Live Performance in the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre [Part 1]
The Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre:
Riga Russian Theatre Promotion
Unfortunately I could only record part of it. This was recorded on 22 Nov 2011 in Riga, Latvia
Mother's Day at Riga Russian Theatre
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INVITATION for Marta's Ball Riga. 16. 11. 2019 ПРИГЛАШАЕМ на Бал Марты в Ригу! Martas Balle Rìgā!
16 NOVEMBER 2019
INITING ALL to
BEST BALTIC CAUSE EVENT
2018
MR X INVITES YOU TO THE CONCERT and
5TH ANNUAL MARTA'S CHARITY MASQUERADE BALL
16.NOVEMBER 2019
In COOPERATION with ROTARY JURMALA CLUB
Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian theatre
GUEST OF HONOUR SERGEJ JEGERS
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TICKETS 35 EUR
THIS IS CHARITABLE EVENT,AND PROCEEDS WILL BE USED TO PURCHASE SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR RĪGA PRIMARY SCHOOL “VALODIŅA”, FOR CHILDREN WITH LANGUAGE DISABILITIES.
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Program includes:
- Guests welcome with Rigas Balzams drinks
- GALA CONCERT Opening by countertenor Sergejs Jegers, holder of Order of Three Stars award of the Republic of Latvia, and Marta's Ball patron since 2015.
- Gala concert with opera stars of the Latvian Opera and surprise from the artists of Mikhail Chekhov Russian Theatre, Riga,
- Live music dancing
- Concert with Latvian and International opera, jazz and pop artists
- Charity lottery with prizes from companies like GRAND PALACE HOTEL, FREY WILLE, KEKAVA AVOTS, NOBLE WINE, RIGAS BALZAMS, and many other.
- Silent auction
- Entertainment and surprises
- During the evening bars and cafes of the theatre offer food and drinks with special prices.
- Disco with DJs
- After 2.00 am, possibility to continue evening in one of the best night-clubs of Riga, «Friends». VIP zone will be available for Marta's Ball guests.
Ball starts at 19:30.
Address: The Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre, Kalku 16.
Maxim Busel. About Me Video
Maxim Busel is a prominent young Latvian stage and film actor. Best known for his solo performance as Tim Tuni in The Legend of the Pianist. 1900. For this role, was nominated for Best Actor 2018 at “The Night of the Artist” award, the highest recognition in Latvian theatre and also a contender for Best Performance 2018.
From 2015 til 2018, four years in a row, won the People’s choice award as Best Young Actor at the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theater awards ceremony.
A versatile actor, singer, musician and dancer, Maxim has leading roles at the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre in various genres. He is also involved in numerous projects as a performer, composer, songwriter. Fluent in English, Russian (native) and Latvian and, as Max says about his French, ’un petite peu’.
Born in Riga, Latvia. Early on, Maxim pursued a musical education as a choir conductor and pianist, having graduated with honors was granted the opportunity to study at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Maxim’s passion for acting prevailed and he left school a year early to begin his theatrical studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture. He was accepted into the exclusive Russian theater course, and enrolled at once in the 2nd year of studies, while simultaneously completing his secondary school education. He graduated the Latvian Academy of Culture with a Bachelor of Arts in Stage and Film Acting in 2014.
In 2015 Maxim Busel was nominated for the highest cinema award in Latvia, the “Big Kristaps” as Actor of the Year for the leading role “Maxim” in the short film Dance of Death directed by Vlad Kovalev.
In 2019 he was lead in Ukranian TV-series Zoya as Anton, the Prime Minister’s rich son, directed by Pavel Tupik (RU/UA).
In 2018-2019 played a bit role as the Young Jean Weiner (French actor, composer and pianist) in the American feature film Paris Song by Jeff Vespa (USA)
Also in 2018 he had a leading role as Nikolay Pandchenko, a famous singer, rock star in the Ukranian TV film Chicken by Roman Brovko (UA). Maxim was also a composer of the soundtrack for this project.
