“Siberian Health” – organic products from Siberia
Monday, April 9, 2018
7–10 pm
Come and learn more about “Siberian Health”
Organic products from Siberia
Admission free, registration necessary: olga@rach-c.org
Uncle Vanya Cafe
“Stalingrad”: movie screening at Queens Library
“Stalingrad” is a 2013 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd (formerly “Stalingrad”). The film is a love story set in November 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, three months into that six month conflagration that caused nearly 2,000,000 total casualties (wounded, killed, captured) for the two opponents, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians.
The movie will be shown on Thursday, April 27th at 6 pm at Queens Public Library Central, 89-11 Merrick Blvd., Jamaica NY 11432 (F train to 169th Street).
“Such an Unsafe Throne”
Queen Victoria, Russia and the Romanovs
Monday, April 25, 2016
6:00 PM
General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen
20 West 44th Street
New York, NY
The Royal Oak Foundation with Co-Sponsors, The Hermitage Museum Foundation (USA) and The Victorian Society in America are proud to present an in depth lecture by Historian and Author, Helen Rappaport.
Following the Crimean War (1854-1856), an intense period of Russophobia took hold of the UK. While Queen Victoria had a deep mistrust of Russia—deeming it a place with an ‘unsafe throne’—rapprochement came as her grandchildren reached marriageable age and her ambitions for suitable dynastic unions became urgent. The Hesse Princesses Ella and her sister Alexandra were Victoria’s favorite granddaughters—she became a surrogate mother after their own mother Princess Alice died in 1878. While the Queen initially resisted Ella’s marriage to Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich, and Alexandra’s to Tsarevich Nicholas, eventually she conceded that both must be free to marry for love. Despite her misgivings, the Queen had an abiding influence over the upbringing of her great-grandchildren, who grew up in a very English domestic atmosphere at their home in Russia, spoke fluent English and revered their English ‘granny.’ After the Queen’s death in 1909, cordial relations between Britain and Russia continued and the entire Romanov family visited their English cousins at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Sadly, this accord did not continue after the Revolution; King George V reneged on his offer of asylum to the imperial family, and Queen Victoria’s beloved granddaughters perished in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Spanning 80 years, from 1839 to the murder of the Romanovs, historian and best-selling author Helen Rappaport will explore the British Royal family’s tumultuous relationship with Russia.
This lecture is followed by a reception and book-signing.
“The Spring Ball” of the Russian Nobility Association in America
May 8, 2015, Hotel Pierre, NY
The Russian Nobility Association in America will celebrate its thirty-sixth annual Spring ball and its eighty-second year in 2015 with a wonderful ball at the Hotel Pierre in New York. Guests will enjoy an excellent meal, balalaika entertainment by the Barynya Ensemble, and dancing into the night with the famed Alex Donner orchestra.
Please join the Russian Nobility Association at the next Annual Spring Ball.
Scheduled for May 8, 2015
The Hotel Pierre
New York
Please contact Roberta Maged for information at
RNA@russiannobility.org for tickets and information.
“The Spring Ball” of the Russian Nobility Association in America
of The Russian Nobility Association In America
May 9, 2014 at 7:30 pm, The Grand Ballroom of The Pierre Hotel
For information and tickets, please contact Roberta Maged at rna@russiannobility.org
Tickets are only available by request through the Russian Nobility Association in America.
Pricing of individual tickets:
Benefactor: $450.00 each, or $400 if purchased BEFORE April 28, 2014.
Silver: $750.00 each.
Gold: $1000.00 each.
Dancing ONLY: $130 each, or $150 at the door.
Pricing for tables of ten (10):
Benefactor: $4,500.00 or $4,000.00 if purchased BEFORE April 28, 2014 includes: cocktail reception, dinner, dancing.
Silver: $7,500.00 includes everything above, plus acknowledgement in the Ball Journal.
Gold: $10,000 includes everything above, plus acknowledgements.
ABOUT THE RNA:
In 1936, the Russian Nobility Association in America held their first ball at the Plaza Hotel, attended by “White Russian” émigrés and members of New York Society. Each year since then, the Association has held balls, thé dansants, and supper dances to raise funds to support numerous charitable organizations. The year 2014 marks the 35th anniversary of their Annual “Spring Ball”, the first of which was celebrated in 1979 at the Pierre Hotel. This year, guests will return to the Pierre to dance to the music of the Alex Donner Orchestra, Alex Juskin and the Kalinka Orchestra, and to see a performance by the Barynya Dance Ensemble. The evening is to benefit the Association’s charities in the United States and abroad, which includes the Prince Alexis Scherbatow Scholarship Fund.
The Russian Nobility Association was founded in 1933, and incorporated on December 16th, 1938. It is a non-political, non-profit organization. Its aims are philanthropic and genealogical. The Association directs donations to charitable organizations which provide food, shelter, and medical treatment for disadvantaged persons in Russia, Europe, South America and the United States. It also provides direct aid to orphanages, the indigent elderly, seminaries, and other people in need. Voting membership is exclusively reserved for descendants of individuals who were listed in the nobility archives of the former Russian Imperial Senate. Other membership categories exist. For historical purposes, titled members are recorded with their ancestral titles.