Interactive programmes and master classes for children and youth

In the World of Dostoevsky

An interactive session for an exhibition about F.M. Dostoevsky for middle school, high school and class students.

The activity is based on the most important and interesting biography and works of F. Dostoevsky. During the literary bingo game, participants will receive questions and give their answers. Thanks to this entertaining game, everyone will get acquainted with various biographical and creative aspects of the writer's life, examine texts of novels, journalism and letters by Dostoevsky, and see portraits of Fyodor Dostoevsky and his contemporaries, as well as views of the cities where the writer lived or visited. This lesson will be a good addition to the school curriculum and will broaden students' horizons in the fields of literature and geography, allowing them to learn and remember the information they receive in the best possible way.

Music and Nature

How did our world come into being? What was it like before life began? What moves the elements, where do thunderstorms and fog come from and how do birds' voices differ? We are used to getting answers to these questions from science, philosophy, mythology, etc. At the same time, our relationship with nature is also reflected in art. This lecture will include pieces from several works of European composers from the early 18th to the early 20th century and we will discuss how classical music specifically talks about the cosmos and the atmosphere, animals, birds and insects.

Program author: Lyalya Kandaurova

Journey into the Word

Interactive Russian language class for middle and high school students.

What is a 'phrasebook'? How can we make our speech as clear, literate and imaginative as possible? How can we avoid mistakes? We will find the answers to these questions together, reading works of classical literature, listening to audio recordings, and not forgetting about the rules of orthography, orthoepy and stylistics.

We were friends with the sea

An interactive activity for primary, secondary and small group pupils.

Let's go to the sea! But which one shall we choose? Shallow or bottomless, tender or willful, north or south? The choice will not be easy. Russian poets, artists and composers will help us. We will read poems (from Pushkin to Pasternak), look at pictures by marine painters, listen to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, examine sea shells and try to make paper ships. If you have seashells at home, bring them: we will try to describe them after the poem by Marina Boroditskaya.

Love, melody and poetry

Love, melody and poetry - a festive programme dedicated to the most romantic European holiday, Valentine's Day. Young participants will get acquainted with the masterpieces of classical music by Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, as well as fragments of the famous film "Romeo and Juliet" by F. Zeffirelli. The programme includes fun competitions and a dance master-class!