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Russian Circle in Sutton with lectures on Russia's past and present, concerts of live music and Russian arts

Sutton Russian Circle

PROGRAMME FOR OUR 38^th YEAR
2021-2022

• Friday 17 September 2021 at 7pm
  Short talk: White Nights — The Ballet Scene In Saint Petersburg. By Natasha Dissanayake
  LECTURE: Legacies of Nomadism, Nuclear tests, and Nursultan Nazarbaev in the Making of New Kazakhstan. By Dr Bhavna Davé
  
• Friday 15 October 2021 at 7pm
  Short film: “The Yussupov Palace in St. Petersburg”. Parts 1,2
  LECTURE: Ekaterina Dashkova and Sofia Kovalevskaya: Two Remarkable Russian Women. By Ruth Sobel
  
• Friday 19 November 2021 at 7 pm
  Short film: “The Moscow Metro Stations You Must See”
  LECTURE: The Free, Roaring and Dangerous 1990s in Russia: My Personal Experience. By Irina Nekhlyudova
  
• Friday 17 December 2021 at 7pm
  LECTURE: My Life as a Foreign Correspondent’s Wife in Brezhnev’s Moscow. By Margaret Willis.
  RUSSIAN WINTER PARTY. Free raffle.

• Friday 21 January 2022 at 7pm
  Short talk: Leonid Krasin: The “red lord” of Lenin’s’ Government. By Natasha Dissanayake
  LECTURE: Russian Romantic Composers. By Dr Helen Sills
• Friday 18 February 2022 at 7pm
  Short talk: Revolt in Kazakhstan – What was it in Reality?. By Jeff Temple
  LECTURE: Bloomsbury Group: The Russian Influence. By Dr Dilyara Shah
• Friday 18 March 2022 at 7pm
  Two short films: “Riders of North Ossetia” and “Kremlin Riding School”
  LECTURE: Revolutionaries in the Reading Room: The role of Russian political emigres in London in the downfall of the Tsar. By Dr. Robert Henderson, a former Russian Curator at the British Library
• Friday 22 April 2022 at 7pm
  LECTURE: Dickens’s Russia and Russia's Dickens. By Dr. Tony Williams, Associate Editor of “The Dickensian” and former President of the Dickens Fellowship.
  Short talk: "Siberia as seen by a BBC film crew in 1988/89”. By Tania Kinsey
• Friday 20 May 2022 at 7pm
  Short film: “The Yussupov Palace in St. Petersburg”. Parts 3,4.
  LECTURE: Lydia Yavorska: Princess, Freethinker and Star of West End. By Natasha Dissanayake
• Friday 17 June 2022 at 7pm
  LIVE CONCERT: Russian Classical Music. By Yulia Dovgiallo (violin) and James Batty (piano).
  RUSSIAN SUMMER PARTY. Free raffle