Her fate is unique – having lived a long life, Elena Gnesina was always in the thick of events and attracted bright people to her – at the conservatory she was friends with Rachmaninov and Scriabin, was friends with Lunacharsky, and among her students were Oborin, Khachaturian, Rozhdestvensky, Khrennikov, and Svetlanov. She managed the almost impossible – together with her sisters to build a huge musical empire, which is still flourishing, bearing the name of its founders. Elena Gnesina was, without exaggeration, one of the most influential cultural figures of the Soviet period.
A film about the play “Turandot” at the S.V. Obraztsov Puppet Theater. How are Carlo Gozzi’s Commedia dell’arte, the circus on the water in Irkutsk and China related? Why do the puppets in this performance change their masks and travel exclusively by boat? Boris Konstantinov, the director of the play, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, will tell about this.
“Here and now” is the formula for live TV. This is how only real professionals work, those who know how to subordinate their time, their nerves, and their entire lives to this fleeting period of time that cannot be rewound or repeated.
The story of the chair is Sinking. He has been living in this world for more than 100 years, he has withstood all the hardships of time. His past is a continuous lacuna, but now this old rickety chair is on the threshold of a new life. However, his future is still uncertain. Into whose hands will he fall, with whom will he continue his long life? The fate of the chair will be decided at the last moment.
This story is about a tiled stove that has already forgotten what it looked like in its prime. Faithfully, the furnace served people, overgrown with layers of paint year after year. Now she has to regain her original appearance. The viewer will see not only all the stages of the furnace’s transformation, but also, together with other heroes of the story, they will be engaged in attribution of this work of art, visit the tile workshop and get acquainted with museum stove rarities.
The history of the old Soviet radio. One of the most democratic models of the middle of the last century, the Record–53M, has been gathering dust in the attic for many years among the same rusty witnesses of the past. And there was almost no chance of this old thing ever seeing the white light again. And suddenly – a lucky ticket! There are months of recovery ahead, and then an introduction to the world in which our heroine still needs to find a place.
A door that has a name. Vasily’s fate could have been tragic if it hadn’t been for the good people he met along the way. How many locks did the old door named Vasily manage to remove over the years of service, and how did she manage to return home to the studio of the famous abstract painter Vasily Kandinsky? About the misadventures and adventures of an old thing that has its own name and its own dignity.
“The Nutcracker”… everyone has their own associations with this word. For most, this is a fairy tale by E.T. A. Hoffman, in which a nondescript wooden toy turns into a handsome prince. Someone will remember the ballet of the same name based on the music of P.I. Tchaikovsky. And for the viewers of the Rossiya – Kultura TV channel, The Nutcracker has been an international television competition for young Musicians for many years now.
