The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS)


2020-10-22 19:00: Russian Poetry of the Second World War, a talk by Dr Maria Bloshteyn with poetry readings in Russian and English and Q&As - Thursday, 22 Oct, 19:00 (Dr Maria Bloshteyn)

2020-11-06 19:00: Member of the Family or Barbarian at the Gate? Russia and the West, by Sir Tony Brenton followed by Q&As – Friday, 6 November, 19:00. (Sir Tony Brenton)

2020-11-27 19:00: When Art Danced with Music: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, by Dr Natalia Murray followed by Q&As  (Dr Natalia Murray)

2021-03-26 00:00: CamRuSS Easter Art Sale (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-03-26 00:00: CamRuSS Easter Art Sale - 12-26 March  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-04-08 19:00: “Gagarin, Zvyozdochka and Prime Minister Macmillan: the Build-up to and Aftermath of the First Human Spaceflight” with Doug Millard (Doug Millard, the Science Museum)

2021-04-15 19:00: "Belarus, the Keystone in Europe’s Borderlands" with Neil Kent  (Neil Kent, Cambridge University)

2021-05-21 19:00: Marking the Centenary of Academician Andrei Sakharov: Panel discussion (in English and Russian) – Friday, 21 May at 19:00 (BST) (Panel discussion)

2021-06-04 19:00: “Russian Language: Between the Past and the Future,” a lecture by Evgeny Vodolazkin (in Russian) – Friday, 4 June at 19:00 (BST) (Evgeny Vodolazkin)

2021-06-24 19:00: “Ivanovo – the ‘Russian Manchester’, and the Story of Printed Textiles in Russia”, a talk by Pamela Smith – Thursday, 24 June at 19:00 (BST) (Pamela Smith)

2021-09-23 19:00: Three Capitals in the Life and Work of the Russian Artist Alexander Florensky: St Petersburg-Tbilisi-Moscow (in Russian) (Alexander Florensky)

2021-10-01 19:00: Londongrad: Is it still “From Russia With Cash”? by Mark Hollingsworth (Mark Hollingsworth)

2021-10-07 19:00: “Daily Life in Moscow Following the Collapse of Communism”: An illustrated talk with Robert Stephenson (Robert Stephenson)

2021-11-04 19:00: Marking the Bicentenary of Dostoevsky's Birth – A talk by V. Dimitriev (in Russian): On the Structure of the Idea in Dostoevsky's Works (Dr Victor Dimitriev, Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg; Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, St Petersburg)

2021-11-29 19:00: "Double-Headed Eagle: Russia between East and West" with Sir Tony Brenton (Sir Tony Brenton)

2021-12-03 19:00: “British Awareness of Russian Culture over Three Centuries: From the ‘Discovery’ of Russia to the End of the Crimean War (1553-1856)” with Professor Anthony Cross (Professor Anthony Cross)

2022-02-04 19:30: "Yuri Lotman in My Life" with Marina Sonkina (Marina Sonkina, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada)

2022-02-18 19:00: "The Language and Literary Works of F.M. Dostoevsky": A lecture by Professor Igor Ruzhitsky (in English) (Professor Igor Ruzhitsky, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Moscow Region State University)

2022-04-29 18:00: A Conversation with Boris Akunin – Russia: Its Past, Present and Future (Boris Akunin)

2022-09-23 19:00: Korney Chukovsky, The Writer & Translator. Then and Now (Dr Megan Swift, University of Victoria in Canada and Olga Bukhina, independent scholar)

2022-10-08 18:00: An evening of poetry and music marking Marina Tsvetaeva’s 130th anniversary  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-11-25 18:00: “On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border” (Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge )

2023-02-16 18:30: “Inconvenient Truths” talk by Jennifer Antill – author of Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian Revolution (Jennifer Antill)

2023-02-24 19:00: Anti-War Poetry Evening – online (Julia Nemirovskaya, Maria Bloshteyn, Andrei Burago, Richard Coombes, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Dmitri Manin)

2023-03-24 18:00: Geographies of Russia: Lecture by Alexander Chernokulsky “Climate Change in Russia” (Speaker to be confirmed)

2023-06-22 18:30: From Furs to Fabergé: Gifts, Diplomacy and British-Russian Artistic Relations by Dr Louise Hardiman (Dr Louise Hardiman)

2023-06-22 18:30: From Furs to Fabergé: Gifts, Diplomacy and British-Russian Artistic Relations  (Dr Louise Hardiman)

2024-11-14 18:30: A Cultural History of the Russian Language – talk by Prof Simon Franklin marking the 25th anniversary of CamRuSS (Simon Franklin is a professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, and fellow of Clare College.)

2025-02-04 18:30: Know You Her Secret – a book launch by Dr Merrilyn Thomas in conversation with Prof Anthony Cross (Dr Merrilyn Thomas)

2025-02-04 19:00: A Presentation of Dislocation: The Second Volume of Anti-War Poetry Anthology (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-02-21 19:00: A Magic Mirror. An Evening of Poetry with Julia Nemirovskaya (Julia Nemirovskaya, University of Oregon)

2025-02-25 19:00: A Presentation of Dislocation: The Second Volume of Anti-War Poetry Anthology (Julia Nemirovskaya, Anna Krushelnitskaya, Maria Bloshteyn, and others)

2025-03-08 19:00: An Evening of Spring Romance (Jessica Lawrence-Hares (mezzo-soprano) and Olga Elbourn (piano))

2025-03-29 19:00: Piano Recital by Vitaly Pisarenko (Vitaly Pisarenko)

2025-04-28 18:30: In Search of True Beauty and Genuine Knowledge: The Life and Work of Nicholas Roerich by Dr Natalia Budanova (in Russian) (Dr Natalia Budanova)

2025-10-13 18:00: Nobeliate Stories: How the Discoveries of 2025 and Past Years Were Made — and Why They Matter, a Talk by Ilya Kolmanovsky (Speaker to be confirmed)

2025-12-11 18:30: July Rain (1966): Ksenia Golubovich on Marlen Khutsiev’s Masterpiece (Ksenia Golubovich )