#Alexander Trifonov

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Piero della Francesca, Federico da Montefeltro, 1473–1475

Alexander Trifonov, 15th century portrait Piero della Francesca, 2022

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Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Piano Concerto No 2 in B major

Daniil Trifonov, piano

London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev conductor

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hellur! it’s me in my little house. who are your favourite musicians?? (classical or otherwise)

OMG OMG OMG I LOVE THIS QUESTION!!!

composers:

alexander scriabin

fryderyk chopin

maurice ravel

takashi yoshimatsu (this guy is still alive!!!)

sergei rachmaninoff

franz liszt

austin wintory (he’s alive too!!)

pianists:

krystian zimerman

vladimir sofronitsky

anatol ugorski

mitsuko uchida

murray perahia

daniil trifonov

yunchan lim

other classical musicians:

hilary hahn (violin)

mischa maisky (cello)

yo-yo ma (cello)

nobuya sugawa (saxophone)

non-classical: ichiko aoba, malice mizer, laufey (sometimes)

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Journalists at Cherta Media investigated the role of Russian “football [soccer] hooligans” in the invasion of Ukraine, focusing on the so-called Española detachment. After reorganizing themselves from a neo-Nazi brawling community into a “private military company” active in occupied Donetsk, Española started recruiting new combatants in February 2023. The group is even doing outreach to children in Donetsk. Ilya Khanin and Alexey Trifonov act as its main “humanitarian wing,” and they recently helped create a boys’ soccer team in Horlivka named after Española with a pirate mascot, modeled on the real group’s skull-and-crossbones iconography. Meduza summarizes Cherta Media’s report about the history of soccer hooliganism in Russia, the authorities’ efforts to “tame” these violent groups, and why men in this neo-Nazi community are now going to Ukraine to join the Kremlin’s “de-Nazification” campaign.

A study by scholars at the Higher School of Economics in 2020 breaks down Russian soccer fans into four groups: okolofutbolshchiki (near-soccer fans, the most active and aggressive of the bunch), ultras (also aggressive, but more about pyrotechnics and demonstrations at the stadium itself), hooligans (less aggressive, as their fights are usually limited to stadiums and bars), and ordinary fans (kuzmichi).

Cherta Media’s report offers insights into why Russian soccer hooligans have taken up arms in Ukraine. For example, one source said many of these young men didn’t support the February invasion immediately, but the subsequent global anti-Russian backlash changed their perception of the war, convincing them that Russian civilization itself, not just the state, is at stake.

Extremism expert and SOVA Center director Alexander Verkhovsky says Russia’s soccer culture didn’t start out engulfed in right-wing politics but gradually developed in this direction beginning in the mid-1990s. (He acknowledges, however, that the fans’ frequent embrace of violence and xenophobia made them a “natural reservoir” for the far-right.) According to historian Nikolai Mitrokhin, Russia’s earlier soccer-fan movement wasn’t about politics so much as young men trying to assert themselves through force. Mitrokhin argues that there’s a layer of young men eager to prove their manliness in battle in both Russia and Ukraine. In the latter country, he says, the soccer-fan groups became one of the most valuable parts of the army, in particular for the Azov battalion. Ironically, many of the neo-Nazis now fighting against each other in Ukraine existed somewhat harmoniously before 2014, says Mitrokhin.

Researchers at InformNapalm previously connected Española’s leader, Stanislav Orlov, to the Donbas Volunteers Union, which then Kremlin adviser Vladislav Surkov reportedly helped create in one of his many efforts to orchestrate separatist activity in the Donbas. Cherta Media points out that the Russian authorities have attempted repeatedly over the past two decades to “tame” hardcore soccer fans, apparently hoping to use them as muscle to keep in check Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition. (Vladimir Zhirinovsky tried it in the late 1990s, the Nashi youth movement used soccer fans as security guards in the 2000s, and even the FSB allegedly ordered the creation of the All-Russian Association of Fans.)