Leading role of ‘Maxim’ in the short film On One Breath (2018-2019) based on Jean Cocteau’s play The Ghost of Marseille directed by Maria de Valukhoff (RU).
Supporting role of Merkutio in the full-length drama Romeo n’ Juliet by Maris Martinsons (LV/LT) in 2011.
Maxim currently resides in Riga and is open to new, unique projects in Europe and enjoys working abroad.
Maxim BUSEL. (About-Me-Video) 2019
Maxim Busel is a prominent young Latvian stage and film actor. Best known for his solo performance as Tim Tuni in The Legend of the Pianist. 1900. For this role, was nominated for Best Actor 2018 at “The Night of the Artist” award, the highest recognition in Latvian theatre and also a contender for Best Performance 2018.
From 2015 til 2018, four years in a row, won the People’s choice award as Best Young Actor at the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theater awards ceremony.
A versatile actor, singer, musician and dancer, Maxim has leading roles at the Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre in various genres. He is also involved in numerous projects as a performer, composer, songwriter. Fluent in English, Russian (native) and Latvian and, as Max says about his French, ’un petite peu’.
Born in Riga, Latvia. Early on, Maxim pursued a musical education as a choir conductor and pianist, having graduated with honors was granted the opportunity to study at the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Maxim’s passion for acting prevailed and he left school a year early to begin his theatrical studies at the Latvian Academy of Culture. He was accepted into the exclusive Russian Theater course, and enrolled at once in the 2nd year of studies, while simultaneously completing his secondary school education. He graduated the Latvian Academy of Culture with a Bachelor of Arts in Stage and Film Acting in 2014.
In 2015 Maxim Busel was nominated for the highest cinema award in Latvia, the “Big Kristaps” as Actor of the Year for the leading role “Maxim” in the short film Dance of Death directed by Vlad Kovalev.
In 2019 he was lead in Ukrainian TV-series Zoya as Anton, the Prime Minister’s rich son, directed by Pavel Tupik (RU/UA).
In 2018-2019 played a bit role as the Young Jean Weiner (French actor, composer and pianist) in the American feature film Paris Song by Jeff Vespa (USA)
Also in 2018 he had a leading role as Nikolay Pandchenko, a famous singer, rock star in the Ukrainian TV film Chicken by Roman Brovko (UA). Maxim was also a composer of the soundtrack for this project.
Leading role of ‘Maxim’ in the short film On One Breath (2018-2019) based on Jean Cocteau’s play The Ghost of Marseille directed by Maria de Valukhoff (RU).
Supporting role of Mercutio in the full-length drama Romeo n’ Juliet by Maris Martinsons (LV/LT) in 2011.
Maxim currently resides in Riga and is open to new, unique projects in Europe and enjoys working abroad.
IUGTE Anton Chekhov Project
The rehearsal fragment by Russian director Vladimir Scheblikin (Moscow, Russia) with actor Paal Viken Bakke (Norway). International course The Actor's Technique for professional actors and directors on methods of work with actors based on A.Chekhov's playwriting organized by IUGTE in 2001 in Riga, Latvia. The final work demonstration of the fragments from the plays Ivanoff, The Seagull, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchad was shown on the stage of Riga Small Theatre.
Program created under the artistic guidance of Sergei Ostrenko.
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Running to Stand Still: The Structure of Agency in Russian Public Policy
On Friday, December 15th, the Jordan Center hosted a lecture entitled “Running to Stand Still: The Structure of Agency in Russian Public Policy” with Samuel Greene (King’s College London). This event was part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
Observers could be forgiven for thinking that there is little or no policy in Russian politics, that it is merely an elite game of rent-seeking and autocratic management. That narrative, while mostly true in broad terms, masks a great deal of ‘mundane’ policymaking, and few areas of social and economic activity have escaped at least some degree of reform in recent years. This article takes a closer look at three such reform attempts – involving higher education, housing and regional policy – in an attempt to discern broad patterns governing how and when the state succeeds or fails in its policymaking. The evidence suggests that the tendency of both masses and mid-level elites to rely on informality – usually interpreted in the literature as an agent-led response to deinstitutionalization and the breakdown of structure – acts as the strongest brake on state power. More than a quarter-century into the post-Soviet period, the article argues, these seemingly transient patterns of action and reaction have in fact become entrenched, structural elements in Russian politics.
