Relatives My grandfathers in my mother and father and grandmother in my father emigrated from Spain in the 30s. In St. Petersburg-the city where I was born and lived-there were many people who fled to Cuba during the war. Most of them did not even receive Cuban citizenship, and died by the Spaniards. And my father and mother were born already in Cuba. Dad worked all his life on tobacco plantations, mom was a housewife. She worked as part - she sewed clothes, was a modest. Good clothes awl.

Rain TV channel moved to a new studio Today, February 9, the rain began broadcasting from the new studio located at the Moscow Design Bank. The first news release was released at 13:00 Moscow time. “We are already completing the installation of a new studio,” the television channel said in a message. The audience is forgiven for the noise associated with the work on the device of the studio. From the day of its founding in 2010, Rain was in the Red October business center.

Colta.ru, the educational portal “Your History” and the Foundation “Lessons of the Nineties” launch the joint special project “School of the 90s” , in which famous teachers of history and literature will take part. It will be dedicated to the era of the 1990s in the context of Russian history. For the most important period in the latest history of Russia, we will look at the main signs of that time and its key events through the eyes of practicing teachers.

The Jerusalem Festival of Chamber Music will be held in Moscow © JCMF On March 17 and 18, 2015, concerts of the Jerusalem Festival of Chamber Music will be held at the Moscow Conservatory. The Jerusalem Festival of Chamber Music has been held since 1998. The founder and artistic director of the festival is the pianist Elena Bashkirova, who studied at the Moscow Conservatory with her father, pianist and teacher Dmitry Bashkirova.

Resurption "Houses of the New Culture" of Surkov © "Uralbusinessconsulting" Presentation of the House of New Culture in Pervouralsk, March 2013 The project of innovative cultural centers (ICCs) of the former Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov was recognized as insolvent. Now they will be called regional cultural centers (RCC), and their programs will not be related to contemporary art.

Kinoderma died Valery Zalotuha © Publishing House "Time" Today, February 9, in Moscow, at the age of 60, the filmmaker and prose writer Valery Zalotuha died. This was reported on his Facebook by Alexander Arkhangelsky. Volriy Aleksandrovich Zalotukha was born in 1954 in the Tula region, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University (1976) and the highest courses of scriptwriters and directors (1984, workshop of Semyon Lungin and Larisa Golubkina).

New exhibitions of the project "Department of Research Arts" are opening © Ivan Mikhailov Ivan Mikhailov. Civil Fair. 2013 On February 11, the first interdisciplinary project “Department of Research Arts” in Russia will continue in the center of modern art in Moscow with two exhibitions, uniting artists, photographers, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, architects and urbanists.

Sergey Dmitrievich Khodorovich was born on February 8, 1940 in Stalingrad. In 1960 he graduated from the Barnaul Construction College. In 1965-1972 he lived in Crimea, since 1972 - in Moscow. In 1977-1983 - the manager of the A.I. Solzhenitsyna of the Russian Public Fund for assistance to political prisoners and their families. Arrested on April 7, 1983. December 15, 1983 sentenced to three years in prison.

Altista RNO was returned "Stradivari" © Ksenia Khuleva / Facebook Alt with the stigma of Stradivari, forgotten by the altist of the Russian National Orchestra Ksenia Zhuleva in the metro on November 20 last year, returned to the owner.

Formed the jury of the Tchaikovsky competition Co -chairman of the Organizational Committee of the XV International Competition named after P.I. Tchaikovsky Valery Gergiev declared the composition of the jury. The competition will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg from June 15 to July 3, 2015 in four specialties: “piano”, “violin”, “cello” and “solo singing”, TASS reports. In each nomination, to determine the winners will be their own jury.

Sam Smith received four Grammy © The Recording Academy Sam Smith On Sunday, February 8, in Los Angeles the 57th ceremony of presenting the Musical Award of the American Academy of Sound Recording Grammy took place. The holder of four gold figurines was the 22-year-old British singer Sam Smith. He was recognized as the best new artist, his record “In the Lonely Hour” -the best vocal pop album, and the song “Stay with Me” won the categories “Record of the Year” and “Song of the Year”.