Even the December 2010 Manezhnaya Square riots didn’t halt the presidential administration’s campaign to domesticate Russia’s soccer hooligans, but the Kremlin finally had a change of heart following Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Revolution and especially after Russian soccer fans instigated mass brawls with English fans at the 2016 UEFA Euro tournament in France. In 2017, Russia introduced its “Fan ID” pass system, alienating many fans and making it difficult for fans with criminal records to gain entry to stadiums.

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The Actor

Alexander Trifonov

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Tvardovskij 50 years later, poet who published Solzenycin

Tvardovskij 50 years later, poet who published Solzenycin

(by Paolo Petroni) (ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 16 – Poet much loved in Russia at the time for his veristic poems rich in humors and popular notes Aleksandr Trifonovic Tvardovskij, whose fifty years since his death in 1971 fall on 18 December , today perhaps he is remembered in the West above all as the editor in the fifties and then again in the sixties of the magazine “ Novi mir ” (New World) who…

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More of the paintings of the Palisandre Drawing-Room of Her Majesty at the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo In the Palisandre Drawing-Room of the Empress, there was a multitude of paintings, watercolours, pastels and prints. Most of the paintings were hung along two particular walls - the wall leading to the Lilac Cabinet and the wall leading to the Maple Living-Room. The two most well-known of these paintings still reside with GMZ Tsarskoe Selo and have recently been reframed with recreated wooden frames to match the originals which were lost during the Second World War. Gosfond (The State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund in Russia) has a wealth of a collection that spans the entire country with a range of objects ranging from drawings, photographs, sculpture, paintings, portraits, miniatures, vases, etc. GMZ Pavlovsk is the major keeper of what was evacuated from the Alexander Palace during the war. In its collection is 1,078 items which vary from paintings, fabric hangings from the rooms, sculpture, art glass, etc. Of these, I was able to find six paintings which up until 1941 hung on the walls of the Palisandre Drawing-Room of Her Majesty. From the 1928 Catalog on the Alexander Palace-Museum (Furnishings) by I. Yakovlev and translated generously by Stephen R. de Angelis (available via www.bookemon.com), are the titles that correspond to these ten paintings: "The Annunciation." Inscription: "Ave Maria Grazia Plena." Granitsch, S. Circa. 1895. "Madonna and Child." Thumann, P. German School. Date Unknown. "Portrait (waist-high) of the Princess Helena Victoria - cousin of Alexandra Feodorovna. Copy from Swoboda, J." Kobervein, Terell G. Circa. 1897. "Portrait of Alexei Nikolaevich in his youth." Trifonov, I. Member of the Saint Petersburg Painting School and the Academy of the Arts from 1866. Circa. 1906. "Child's Head." Makovskii, K.E. (1839-1915). Russian School. Date Unknown. "Old Boyarin." Pelevin, I. Russian School. Date Unknown. "Atrium at the last sunbeams." Bakalowicz, St. VI. (1857-1928). Russian School. Circa. 1896. "Spanish Scene." Gallegos, J. Italian School. Circa. 1899. "Monastery Hospital." Topham, Frank. W.W. Date Unknown. "The Interior view of the Cathedral in Seville." Gallegos, J. Italian School. Circa. 1898. ________________________________________________________________ Please enjoy these images, and If you’d like to share them elsewhere, you can download them yourself and if you do so, PLEASE remember to credit the institution/news source/author/photographer - in this case Gosfond, GMZ Tsarskoe Selo, GMZ Pavlovsk, V.I. Yakovlev, and Stephen R. de Angelis, appropriately! Thank-you. ________________________________________________________________ Sources: Gosfond (State Museum Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia) GMZ Tsarskoe Selo (Tsarskoe Selo State Museum Reserve) GMZ Pavlovsk (Pavlovsk State Museum Reserve) ”The Alexander Palace in Detskoe Selo,” - V.I. Yakovlev. Circa. 1927 (Republished in 1928), translated by Stephen R. de Angelis. Link of courtesy:   www.goskatalog.ru https://www.bookemon.com/book-profile/yakovlev-the-alexander-palace-1927/545267 Also, if anyone is interested, this is the original text which Mr. de Angelis translated from, which is free for download via this website: http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/42498-yakovlev-v-i-aleksandrovskiy-dvorets-muzey-v-detskom-sele-ubranstvo-vmesto-kataloga-detskoe-selo-1928#mode/grid/page/27/zoom/1 (This is the republished catalogue, Circa. 1928)