Samuel Greene is Director of the Russia Institute at King`s College London and senior lecturer in Russian politics. Prior to moving to London in 2012, he lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, most recently as director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School, and as deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. His book,Moscow in Movement: Power & Opposition in Putin`s Russia, was published in August 2014 by Stanford University Press. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Evolution of Chess Style #173: Mikhail Tal vs Isaac Boleslavsky : USSR Ch. (1958) · King's Indian
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[Event USSR Championship]
[Site Riga (RUS)]
[Date 1958.01.16]
[EventDate 1958.??.??]
[Round 3]
[Result 0-1]
[White Mikhail Tal]
[Black Isaac Boleslavsky]
[ECO E87]
[WhiteElo ?]
[BlackElo ?]
[PlyCount 102]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 c5
8.g4 Ne8 9.h4 f5 10.gxf5 gxf5 11.exf5 Bxf5 12.Bd3 e4 13.fxe4
Qe7 14.exf5 Qxe3+ 15.Qe2 Qg3+ 16.Kd2 Nc7 17.Qh2 Qxh2+ 18.Rxh2
Nd7 19.Ne4 Kh8 20.Rg2 b5 21.Nf3 bxc4 22.Bxc4 Rab8 23.Rb1 Rxf5
24.Nfg5 Ne5 25.Bb3 c4 26.Bc2 Nxd5 27.Nxd6 Rf6 28.Nf5 Rd8
29.Ke1 Nf4 30.Rg3 Ned3+ 31.Bxd3 Nxd3+ 32.Rxd3 Rxd3 33.Nxg7
Kxg7 34.Ke2 h6 35.Ne4 Re6 36.Rg1+ Rg6 37.Rc1 Rg2+ 38.Nf2 Rd4
39.Kf3 Rg6 40.Ne4 Re6 41.Rg1+ Kf8 42.Rg4 Ra6 43.h5 Ra5 44.Rf4+
Ke7 45.Rg4 Rxh5 46.Kf4 Kf7 47.Ke3 Rd3+ 48.Kf4 Rh2 49.Ke5 Re2
50.Rf4+ Ke7 51.Kf5 Rd4 0-1
Who is Tal?
Mikhail Nekhemyevich Tal (Latvian: Mihails Tāls; Russian: Михаил Нехемьевич Таль, Mikhail Nekhem'evich Tal, pronounced [mʲɪxɐˈiɫ nʲɪˈxʲemʲɪvʲɪtɕ ˈtalʲ]; sometimes transliterated Mihails Tals or Mihail Tal; 9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992)[1] was a Soviet chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
Widely regarded as a creative genius and one of the best attacking players of all time, Tal played in a daring, combinatorial style.[2][3] His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. It has been said that “Every game for him was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem.[4] He was often called Misha, a diminutive for Mikhail, and The magician from Riga. Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games[5] and Modern Chess Brilliancies[6] include more games by Tal than any other player. In addition, Tal was a highly regarded chess writer. He also previously held the record for the longest unbeaten streak (95 games) in competitive chess history, until Ding Liren's 100-game streak from 9 August 2017 to 11 November 2018.[7] [8]
The Mikhail Tal Memorial has been held in Moscow annually since 2006 to honour Tal's memory.
Early years
Tal was born in Riga, Republic of Latvia, into a Jewish family.[9] According to his friend Gennadi Sosonko, his true father was a family friend identified only as Uncle Robert;[9] however, this was vehemently denied by Tal's third wife Angelina.[10]
From the very beginning of his life, Tal suffered from ill health. He learned to read at the age of three, and was allowed to start university studies while only fifteen. At the age of eight, he learned to play chess while watching his father, a doctor and medical researcher.
