On Monday 28 June at 6.45pm architect and architectural historian
Anton Glikin, editor of 'The Classical City', opens the evening with a
talk entitled "St. Petersburg's Future: Historicism, Anti-Historicism,
Pseudo-Historicism or Preservation?"
17th February, 19.30.The struggle to preserve Rusia’s historic buildings is unequal and dangerous, fought between concerned citizens and big business against a backdrop of poverty and corruption. MAPS founder and friend of
Sarkisyan, Clementine Cecil, tells the inspiring stories of those who battle to preserve Russia’s heritage. There will be a chance to commemorate David’s memory at a drink before/afterwards.
Pushkin House and The Moscow Architecture Preservation Society present a series of lectures on Russian architecture by experts from Russia, the US and the UK.
16th April 2008
Literary Moscow
Author and translator Rosamund Bartlett takes us on a tour of the apartments, houses and palaces of Russia’s great writers, and the settings of books like War and Peace. This is a fragile legacy for many of these houses are under threat.