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Franz Kafka, Alexander Trifonov

ABOUT THE ARTIST Alexander Trifonov was born in 1975 in Moscow. Studied at moscow polygraphic institute. He received an education in design and worked with Moscow theaters since early 90-s. Since 1998 he is working in Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and also creates designs for magazines and art books. A member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, he exhibits his works in many group and individual exhibitions every year. In 2005 a book about the artist with his art, articles and comments has been printed in Moscow, is a noted follower of the modern avant-guard art concept known as receptualism. “To be a painter for me is to create my own world”, says Alexander Trifonov. “And we can only acknowledge he has what it takes – everything he creates has consistency and originality of the artist. You can’t take his world for someone else’s”, says Evgeny Rein, a poet. Select personal exhibitions: • “End of ideologies”, At Kashirka gallery, Moscow (February 1999) • “Love to a Bottle”, A3 gallery, Moscow (January 2000) • “Our Street”, At Kashirka gallery, Moscow (October 2001) • “Bottlefly”, A3 gallery, Moscow (March 2002) • “New century”, “Centaur” gallery (May 2003) with the sculptor Dmitry Tugarinov • “Bolero”, A3 gallery, Moscow (August 2003) • “On Stage of Eternity” in the Russian Academy of Arts (September 2005) • ”Shostakovich. Bolt ”, A3 Gallery, Moscow (April 2006) • Exhibition in the Theatr na Taganke (November 2006) • ”Our Street -100”, State Literature Museum, Moscow (March 2008) • ”Corner stone”, Art Gallery Na Solyanke, Moscow (June-July 2009) • ”The window”, Gallery "Chistie prudi", Moscow (2012) • “Windows” with Miloš Prekop gallery Aircraft, Bratislava (2014) • "In parallel' in the Open Club Gallery, Moscow (2015) Select group exhibitions: • “Young Russia”, Moscow and New York (1997) • Auction Drouot-Richelieu, Paris (1997) • “Anti-Soviet exhibition, dedicated to the 80 years of the Great October”, Moscow (November 1997) • “Contemporary Russia” Jersey City /USA/ (1998) • “International Art Biennale Malta” (2003) • ”Re-cept Triumvirate” with Igor Snegur and Vitaly Kopachev, A3 Gallery, Moscow (December 2006) • ”Three stars in A3 Gallery” with Igor Snegur and Vitaly Kopachev, A3 Gallery, Moscow (December 2007) • Exhibition dedicated 130 years Kazimir Malevich, Nemchinovka (2008) • Group exhibitions of contemporary moscow artists, A3 Gallery, Moscow (2008-2012) • Makek Gallery in Croatia Rab/Zagreb (June 2010) • «Anticipation of our future» Bratislava, Nitra, (Slovakia, oktober 2010); Porto sant'Elpidio (Italy, 2011) • «Creative environment» Central House of Artists, Moscow (2010) • PEOPLE-metr Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland (2011/12) • «Time of wanderings East West» Central House of Artists, Moscow (2012) • "Kladensky salon" Kladno (Czech Rep. 2012) • «White+Blue+Red» Trnava, Bratislava (Slovakia 2011/12) Shagal gallery in Ostrava (Czech Rep. 2013) • PEOPLE-metr-2013 Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary (2013) • "Bijela. Plava. Crvena" gallery Milotić. Pula (Croatia, 2014) • «Other Reality» Central House of Artists, Moscow (2015) • «From Avantgarde to Avantgarde» Museum of Fine Arts in Saransk (2015) and in Togliatti (2016)

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Franz-Kafka/324439/3866041/view

