a slideshow on Russian culture - literature, music, ballet, arts

1. Storytelling and Cultures
Russia

4. Russia is officially know both as Russian and the russian Federation. It is a country in northern Eurasia
(Europe and Asia together). It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. Russia shares
land borders with the following countries (from northwest to southeast): Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, Turkey,
and the United States.

6. Russia is well-known for birches.
Birch is considered to be the symbol
of Russia. There are lots of lyrical
songs about birches, Russia,
peoples’ feelings.

7. A young girl is also often
associated with a birch tree,
a tree is often compared
with a girl too.
We have different pet
names for birches used in
songs, poems, etc.

8. Languages

9. Russian Culture

10. Music

11. Music
Yury
Bashmet
Mstislav
Rastropovic
Dmitry
Khvorostovsky
Lubov
Kazarnovskayay
Piotr
Tchaikovsky

12. folk
music
jazz
bands

13. young
people
study
at music
schools

14. a favourite past time activity –
to play the guitar for / with
friends, family
a popular hobby

15. A popular annual song writers’ outdoor festival

16. the band from
my home town
was
a Grammy
nominee

17. Ballet

18. Russian ballet
the Kirov Ballet company (now known as the Mariinsky Ballet)
and the Bolshoy company are two world-renowned Russian
ballet companies that tour the world.

19. Matilde Kshesinskaya
the prima ballerina
of the Emperor’s
Theater

20. world-famous
Anna Pavlova

21. 'The Dying Swan' – Anna Pavlova’s masterpiece

22. Sergey Diagilev, the founder of
'Ballets Russes'
Vaclav Nizhinsky
the scene from 'The Firebird'
Vaclav
Nizinsky,
the soloist

23. Rudolf Nouriev

24. Mikhail
Baryshnikov

25. Nickolay
Tziskaridze

26. George
Balanchin

28. Uliana
Lopatkina
Natalia
Osipova

29. Diana Vyshneva
Diana
Vishneva
Polina Simeonova

30. Ekaterina Maksimova
and
Vladimir
Vasilyev
The Bolshoi
Theater
soloists

31. dancing
at the high school
graduation party

32. Literature

33. LiteratureAlexander
Poushkin
Anton Chekhov
Fyedor
Dostoevsky
Leo
Tolstoy

34. Fine Art

39. Cinematography

40. Cinema
Sergey
Eizenshtein
Nikita
Mikhalkov
Alexander
Soukourov
Larissa
Shepitko

42. Theater

43. The Bolshoi
Theater

45. our
school theater

46. Moscow

47. places of interest

48. Moscow metro

49. Moscow parks