May 23 – How much of Russia was in Rome in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? The “Walk the Russian Rome: 1870-1920,” an exhibition at the Museum of Moscow by the Italian Institute of Culture, with the support of the Italian Embassy in Russia, the University of Tor Vergata and the Study Centre Ivanov in Rome may have the answer. The exhibition, which will be held until June 8, collects 32 vintage photographs, documents, magazines, postcards and posters of the Russian community in Rome between 1870 and 1920: the Gogol’ Library in via delle Colonnette, the “Taverna Russia” in via della Vite, the “Slovo” publishing house in Piazza del Popolo, and the many places dear to poet Vjaceslav Ivanov. The Russian community was made of places, yes, but also of people, such as cellist Aleksandr Barjanskij, archeologist Tatiana Varšer, painter Andrej Beloborodov, director Aleksandr Ural’skij, lawyer Nikolai Karabčevskij, writer Osip Felyne and poet Vyacheslav Ivanov and actress Tatyana Pavlova. After Moscow, the exhibition will visit other cities of the Russian Federation.