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The actor - Alexander Trifonov

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a list of russian lgbt authors 

Russia’s Gay Literature and Culture: the Impact of the October Revolution by Simon Karlinsky

gogol??? 

alexei apukhtin (poet/classmate + lover of tchaikovsky)

polyxena soloviova (symbolist poet, “shared her life w natalia manaseina, the wife of a well known scholar who left her husband to be soloviova’s lover”)

People of the 1890s by Alexander Amfiteatrov (has a lesbian banker and a gay decadent poet)

kuzmin!!!!

lydia zinovieva annibal: “thirty three freaks” and “the tragic zoo” 

nikolai kliuev + his lover Sergei Esenin: “Charming Pines” + “Brotherly Songs”

Viacheslav ivanov

Marina tsvetaeva (poet!)

Sergei auslender (short stories)

riurik ivnev (poet “whose obsessive theme was a dream of being burned or singed by a male lover”)

Yevdokia Nagrodskaya (”trashy bestsellers, whose 1911 whodunit At the Bronze Door revolved around the question of which of the three amle protagonists would turn out to be gay”)

Sophia Parnok (poet) “Music” and “In a Hushed Voice”

 They've cut a hole in the deep   dense blue of the ice:   a breathing space for big fish and little,   water for bringers of buckets,   a way out for a weary traveler   if she and life turn out after all   to be traveling different roads   and she has nowhere to go.   1931   I pardon all your sins--   but two I can't abide:   You read poems in silence   and kiss aloud.   So sin, blossom, be merry--   but take my advice:   a kiss, my darling, is not for the ear,   and music is not for the eyes.   1931 --translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler

Post-Stalin: 

Yevgeny Kharitonov (fiction)

Gennady Trifonov (poetry)

David Dar

Vera Panova

Edward Limonov

Venedikt Erofeev’s Moscow to the end of the line “an odyssey of an alcoholic who manages to get drunk at every subway station in moscow by consuming anything from champagne to furniture polish. This is accompanied by a stream of consciousness about the dishonesty and secretiveness of soviet society”

Artists

Somov

Kuzma Petrov Vodkin (male nudes)

Sergei Lemeshev (tenor)

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The first Altai ballet epic "Kan-Kerede" (Кан-Кереде)

Premier on December 6 (Altai Republic, Gorno-Altaysk) and December 16 (Altai Territory, Barnaul) with choreography by Aykhan and Ak-Ai Shinzhin, music by Alexander Trifonov and set design by Alexei Dmitriev.

Soloists:

Kan-Kerede / Bayaru-Kys: Ak-Ai Shinzhina (Gorno-Altaysk, Moscow)

Bayir-Uul: Christian Yasinsky (Moscow),

Kazyr-Kaan: Ayhan Shinzhin (Moscow, Gorno-Altaysk)

Kaychi: Maxim Borkovsky (Barnaul)

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Alexander Scriabin - Piano Concerto

Daniil Trifonov

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SEGA - Humankind from B2Y Productions on Vimeo.

Vice President /TV Producer: Fabrice Brovelli Creative: Arnaud Assouline Creative: Benjamin Le Breton Executive Producer: Baptiste Chassaing Producer: Maxime Bouyer Line Producer: Alexander Kenanov UPM (BG): Ivan Ivanov

Director: Romain Chassing DOP: Matias Boucard Production Designer: DavidDirectorBersanetti Art Director: Kristian Lekov

1st AD FR: Marie Le Grevellec 1st AD FR: Yana Viktorova 2nd AD: Velina Shtarbakova 3rd AD: Aliki Nakopulu

1st Camera Assistant: François Vigon 2nd Camera Assistant: Vladimir Velichkov Movie Operator: Myron Mance Video Controll: Georgi Sirakov Data Manager: Bogomil Georgiev Camera Trainee: Yoan Evstatiev BTC: Ivo Baldzhiev

Production Coordinator (BG): Iren Mashova Production Assistant (BG) Elitsa Fileva Chaperone: Atanas Atanasov

