Culture and leisure

More than half of the citizens have never been to a theater, museum or conservatory.

The All-Russian Theater Marathon in the Year of the Theater takes place in all 85 regions of Russia.  It started in January in Vladivostok, will end at the end of 2019 at the most western point of the country - Kaliningrad, and will reach Moscow on 28 June. 

The picture transferred to the Irbit State Museum of Fine Arts, which was considered a copy of the canvas of the Flemish painter of the 16th-17th centuries by Peter Paul Rubens, "The Position in the Coffin", according to preliminary data, turned out to be a true original.

TV host Nikolai Drozdov assessed the list of animals banned for keeping at home approved in Russia.

By September of this year, the program "Cultural standards of schoolchildren" will be included in the educational system of Russian schoolchildren.

Gathering today 3.42 million yuan or $ 497 thousand, the highest-grossing Russian film in China was the sports drama “Moving Up.”  In the fifteen days of hire, the film by Anton Megerdichev accumulated 75.47 million yuan or $ 10.95 million.

Georgia won't legally issue security guarantees for Russian tourists

The museum of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg will hold a series of master classes and lectures for British musicians in 2020 within the framework of the Year of Music of Russia and Great Britain.

The All-Russian Cultural Night event will be held throughout the country on August 24th.

The first edition of the Golden Calf, autographed by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, went under the hammer for 1 million 100 thousand rubles.

According to the Serbian director, in the new version of the novel, the old  woman will kill the main character.

The Russian wife of a Malaysian ex-king, Oksana Voevodina, flew to the capital to judge the participants of the contest “The Beauty of Russia-2019”.

The American creator and screenwriter of the five-series drama series “Chernobyl” Craig Mazin (Craig Mazin) wished good luck to the authors of the Russian version of the movie.

OREANDA-NEWS. In Liechtenstein for the first time there will take place the exhibition of works of the national artist of the USSR, the president of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. It is dated for the 85 anniversary of the master.