A new great novel from the author of "The Geographer", "The Gold of Rebellion" and "Fornication"; also historical. The story is about a collector from a million-plus city who seized 140 million rubles. It reads “in Ivanovo style”; “Nevolin’s house is already engulfed in flames, as if on a boyar’s fur coat”; Wow.

All of Venedikt Erofeev, directed by Mark Zakharov THEATER The new performance by guru Mark Zakharov is a significant phenomenon in itself; Moreover, we are talking about material that is not the most typical for Lenkom. On the main stage, for two and a half hours, the best forces of one of the main troupes of the city will perform “Moscow-Petushki” and “Walpurgis Night” by Venedikt Erofeev, combining them with a compilation of stories and letters from the author.

Sun 12/04 British pop of the highest standard returns to Russia CONCERTS Williams's visit to Russia is presented by promoters as one of the main concerts of the year, but taking into account Metallica, this statement is at least controversial - one can think for a long time about how long ago the singer released his last successful album.

From left to right: Igor Kompaniets , Alexey Belyakov , Evgeniy Tikhonovich - their total work experience in the Russian gloss is twice the age of this same gloss Georgy Birger, Afisha: You’ve all been working in glossy magazines for ten years—has the way they write about fashion changed during this time? Alexey Belyakov, deputy editor-in-chief of Allure magazine: The vocabulary has been greatly enriched. I remember very well when I started working at Vogue in 2004.

A gentle, one might say, girlish brand, famous for its sweatshirts with printed faces of toy Kens. Lisa Odinokikh: “In each collection a new line appears - for example, in the new one it will be military, but at the same time romantic. The collection contains various girly stripes, roses, stars, hearts, that's all. When I created the collection, I somehow did not imagine that such a situation would exist in the world.

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut How to Catch a Monster came out similar to the work of his friend Nicolas Winding Refn S Thu 09/04 Student debut of director Gosling CINEMA Almost all the inhabitants have fled from a mirageous, half-flooded area called Lost River, strongly reminiscent of the real Detroit. All that was left was a single mother with the spectacular appearance of Christina Hendricks and two sons and a girl named Rat with her half-dead grandmother.

REPORTING: ALEXEY KISELEV In a mansion near the Trekhgornaya manufactory with the sign “The Artist” there was until recently an unremarkable nightclub, but now they rehearse there in the space of an intimate arena from morning to night. The directors are the Presnyakov brothers, the same ones who enriched modern Russian drama with such powerful sociopolitical works as “Playing the Victim” and “Terrorism”, and who have not shown any signs of life for the last three years.

Retrospective of an undeservedly forgotten figure of the avant-garde EXHIBITIONS Georgy Yakulov was born in Tiflis into an Armenian family, then ended up in Moscow, where he firmly decided to be an artist. He did not study well, was expelled for absenteeism, fought in the Russian-Japanese war, and was wounded. Yakulov was less famous than his other contemporaries, but he was friends, for example, with Konchalovsky, who painted his famous portrait.

Presentation of a new album by one of the main young bands in Russia CONCERTS Pompeya are releasing their third album - “Real” at the end of March, after which they are going on a tour of Russia, in Moscow there will be the last concert of the tour before Yaroslavl and St. Petersburg; however, both a continuation is also expected. The upcoming Moscow concert is another opportunity to prove how much Russian independent music has grown in recent times.

CONCERTS See announcement on the left. / St. Petersburg, “Cosmonaut”, 20.00 ### Sat 04/04, Sun 05/04, Fri 10/04, Fri 17/04, Mon 27/04

Dresses inspired by the Russian avant-garde, demi-season coats, hats and accessories. Alexander Eremenko, co-founder of the brand: “At first I had my own vintage ma- gasin. Making clothes is more interesting than selling them, so this is a natural evolution of the work I was doing before. We work only in Russia and do not want to transfer production to China, this is part of our concept. We use rare fabrics and buy them in small quantities.

The best representatives of guitar music of the early 1990s in all their glory CONCERTS In 1990, two landmark albums of Russian guitar music were released: “Jump-Jump” “Egor and ... [who lost their conscience]” and “Moscow Vacation” by Nick Rock and Roll and “Loli You”.

Wed 01/04 – Sun 12/04 Exhibition of street photography based on the legacy of classics like Cartier-Bresson EXHIBITIONS As part of the street photography festival, the Lumiere Brothers Center will host an exhibition that brings together the works of several artists following the traditions of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and other classics of this movement.

Thu 02/04 - Sun 07/06 “Jesse Alexander. The birth of Formula 1 at the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography Luxury cars, fashionable houses and magnificent guests EXHIBITIONS Formula 1 racing was the most social European event in the 1950s and 1970s. Then they were much more dangerous than today, but the general interest was much more lively and direct.

FRI 10/04 PETERSBURG Anniversary of the St. Petersburg hip-hop group ### CONCERTS It’s quite difficult to believe that “Bricks” are celebrating their anniversary - especially for twenty years, but if you think about it, there is nothing surprising: the album “Death at the Rave” was released in 1999 - all this time “Kirpichi” remained themselves and constantly changed, from the Russian version of the Beastie Boys moving almost to stoner, and then - to relaxed hip-hop. / St.