Welcome to SUTTON RUSSIAN CIRCLE

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 35^th YEAR
2018-2019

• Friday 21 September 2018 at 7pm
  Short film: Ivan The Great (Ivan III)
  LECTURE: Pavlovsk – The Imperial Residence Of Beauty And Courage By Natasha Dissanayake
  
• Friday 19 October 2018 at 7pm
  Short talk: Volgograd By Ashley Dickinson
  LECTURE: A Moscow-Trained Architect's Story By Alexander Rakita
  
• Friday 16 November 2018 at 7pm
  Short talk: Abramtsevo Estate: Artists’ Colony Near Moscow By Leslie Dommett
  Live Concert By Russian Pianist Petr Limonov
  
*(Sunday) 9 December 2018 at 3.00 pm Royal Festival Hall
LIVE CONCERT:
Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Piano: Piotr Anderszewski
( see musical outings page ) separate venue and charge
• Friday 21 December 2018 at 7pm
  LECTURE: The Siberian Traveller – Seven Years In Mid-19th Century Urals, Siberia And Kazakhstan By John Massey Stewart
  Russian Winter Party

• Friday 18 January 2019 at 7pm
  Short talk: Lev Yashin: Russian Goalkeeper By Andrew Beddows
  LECTURE: How We Came To Live In Siberia – A Story Of My Family Through The Lens Of The Turbulent History Of 20th Century Russia By Galina Wolf
• Friday 15 February 2019 at 7pm
  Short talk: Journey From Moscow To Yekaterinburg By Marion Brown
  FILM: The Cranes Are Flying
• Friday 15 March 2019 at 7pm
  RUSSIAN QUIZ
  LECTURE: Is Russian Classical Ballet Training Still The Best? And How Different Are Today’s Dancers To Those In The 1970s And 1980s? By Margaret Willis
*(Thursday) 4 April at 7.30 pm Royal Festival Hall LIVE CONCERT: Conductor Yuri Temirkanov, Piano: Denis Matsuev
( see musical outings page ) separate venue and charge
*(Thursday) 11 April at 7.00 pm Special 27th Russian Circle candlelight dinner
At Zizzi Restaurant, 13 High Street, Sutton
• Friday 17 May 2019 at 7pm
  SHORT FILM: Wild Russia Song Of The Volga (2)
  LECTURE: Emperor Nicholas I (1825 – 1855) Autocrat & Gendarme Of Europe By Bob Dommett
• Friday 21 June 2019 at 7pm
  LIVE CONCERT: Russian Classical Music By Oliver Davies & Adrian Bradbury RUSSIAN SUMMER PARTY
  
* (Sunday) 30 June at 1.30 pm
35th Anniversary Garden Party At Natasha’S Garden In Carshalton