Publications

Sergey Vinogradov Russian Museum. Photo credit: artchive.ru The Russian Museum has perhaps the most extensive experience in establishing the online museum space in Russia. We talked on peculiar features of this work with Olga Babina, Deputy Director of the Russian Museum for Registration, Preservation and Restoration of Museum Values and one of the speakers at the 14th Assembly of the Russkiy Mir. Representatives of leading Russia’s universities and museums, as well as experts and Russian compatriots from Sweden, Argentina and Australia will also take part in the discussion. This St. Petersburg...

Editor's office of the Russkiy Mir Portal Photo credit: Russian Direct Investment Fund Press service In face of pandemic COVID-19, one of the most important government duties is its prevention and treatment, and above all, vaccine. Sputnik-V is the first vaccine in the world, and it was by Russian scientists from Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. It's worth mentioning that the vaccine is named after the first Soviet space satellite in 1957. Nonetheless the vaccine was criticized by some Western countries, many are interested in its...

Sergey Vinogradov November is the month of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Admirers of his work globally celebrate the 199th anniversary of the Russian classic’s birth and the 140th anniversary of The Brothers Karamazov, his last novel that a lot of people consider to be the writer’s best work. One of the panel discussions at the 14th Assembly of the Russkiy Mir is be dedicated to the modern readers’ perception of Dostoevsky's work and features of his poetic manner, which turned his works into immortal classics. On November 3, scholars, representatives of the writer's museums and the International Dostoevsky Society, member of...

Sergey Vinogradov Dozens of poems, stories and essays have participated in the Russian-Speaking Oceania contest, organized by Unification Russian weekly from Sydney. There were such contests in Australia and New Zealand, but for the first time such a big territory was covered. There are not so much Russian compatriots “from the islands” yet but they are being noticed. Russian-Speaking Oceania contest advertisement /Photo: unification.com.au Creative writing is really important for the Russian community in Australia and New Zealand. Many have...

Vladimir Emelianenko Jerzy Tyts. The photo is provided by the press service of the Russian Military Historical Society especially for the Russkiy Mir Jerzy Tyts, important Polish public figure, has come to Russia with the idea to install in Krakow a monument to Red Army soldiers who saved the mined city from being blown up by the Nazis in 1945. The truth is that the idea seems fantastic - for now. It represents his response to the Institute of National Remembrance (INR) of Poland that got into an argument with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the background of World War II. According to insights of the...

Tamara Skok 150 years ago, on October 22, 1870, Ivan Bunin was born. He was a Russian poet and prose writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, emigrant and one of the most sophisticated and unbiased witnesses of his turbulent time. “Damned Mongols…” The memories that Bunin left of his contemporaries, fellow writers, are not the brightest ones because he approached them with strict creative and human standards. His views became even more rigorous when the Cursed Days began in the history of Russia. There are monstrous...