Articles
People, customs and the memory of place
Culture & Traditions 2 min read
Eleven women followed the condemned Decembrists to Siberia, giving up the lives they knew. Two of them — Ekaterina Trubetskaya and Maria Volkonskaya — spent years in…
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
At the regional museum you can see design sketches of the Alar datsan of 1890, the first Buddhist temple built in the Angara region.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
The synagogue was recreated from documents and photographs of a 1905 building in Zima. Work on the two exhibitions took almost two years.
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The Decembrist Museum and the art museum showed the life of Irkutsk merchants at the Sukachev Estate, continued at the Volkonsky Estate.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
Works by artists whose lives are linked with Irkutsk and Baikal, accompanied by lines from Vampilov and Rozhdestvensky.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
More than 200 works in three halls of the art museum, from the 19th-century “View of Irkutsk from Across the Angara” to contemporary artists.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
A purification rite at the datsan, the “Sagaalganai Yokhor” festival with national cuisine and concerts by Buryat ensembles.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
The building, a historical and cultural monument, has a new roof with a spire, a renewed stage and checked acoustics.
Culture & Traditions 1 min read
Dmitry Bertman’s production was staged in the open air, with the 17th-century wooden fort as its set.
