Every Saturday @ 12:40PM, Columbia University

All classes in April are dedicated to Russian-American history month

Andrey Vlasov, PhD student at Columbia University, is holding free math classes for 3rd-7th graders in Russian.

Classes are focused mostly on problems from math olympiads (traditional math competitions in Russia).

Pupin Hall of Columbia University
538 West 120 street, room 425
New York, NY 10027

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Rustem Galitch Theater of Poetry and Music Presents

Inna Yesilevskaya, Rustem Galitch and Children’s Musical Group “Golden Rooster”

In a New Theatrical Production of

“Great Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen”

For Children and Adults, with Interactive Participation of the Audience

Fairy Tales by Andersen

Andersen’s Fairy Tales are thought provoking and kind, wise and magical. They have taught us empathy and compassion and will remain with us. They will continue to guide and to bring joy to our children, grandchildren and their children, discovered anew with every generation. Thus, they always remain Fairy Tales of Deep Importance.

Rustem Galitch Theater of Poetry and Music and Children’s Musical Group “Golden Rooster” under leadership of Irine Zagornoy, is proud to present a new production titled “Hans Christian Andersen” Performers, educators, and masters of the spoken word Rustem Galitch and Inna Yesilevskaya interpret Andersen’s philosophical, iconic stories, making them relevant and alive to the young audiences.

Children’s songs and nursery rhymes will be performed by “Golden Rooster”.

The audience will be encouraged to participate, play and engage with the show; at times invited to come up on the stage and perform alongside the actors. This participatory element will allow the audience to shape the production, not only as observers but also as collaborators.

The fairy tale acts as a window into the world, opening the reader up to its enchanted wisdom.

Anderson’s fairy tales are inhabited by living and non-living things—flowers and children share secrets with each other; dolls and toy soldiers run away in pursuit of love and happiness; trees and animals share the same language; houses, streets, shoes and umbrellas are infused with magical properties capable of turning time back or deciding human fate. Love is the dominating force in Anderson’s world.

Anderson used to say that fairy tales come to him. He said, “They are whispered to me by the trees, they are carried to me by the winds… I have so much to offer. Sometimes I feel that every fence, every little flower talks to me – Look at me, they say, and my life will open up to you!—and as soon as I realize it, I can tell a story about any of them.”

This theatrical production of “Great Storyteller” will give the children an opportunity to become the creators of their own unique world, to touch the knowledge of the philosophical essence of good and evil through play, fantasy and music.

Please join us and see the magic of the fairy tales come to life.

Admission $ 15

Tickets at the door

On the other hand, you can order the tickets by email: innaco@gmail.com

Rustem Galitch- actor, director and producer.

Rustem Galitch– graduated from the Schepkin Higher Theatre School (Moscow). He has directed and starred in the play “The Demon” based on the poem by M. Lermontov. Rustem founded a Theater of Poetry and Music and staged several plays with have had success in Europe and America. He had also performed in the productions of the Literary Theater Dialogue and have several productions at the Metropolitan Opera.

Inna Yesilevskaya – Actress, Director and Producer.

Inna Yesilevskaya – Graduated from The Kazan Theater School and has performed at the Ivanovo Regional Theater and Saratov Academic Theater in Russia.

Her stage credits in New York include seven seasons with Steps Theater. She is also an actor with the Literary Theater Dialogue. She has performed in various productions of the Haverim Theater and The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Inna is a lead actor of the Rustem Galitch Theater of Poetry and Music.

The Golden Rooster

The Golden Rooster is a Russian Children’s Folk Group founded in New York in 1995 by director Irina Zagornova. A native of Russia, Irina graduated from the Mussorgsky College of Music in St. Petersburg, where she studied folk singing and classical piano. Irina began the group as a way of preserving Russian folk traditions through a medley of singing, dancing, folk rituals, and musical games. Handmade folk costumes, lyrical love songs, and popular melodies make the group’s performances educational, original, and incredibly entertaining.

The Golden Rooster has regularly performed at the United Nations, the Russian Consulate in New York, the Russian Embassy in Washington D.C., and many other local and international venues. In addition, they represented America in the International Russian Folk Festival in Moscow in October 2007.

May 10, 2016 at 7:00 PM

15 East 97th Street, New York, NY
(between 5th and Madison Ave.)

Free and open to the public

Fr. Alexander Golubov, former Academic Dean of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania , gives a tour on the buildings history and architectural innovations.

