CULTURE

KEEPING THE FAITH

On weekends, Father Ioann Okhlobystin can be found tending to his flock at St. Sofia’s Church of the Wisdom of God, opposite the Kremlin in Moscow. He wears a long, black priestly cassock and sometimes gives sermons about love and friendship.

During the ...

CHERNOV’S CHOICE

The music program for this week’s Finnish-Russian Music Seminar, organized by the Sibelius Academy, the Finnish Music Information Centre (Fimic) and the ...

IF THEY CAN MAKE IT THERE...

NEW YORK — Every literate Russian can quote Pushkin and hum a tune from Glinka. No Russian orchestra on the road is likely to leave either man at home. Valery Gergiev and the Kirov (Mariinsky) Orchestra of St. Petersburg, in three Carnegie Hall concerts ...

SHOCK OF THE NEW

Russian sculptor Anatoly Osmolovsky won Russia’s first Kandinsky Prize for contemporary art with a work inspired by a Soviet tank turret.

The bronze “T-72” ...

WAIFS AND STRAYS

“Oщ vont les chiens?” asks a new photography exhibition at Cafй Zoom at 22 Ulitsa Gorokhovaya. The quote, taken from Charles Baudelaire’s The Good Dog (“Where are the dogs going?”), not only refers to our canine friends, the cohabitants of our cities, ...

SCORCHED EARTH

World War II — the “Great Patriotic War,” in Soviet parlance — played and continues to play a critical role in Russians’ understanding of who they are ...

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Kremlin watchers all get up early on Wednesday mornings, so that they can catch the latest bulletin from an insider who keeps her nose to the ground and her ears pricked up for juicy titbits. I'm referring of course to Kremlin Expert, the insightful column ...

SURREAL THING

Dali Cafe // 11 Spassky Pereulok. Tel: 572 6203 // www.dalicafe.spb.ru // Open 10 a.m. to 5 a.m. // Dinner for two 690 rubles ($29).

All the dishes at ...

GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL AT DOM KINO

A festival of German films, opening Friday with “Porno! Melo! Drama!” running through Dec. 16, features a wide selection of features, short and documentary films made in Germany over the last year. The festival organizers said this year’s festival highlights ...

PERFORMANCES CAPTURED

You don’t need to wait for Angelina Jolie to rise from the vaporous depths naked and dripping liquid gold to know that this “Beowulf” isn’t your high school ...