On November 25, the Presidential Center and Museum of Boris Yeltsin, designed by the American company Ralph Appelbaum Associates, will open in Yekaterinburg. In a large international team that worked on the creation of this large-scale museum was Boris Minaev, the author of the biography of the first president of Russia, which in 2010 published in the series of ZhZL.

In the early 20s of the last century, two veterans of the First World War, two former subjects of Emperor Franz Joseph, at a short distance from each other and with a very small time difference, almost simultaneously, dictated and dictated two thick folio. And both about the same thing. About idiocy. About its identity to our world. But with the difference in the approach, and fundamental.

Ai Weiwei made a portrait of Udaltsov © AI WeIWEI / Instagram The image of the “Left Front” coordinator Sergei Udaltsov entered a series of portraits of political activists created by the Chinese artist Ai Weiveay. The series that Ai Weiwei published on his Instagram includes several dozen portraits of representatives of different countries of the world, in particular, Edward Snowden and Martin Luther King (USA), trade union activist Reza Shahabi and Nobel Prize Aun San Su Su Chi (Myanmar).

In Russia, the Satyricon Book of 1915 will be reprinted The Humanitarian Academy Publishing Center launched a crowdfunding project in support of the reprint of the book “Warm Company (those with whom we are fighting), created in 1915 by the authors of the satiricon satirical magazine.

Awarded the Dragomoshchenko Award © Nikolai Simonovsky / Obtaz.com On Sunday, November 22, at the European University in St. Petersburg, an Arkady Dragmoshchenko poetic award ceremony was held for young authors writing in Russian. The laureate of the award was Alexander Tsibul (Petersburg). According to the website of the Cultural Initiative project, it received 70 thousand rubles and the opportunity to publish her book in the series “New Poems” of the publishing house “The Order of Words”.

The motley “Cornukopy”-the first album of the journalist and actor, who discovered the musical gift at 44, was an ambitious attempt to blow up the swamp of Russian pop music . It is difficult to say whether the idea was 100%successful, but there were plenty of noise then. The other day, Igor Grigoryev announced the release of the second album "Sophomor", work on which was several years; Judging by the first song, it will be radically different from the pretentious and eclectic “Cornacopius”.

Conference "Jacques Gandshin and musicology of the 21st century" © Russian Institute of Art History The International Scientific and Practical Conference "Jacques Gandshin and musicology of the 21st century" will be held on November 23-24 in St. Petersburg. On November 25, 2015, he marks the 60th anniversary of the death of an outstanding Russian-Swiss organist and musicologist Jacques Gandshin (1886, Moscow-1955, Basel).

The edition of the seven -meter Moses Kagan was completed On November 27, at the XVII International Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/Fiction, a presentation will be held on the end of the work of the Petropolis publishing house over the seven -volume edition of the “Selected Proceedings” of the aesthetics, philosopher, and culturologist Moses Kagan.

"Voikovskaya" will remain "Voikovskaya" © No-exit.org Today, November 23, an online survey was completed on the renaming of the transport hub in the north of Moscow, which includes the Voikovskaya metro station. More than 53% of its participants spoke out against renaming. In favor of the renaming, 35%spoke, it found it difficult to answer 7%, the remaining 5%of respondents believe that this issue “should solve specialists,” TASS reports.

Stanislavsky Electrotheater opens a new scene On Tuesday, November 24, a new scene of the Stanislavsky electrode on the territory of the former Electromachine-Building Plant in the area of ​​the Belorusskaya metro station will open the premiere of the play “Colonel-Bird”. The brick factory corps on the Presnensky shaft was built in 1903 and belonged to the workshop of the Moscow-Brest Railway. In 1927, they were renamed the Moscow Electric Machine Building Plant "Memory of the 1905 Revolution".