April 24, 2014 @ 7 PM

15 East 97th Street, New York, NY (between 5th and Madison Ave.) Free and open to the public

Fr. Alexander Golubov, gives a tour on the buildings history and architectural innovations. Former Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Spirituality, Fr. Golobov attended Temple University (B.A. in English Literature), the University of Rochester (M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian Literature and Intellectual History) and St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and Academy (Pastoral and Theological Formation). Author of more than 20 published articles, including “Spirituality in the Orthodox Context,” the Foreword of Dumitru Staniloae’s Orthodox Spirituality, he has contributed to Sourozh (“The Rags of Morality: Original Sin and Human Nature”) and Pravoslavnaia Entsyklopediia (articles on the Alaskan Diocese and Bishop Amphilochius, in Russian). He has also spoken at various conferences, including “Issues of Religion and Identity in Russian History and Culture” at Boston Theological Institute/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and “The Struggle for Ecclesiology” at the Davis Center at Harvard University. Most recently, he lectured at the 28th annual Yale-Hopkins Summer Seminar at Yale University on the topic “Understanding Medvedev’s Russia: the Orthodox Church.” St. Nicholas Cathedral, The first Orthodox parish in New York, on the eastern coast of North America, dates back to 1870. The church, arranged at a private home on Second Avenue, was attended by the Greeks, the Serbs and the Syrians, but mainly by employees of the Russian Consulate. At the end of the XIX century, the flow of immigrants from Russia significantly increased, and the modest-sized chapel was no longer able to accommodate all who wanted to come and pray. in September 1899 a specially established committee bought a plot of 150 yards on East 97th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenue for a temple to accommodate 900 people. The cornerstone of the cathedral was laid on May 9 (May 22, New Style), 1901 (the day of the Translation of Saint Nicholas’ relics). The first service in a newly built church was held on November 10 (23 OS), 1902. It was attended by more than two thousand believers (twice the designed capacity), and no less than a thousand worshipers stood in the street. St. Nicholas Cathedral – as a center of spiritual life and prayer – houses many sacred objects:

April 18, 2015 @ 7:30 PM, St. Nicholas Cathedral

15 East 97th Street, New York, NY (between 5th and Madison Ave.)
Free and open to the public

Fr. Alexander Golubov, gives a tour on the buildings history and architectural innovations. Former Academic Dean and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Spirituality, Fr. Golobov attended Temple University (B.A. in English Literature), the University of Rochester (M.A. and Ph.D. in Russian Literature and Intellectual History) and St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and Academy (Pastoral and Theological Formation). Author of more than 20 published articles, including “Spirituality in the Orthodox Context,” the Foreword of Dumitru Staniloae’s Orthodox Spirituality, he has contributed to Sourozh (“The Rags of Morality: Original Sin and Human Nature”) and Pravoslavnaia Entsyklopediia (articles on the Alaskan Diocese and Bishop Amphilochius, in Russian). He has also spoken at various conferences, including “Issues of Religion and Identity in Russian History and Culture” at Boston Theological Institute/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and “The Struggle for Ecclesiology” at the Davis Center at Harvard University. Most recently, he lectured at the 28th annual Yale-Hopkins Summer Seminar at Yale University on the topic “Understanding Medvedev’s Russia: the Orthodox Church.” St. Nicholas Cathedral, The first Orthodox parish in New York, on the eastern coast of North America, dates back to 1870.

The church, arranged at a private home on Second Avenue, was attended by the Greeks, the Serbs and the Syrians, but mainly by employees of the Russian Consulate. At the end of the XIX century, the flow of immigrants from Russia significantly increased, and the modest-sized chapel was no longer able to accommodate all who wanted to come and pray. in September 1899 a specially established committee bought a plot of 150 yards on East 97th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenue for a temple to accommodate 900 people. The cornerstone of the cathedral was laid on May 9 (May 22, New Style), 1901 (the day of the Translation of Saint Nicholas’ relics). The first service in a newly built church was held on November 10 (23 OS), 1902. It was attended by more than two thousand believers (twice the designed capacity), and no less than a thousand worshipers stood in the street. St. Nicholas Cathedral – as a center of spiritual life and prayer – houses many sacred objects: