marked the 124th anniversary of the birth of Boris Pasternak, the famed Soviet author best known for his book Doctor Zhivago, which was published abroad after being banned in the Soviet Union.