The central event of 2016 for the Russian theater was the release of the book “ Vasilyev Parautopia Abdullaev” - by the force of influence with the Uvraz of Anatoly Vasiliev and the dawn of Abdullaeva, neither stage premieres , nor loud scandals , nor festival holidays , nor promising personnel appointments could compete. About the book of the year - Dmitry Renansky. A.V.: My very first concert in a children's music school. The city of Tula. The first exit to the stage.

The obvious property of the current musical situation - there are more and more composers living next to us in the information space. And with them - and the music they wrote, in which it is not easy to navigate. Summing up the year, Colta.ru asked to understand the composers themselves and invited everyone to decide what the premiere of the new music that happened this year would go down in history.

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9252 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

© Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant V Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Exhibition "Time of reasonable doubts" in the GTSIA, 2016 I. GTSIS and ROSIZO The main event of 2016 in the artistic sphere, unexpected and discouraging, was the violent association of the State Center for Contemporary Art (GCSI) with a different structure - Rosiso that occurred in May.

In 2016, the Soviet 60s recalled with a special feeling: they released books , shot series , arranged exhibitions and, of course, sang “Old Songs of the Main” . This unforgettable New Year’s television project (which became doubly retro - he turned 20 years old) set the stereotypical set of Soviet songs, popping up whenever he talks about the sixties.

The main emotion of the last year (possibly extremely subjective, but no less real)-the feeling of some general context, the presence of the main highway of the film process, and always formed quite doubtful (landscape spreading before the gaze of even a professional spectator, was formed not by autonomous films, but the conjuncture of local rental, the private taste of the festival, finally blurred.

On the eve of the New Year, Colta.ru decided to ask representatives of the literary world that interesting and important, in their opinion, occurred in literature and literary life in 2016.

A subjective attempt to recall all the “most-most” that happened to domestic music in the year, in 14 nominations. 1. Musical meme of the year 2. Trend of the year 3. Scandal of the year 4. Album of the year 5. Rock hero of the year 6. Retro group of the year 7. The near abroad of the year 8. Cumbek of the year 9. Electropop of the year 10. Female rock of the year 11. Audio -performance of the year 12. Culturer of the year 13. Rap ​​of the year 14. Something year 1.

Stability requires stress. And the voltage requires discharge. Two anniversaries, 70 years of the Great Victory last year and 100 years of the revolution in the next, throw two historical projections to Russia, allowing them to survive the contradictory scenarios of discharge through shock.