Shortly thereafter Tal joined the Riga Palace of Young Pioneers chess club. His play was not exceptional at first, but he worked hard to improve. Alexander Koblents began tutoring him in 1949, after which Tal's game rapidly improved, and by 1951 he had qualified for the Latvian Championship. In the 1952 Latvian Championship, Tal finished ahead of his trainer. Tal won his first Latvian title in 1953, and was awarded the title of Candidate Master. He became a Soviet Master in 1954 by defeating Vladimir Saigin in a qualifying match. That same year he also scored his first win over a Grandmaster when Yuri Averbakh lost on time in a drawn position. Tal graduated in Literature from the University of Latvia, writing a thesis on the satirical works of Ilf and Petrov, and taught school in Riga for a time in his early twenties. He was a member of the Daugava Sports Society, and represented Latvia in internal Soviet team competitions.
In 1959 he married 19-year-old Salli Landau, an actress with the Riga Youth Theatre; they divorced in 1970. In 2003, Landau published a biography in Russia of her late ex-husband.
Personality
His first wife, Salli Landau, described Mikhail's personality:
Misha was so ill-equipped for living... When he travelled to a tournament, he couldn't even pack his own suitcase... He didn't even know how to turn on the gas for cooking. If I had a headache, and there happened to be no one home but him, he would fall into a panic: How do I make a hot-water bottle? And when I got behind the wheel of a car, he would look at me as though I were a visitor from another planet. Of course, if he had made some effort, he could have learned all of this. But it was all boring to him. He just didn't need to. A lot of people have said that if Tal had looked after his health, if he hadn't led such a dissolute life... and so forth. But with people like Tal, the idea of if only is just absurd. He wouldn't have been Tal then.[11]
Soviet champion
Tal lived in this house in Riga
Tal first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions ...
Concepts of Russian Moral Philosophy in the Enlightenment
On February 22, 2016, the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU welcomed Tatiana Artemyeva for a lecture on Concepts of Russian Moral Philosophy in the Enlightenment. Artemyeva is a professor at Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia in Department of Theory and History of Culture, as well as a leading researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Moral philosophy in Russia was not a homogeneous theory. Its content, problems, forms, principles, system of authorities and representations depended on the philosophical networks. In her talk Artemyeva will identify three such networks. One of them was the system of academic institutions that included both “visible” and “invisible colleges,” and was connected with the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and Moscow University. Moral problems were studied generally as a part of metaphysics. Thinkers discussed the soul-body problem, the character of moral qualities and the sources of moral ideas. Another network consisted in theologians from Orthodox Church schools, first of all from Kiev and Moscow. Moral problems were discussed in the context of virtues and sins, and the divine origin of the human being. A third network developed within the enlightened noble elite, which was in close agreement with the political elite at that time. This situation determined special aspects of moral philosophy and meant that many moral problems close to political philosophy, legislation, philosophy of history were discussed as moral meditations.
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Riga | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:28 1 Etymology
00:04:05 2 History
00:04:14 2.1 Founding
00:07:31 2.2 Under Bishop Albert
00:11:43 2.3 Hanseatic League
00:12:18 2.4 Holy Roman Empire, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Swedish and Russian Empires
00:17:12 2.5 World War I
00:18:57 2.6 World War II
00:24:24 2.7 21st century
00:25:36 3 Geography
00:25:45 3.1 Administrative divisions
00:27:28 3.2 Climate
00:28:39 4 Government
00:29:37 5 Demographics
00:32:39 5.1 Historic population figures
00:32:55 6 Economy
00:34:09 7 Culture
00:34:18 7.1 Theatres
00:36:11 7.2 World Choir Games
00:37:29 8 Architecture
00:38:07 8.1 Art Nouveau
00:39:59 9 Sports
00:41:10 9.1 Sports clubs
00:45:08 9.2 Sports facilities
00:46:31 9.3 Sports events
00:47:25 10 Transport
00:52:38 11 Universities
00:52:48 12 Notable residents
00:52:57 13 Sister cities
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Riga (; Latvian: Rīga [ˈriːɡa] (listen); Livonian: Rīgõ) is the capital, the largest and primate city of Latvia. With 632,614 inhabitants (2019), it is also the largest city in the three Baltic states, home to one third of Latvia's population and one tenth of the three Baltic states' combined population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava river. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies 1–10 m (3 ft 3 in–32 ft 10 in) above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships and the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).
