Pushkin Ball: What you need to know about this summer’s main cultural event

We know that the upcoming Pushkin Ball has a good chance of becoming this summer’s main cultural event. We’ve collected everything you need to know about him.

The event will take place on June 30 in Moscow at Gostiny Dvor and will be a historical reconstruction of the 1899 Grand Ball, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of AS. Pushkin.

On the day of the ball, a collection of unique artifacts from the Pushkin era will be presented in the Gostiny Dvor: rare books, autographs with drawings of the poet, in particular, a fragment of a handwritten sheet with poetic lines from the play “The”. The Stingy Knight”, four hand-drawn profiles by AS Pushkin and the author, including a previously unknown self-portrait.

During the ball organized by Synergy Corporation and the Roscongress Foundation, a fashion show will be held and a solemn ceremony will be held, where the finalists-winners of the International Competition of Designers and Artists will be presented with special prizes for the best costume of the heroes of the world. Works of AS Pushkin. More than a thousand people from 23 countries and 65 cities of Russia participated in the competition.

Musical accompaniment will consist of the best parts of the operas “Eugene Onegin” and “Queen of Spades” by PI Tchaikovsky, “Aleko” by SV Rachmaninov, “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by MI Glinka, “Boris Godunov” by MP. Mussorgsky. Of course, the main dance program includes waltz, mazurka and quadrille. Guests will be given a polonaise lesson.

The guests of honor of the ball will be the stars of Russian show business Pavel Volya and Laysan Utyasheva, Konstantin Ernst, Igor Vernik, Ida Galich, Igor Butman and others. The event is hosted by theater and cinema actors Dmitry Dyuzhev and Ekaterina Guseva.