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Thu 20 November 2008 – 7.00pm
Lecture
The Whig & The Aristocrat: the Unlikely Friendship Between the 6th Duke of Devonshire and Tsar Nicolas I
by Ian Roberts
In association with GB Russia Society
Language: In English
This friendship began during the first visit of Nicholas as Grand Duke to England in 1816. This talk will deal with the main events in the friendship of two persons with very…
Tickets: £5.00
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Sat 22 November 2008 – 11.00am
Tour
Visit to Apsley House
Language: In English
Apsley House, home of the first Duke of Wellington and his descendants for over 200 years, has been known colloquially as “Number One London”, because it was the first house encountered after passing the tollgates at the top of Knightsbridge.
Tickets: £8.00, conc. £6.90 (entrance fee is payable in cash at the venue)
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Tue 25 November 2008 – 7.30pm
Pushkin Club Programme
Guests of Eternity
by Larissa Miller
Language: In Russian with English translation
The Pushkin Club is delighted to welcome back from Moscow Larissa Miller with her translator Richard McKane for the launch reading of her bilingual book “Guests of Eternity”...
Tickets: £5.00, conc. £3.50
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Wed 26 November 2008 – 7.30pm
Lecture-Screening
Ordinary Bolshevism by Evgenyi Tsymbal
Language: In Russian with English subtitles
Documentary | 1999 | Russia | 78 mins | B&W | “Глобус”. The film will be presented by its director, Evgeny Tsymbal.
Russian communism, ‘Bolshevism’, which for seventy years reigned in Russia, is dead. But this spawn…
Tickets: £7.00, conc. £5.00
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