Gaffer: Pavel Mitov Electritian: Ivaylo Angelov Electritian: Penko Ivanov Electritian: Tsvetan Trifonov Electritian: Konstantin Bodurov Electritian: Latchezar Lazarov Electritian: Ismail Said Salton

Key Grip: Petar Stoyanov Grip: Martin Velichkov Grip: Vasil Velichkov Grip: Dimitar Petrov Grip: Marchelo Vladimirov

Casting Director: Mila Parusheva Casting Assitant: Anelia Shaneva Crowd Marshall: Mihail Petrov

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Tvardovsky 50 years later, the poet who published Solzenycin

Tvardovsky 50 years later, the poet who published Solzenycin

Poet much loved in Russia at the time for his veristic poems full of humors and popular notes Aleksandr Trifonovic Tvardovskij, whose fifty years since his death in 1971 fall on 18 December, today perhaps he is remembered in the West especially as the director over the years Fifties and then again in the Sixties of the magazine “ Novi mir ” (New World) which fought for artistic freedom in the…

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PSYKHE nominated for the @camgarooaward / category EMOTIONS Es freut mich sehr, daß dieser bezaubernde Film mit mir in einer Hauptrolle von der hochkarätigen Jury ausgewählt wurde. https://www.camgaroo.com/videowettbewerb-camgaroo-award/camgaroo-award-2020/nominierte/ "Ein kleiner Junge rettet einen verletzten Schmetterling. Die Seele des ätherischen Geschöpfs – „PSYKHE”, das griechische Wort für Seele – begleitet ihn danach durch den Rest seines Lebens, durch gute und schlechte Zeiten, bis zu dem Tag an dem sein Enkel eine Raupe findet. PSYKHE ist der erste CO2 neutral zertifizierte Kurzfilm, gemastert für Dolby Cinema, der Welt." Regie: Joshua Krull / Produzent: Victor Schwarz - Filmhochschule Babelsberg Writer: Vera Mark Producer: Victor Schwarz Co-Producer: Michael Stadler DOP: Alexander Kohn Gaffer: @Sebastian Ganschow Jannis Vieting Fabian M Brucker Grip: Jörn Kloos, Felix Mujkanovic, Lina Marzin, Henrik Weimar Gerard Fass 1st AD: Roman Salzwedel 2nd AD: Tilmann Morlang 2nd 2nd AD: Mario Dietel Music: Georg Mausolf - Music For Media - Music For Media Sound Supervisor: Ingolf Christopher Facius Location Sound: Oscar Zöllner Felix Zöllner Production Design: Zoë Gillies VFX Supervisor: Yannik Heß und sein ganzes Team! Unsere Executive und Associate Producer: Sven Rohde Christiane Laubisch Unser Cast: Michael Marwitz Sylvia Mayer Marie Förster Elena Halangk Mick Gabler, Ben Gillies, Mika Binzen, Freddy Boquoi, Cassidy Rochford, Steffen Happel Franzi Fockel, Johanna Ross Making-Of: Sergej Trifonov, Artsiom Haroshka Set Fotos: Pascal Siegert Paul Rogel Patrick Rosenhagen Andy Wiezorek Make-Up: Anne Regensburger Paula Groll, Concetta Di Nardo Mega Catering: Patrick Langohr und seine vielen Helfer! Und viele viele viele Mehr, die ich hier leider gar nicht alle markieren kann!!! Vielen Dank auch an die ganzen Unterstützer und Sponsoren, allen voran: Riccarda Caiati von ARRI Rental EU ARRI Media Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Wolf Rotor Film Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg Neumann&Müller Veranstaltungstechnik Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (hier: München, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHxxj2dpJIO/?igshid=3hvic2qtusb5

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Gitarist, Alexander Trifonov

“To be a painter for me is to create my own world”, says Alexander Trifonov. “And we can only acknowledge he has what it takes – everything he creates has consistency and originality of the artist. You can’t take his world for someone else’s”

https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Gitarist/324439/175956/view