In 2016, Riga received over 1.4 million visitors. The city is served by Riga International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in the Baltic states. Riga is a member of Eurocities, the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) and Union of Capitals of the European Union (UCEU).
Ada Dialla - An Artist on the Move
On February 10th, 2017 the Jordan Center welcomed Ada Dialla from the Athens School of Fine Arts for a lecture entitled, “An Artist on the Move: Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin and Russian Humanitarianism in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” The event is part of the Occasional series, sponsored by the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU and co-sponsored by the NYU Art History Department.
During the latter part of the “age of imperial humanitarianism” (Michael Barnett) the ethics of care in conjunction with the self image of being a civilized state resulted in the elaboration of humanitarian values and humanitarian activity in Russia. We witness the activity abroad of the Russian Red Cross, the works and pronouncements of leading literary figures, such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev or Garshin, or influential works of art, such as by V. V. Vereshchagin, as well as the role of the press, volunteers, personnel involved in humanitarian aid and initiatives taken by international networks involved with humanitarian assistance. The aim of Dialla’s presentation is to focus on the eminent artist V.V. Vereshchagin and to examine his career and professional mobility around the world in connection with the emergence of humanitarian discourses in Russia during this period. By following his extraordinary traveling and his professional networks she intends to shed light on the transnational and transcontinental dimensions of the rise of Russian humanitarianism.
Dr. Ada Dialla is Associate Professor of European History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts (Athens, Greece). and also teaches European history at the Greek Open University. She had previously taught 19th century European, Russian and Eastern European history at the universities of Crete and Thessaly (Greece). From 2005 until 2009 she was director of the Historical Archives of the University of Athens. Her main research interests are 19th century Russian and Eastern European and European history and politics (with emphasis on transnational history), empire, nationalism, humanitarianism, Russian-Greek Relations, Soviet and Russian history of historiography. Her recent book is entitled Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century. Setting the Precedent, co-authored with A. Heraclides (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015).
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Бары́шников; born January 27, 1948), nicknamed Misha (Russian diminutive of the name Mikhail), is a Russian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in the Soviet Union, often cited alongside Vaslav Nijinsky and Rudolf Nureyev as one of the greatest ballet dancers in history. After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance. After freelancing with many companies, he joined the New York City Ballet as a principal dancer to learn George Balanchine's style of movement. He then danced with the American Ballet Theatre, where he later became artistic director.
Baryshnikov has spearheaded many of his own artistic projects and has been associated in particular with promoting modern dance, premiering dozens of new works, including many of his own. His success as a dramatic actor on stage, cinema and television has helped him become probably the most widely recognized contemporary ballet dancer. In 1977, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe nomination for his work as Yuri Kopeikine in the film The Turning Point. He also had a significant role in the last season of the television series Sex and the City.
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- Socrates
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Riga (; Latvian: Rīga [ˈriːɡa] (listen), Livonian: Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 641,481 inhabitants (2016), it is also the largest city in the three Baltic states, home to one third of Latvia's population and one tenth of the three Baltic states' combined population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies 1–10 m (3 ft 3 in–32 ft 10 in) above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships and the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC).
In 2016, Riga received over 1.4 million visitors. It is served by Riga International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in the Baltic states. Riga is a member of Eurocities, the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) and Union of Capitals of the European Union (UCEU).