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 35th YEAR
2018-2019
2018
- 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
2019
- 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
We meet at 7pm at Friends Meeting House, 10 Cedar Road, Sutton,
SM2 5DA