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Sergei Mironov Visited V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute
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|02.06.10: Press-service| // On June 1, 2010 the Chairman of the Council of Federation Sergei Mironov visited V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute at the invitation of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli, where he was shown works by its senior students and graduates. Sergei Mironov also got acquainted with the work of the painting and sculpture workshops and had a meeting with teachers and students of the Institute. |
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Unveiling of the Monument to Victims of Beslan in Moscow
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|01.06.10: Press-service| // On June 1, in Moscow was unveiled a memorial to victims of the school hostage siege in the North Ossetian-Alanian town of Beslan on September 1-3, 2004. The monument designed by the People’s Artist of Russia, President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli stands in the downtown of Moscow in front of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin at Kulishki – Alanian town church of the Moscow Ossetian community, 5/2 Solyanka street. |
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Love for France: Interview of the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli to INTERFAX Agency
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|30.05.10: INTERFAX.RU| // The President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli has more than once told us about the influence of France on his creative work. It is quite natural, that he is an active participant in the events in honor of the Year of France in Russia and the Year of Russia in France. Before his leaving for Paris, where there will be held several exhibitions of the Russian Academy of Arts, Zurab Tsereteli has told the INTERFAX about the expositions to be presented to the French public. |
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The Order of the Legion of Honor Was Presented to Zurab Tsereteli
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|11.05.10: Press-Service| // On May 11, 2010 in Tsereteli Art Gallery, 19 Prechistenka street, the Ambassador of the French Republic to the Russian Federation Jean de Gliniasty presented the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli with the National Order of the Legion of Honor. The award ceremony was attended by representatives of the French Embassy in Moscow, scientific and creative elite of Russia, members of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts and admirers of Zurab Tsereteli’s talent. |
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The 15th Anniversary of the War Memorial on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow
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|05.05.10: Press-service| // For 15 years of its existence the War Memorial on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow has become a traditional venue for meetings of veterans and young people, one of the main places for paying tribute to the memory of heroes who won the victory over fascism in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the most bloody in the history of mankind. |
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Opening of the Season of Fountains in Moscow
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|30.04.10: Press-service| // According to the Moscow Mayor’s resolution, the season of fountains will be officially opened today in the capital. The first fountain to be launched will be the Years of War fountain on Poklonnaya Hill that is a part of the Memorial Complex designed by Zurab Tsereteli. “This fountain consists of five cascades which are located on Poklonnaya Hill along Kutuzovsky Prospect. It symbolizes the grief of war days. When it is illuminated at night, the water in the fountain becomes red” – as it was informed at t |
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Exhibition In Honor of the 65th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945
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|29.04.10: Press-service| // Organized by the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RF President’s Plenipotentiary in the Central Federal Region Georgy Poltavchenko and the Russian Academy of Arts, the exhibition in Tsereteli Art Gallery is devoted to the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory and is an expression of gratitude to artists who took part in the great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. |
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Gift of Zurab Tsereteli to the City of Yaroslavl
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|14.04.10: Press-service| // In honor of the 1000th anniversary of Yaroslavl the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli will present as a gift to the city a bronze bear that is a symbol of Yaroslavl. It will be a centerpiece of the city park in honor of its 1000th anniversary on the embankment of the Kotorosl River. Zurab Tsereteli has proposed his own artistic design – the bear standing on two legs is holding a big fish. The three-meter tall sculpture has already been completed and appreciated by the city authoriti |
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Solo Show of Works by the Moscow Painter Inna Bazhutina in Tsereteli Art Gallery
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|19.03.10: Press-service| // In paintings of Inna Bazhutina are intricately combined a reality and fantasy, everything connected with her feelings, impressions and recollections. They contain no narrative topic and are rather her philosophical reflections on the sense of existence, confrontation of diverse forces in nature, place of a man in the world. |
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Zurab Tsereteli is a Chevalier of the National Order of the Legion of Honor
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|19.02.10: Press-service| // The highest decoration of France will be presented to the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. The National Order of the Legion of Honor (Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur) was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is awarded by the President of France. In his letter dated February 1, 2010 the French President Nicolas Sarkozy has specially noted: “This authoritative decoration which I have considered it necessary to confer on you from my personal reserves of crosses is an |
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