The memoirs of Dmitry Nikolaevich Fedotov-White (1889 - 1950), a naval officer, historian and publicist in exile, tell of his wanderings during the First World War and the Civil War. Dmitry Nikolaevich was intelligent, observant, non-cruel, witty and at the same time a very lucky person, and his book, which describes events covering a fairly wide period from 1914 to 1921, goes far beyond the interest in the events of the Revolution and Civil War set in the current anniversary year.

The legendary animation of Alexander Petrov is an oil painting that became a film. Material for the exhibition “My Love. The Creation of the Film” was based on “footage” from the animated film “My Love”, written by Alexander Petrov, directed and designed by Alexander Petrov. He created the picture based on the novel “A Love Story” by Ivan Shmelev (1873-1950). The Russian writer composed one of his most lyrical works in exile, in France, where he had been since 1923.

From November 16 to 25, the international LGBT film festival “Side by Side” is taking place in St. Petersburg. The program includes not only films, fiction and documentaries, but also public discussions .

Erarta Museum presents a large-scale exhibition dedicated to the work of the famous Russian director Sergei Aleksandrovich Solovyov . In several exhibition halls, viewers will see photographs from the personal archive of the creator of “Assa,” installations, costumes and artifacts from the film sets. Sergei Alexandrovich himself claims that the exhibition is a kind of report on the artistic (or not so much) work done over the past five years.

Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art presents an exhibition of animated video art “Heroes and Illusions” , which will be held as part of the Multivision festival. The Multivision festival explores animation as a fine art. For the seventh year now, the festival’s competition has included a nomination for “Best Video Installation” - it was created specifically for animated works that are closer to a “live” painting, sculpture or set design than to a movie.

Erarta Museum presents a special exhibition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Korean and Russian-Korean studies at St. Petersburg State University. The formation of tansekhwa was undoubtedly influenced by minimalism and conceptualism. At the same time, in minimalism, more attention was paid to the essence of the depicted object than to technology and colors, and conceptualism rejected the materialistic side of art.

Most of all, Margarita Ivanovna loved to lie. She lied about everything world, about paid bills for the apartment, about trips to countryside countries, about the number of years lived, about height, about weight and even about your everyday life pastime.

Among the numerous reviews of BladeRunner 2049, few paid attention to Villeneuve's strange appeal to Nabokov's novel. In the mention of Pale Fire, critics saw only an homage or an Easter egg. It would seem that what could be more distant from each other: Nabokov’s literary experiments and science fiction about artificial people? However, the novel also provides a clue to some of the film's themes. Many people were waiting for the new Bladerunner.

[from recordings and excerpts on nevertheless.com ] In The Brothers Karamazov, the head of the family, Fyodor Pavlovich, at some point suggests spitting on the icon in order to demonstrate, relatively speaking, the inability of the icon to somehow influence him in response.

Exhibition project of the Erarta Museum , reflecting the consequences of the revolution and the civilizational loneliness of the society that built socialism. This fall, exhibitions dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the revolution are opening across the country. For some museums, this is an excellent opportunity to show an applied version of the Russian avant-garde and the work of that time; for others, it is an opportunity to pull out works of socialist realism from the storerooms.