Horror film aficionados can wrap themselves in the dark night of a festival this weekend as a gathering of foreign stars comes to Moscow for the Kaplya, or Drop, horror film festival aimed at boosting the local fright movie industry. Horror film aficionados can wrap themselves in the...

... songs, Sviridov’s Kursk Songs and Stravinsky‘s The Wedding. Conservatory Great Hall. 7 p.m. Monday, February 13th Alexei Parshin (organ) performs Bach, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Liszt, Brahms and others. Conservatory Small Hall. 7 p.m. MT Pick Festival Conservatory Great Hall: Khibla Gerzmava (soprano) and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater Orchestra perform Verdi, Puccini, Richard Strauss and Ravel. Conservatory Great Hall. 7 p.m. Ksenia Knorre (piano) performs Mozart...

... temperature at the site must be controlled due to the particularly warm Moscow winter. "We have been experimenting with this work for years. Many of the architects and sculptors behind this project are renowned in their fields and have won awards at festivals in both Canada and France," Darya Lisitsyna, art director of Moroz City, told The Moscow Times. "We decided it was time to really showcase the skills and talents of our architects and sculptors in Russia," she said. Despite the...

Moscow is a Chekhov lover's paradise. A paradise, that is, unless you are an English-speaking expat. While the city is a gold mine of world class theater, flush with companies and festivals performing the great writer's works, his plays are almost never performed in English. For foreigners who lack the language skills needed to fully appreciate a Russian language play, this can be torturous. Moscow...

... The Mariinsky Ballet (1 Teatralnaya Ploshchad; +7 812-326-4141 ; mariinsky.ru ) is also doing very interesting work. It’s not a small outfit, it’s true, but nonetheless there are always new shows coming out there. They also have several festivals with an international flavor — including the eponymous Mariinsky Festival and the vast White Nights festival, which goes on for several months and sees a great number of foreign dancers, new ballets and a vast range of productions. In...

Pure evil reigns in Alexander Sokurov's new film "Faust," which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival and starts screening in Russian movie theaters on Feb. 9. Pure evil reigns in Alexander Sokurov's new film "Faust," which won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival and starts screening in Russian movie...

... (guitar) and his jazz band. Igor Butman Club Na Chistykh Prudakh. 8:30 p.m. Karl Khlamkin and OgneOpasnOrchestra: folk rock. Kitaisky Lyotchik Dzhao Da. 11 p.m. Kimbata: music of Congo. Project O.G.I. 10 p.m. Latte: jazz. Cool Train. 11 p.m. MT Pick Festival Leo Records : new jazz. Arkady Shilkloper (French horn), Alexei Kruglov (saxophone), Oleg Yudanov (percussion, drums), Vtoroye Priblizheniye Trio and Slava Ganelin (piano). Dom. 8 p.m. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya’s Cabaret. Cool Train. 9 p...

... grenade exploded, the Irkutsk region Investigative Committee said Monday in a statement . Ivanova succumbed to her injuries in a hospital 10 days later, on the morning of Jan. 11. The grenade, its pin removed and set to detonate, was hidden inside a festively decorated mitten within the box, Life News reported . The suspect, Oleg Safarov, 34, is believed to have sent the bomb because of a personal quarrel with the victim. He was arrested upon returning home from a trip to India. Life News identified...

... Grishayeva and Vyacheslav Manucharov and bands including Eros, B2 and Zveri. Dozhd TV said Monday that its report had prompted an internal Rosatom investigation, which established that the organizers spent “only” 12.5 million rubles on the festivities. Claiming credit for the investigation on his Twitter feed, Rogozin wrote that the allegations were “confirmed in part,” with Kaas apparently being hired to mark the 20th anniversary of the company’s founding rather than...

... (violin), Yury Tkanov (viola), Alexander Korchagin (cello) with Mikhail Voskresensky (piano) perform Schumann and Brahms. Conservatory Small Hall. Feb. 10, 7 p.m. Garri Grodberg (organ) performs Bach. Conservatory Small Hall. Feb. 11, 7 p.m. MT Pick Festival Conservatory Great Hall: Khibla Gerzmava (soprano) and the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater Orchestra in concert. Conservatory Great Hall. Feb. 13, 7 p.m.

... electronic. China Town Cafe. 9 p.m. Jose Antonio Rodriguez: Flamenco guitar virtuoso. Dom Muzyki Svetlanov Hall. 7 p.m. Kassandra: alternative. FAQ Cafe. 8 p.m. Open Blues Jam. Roadhouse small hall. 6 p.m. Rock Concert. Schwein. 6 p.m. Roma VPR and Festival Vsego Na Svete: reggae. Kitaisky Lyotchik Dzhao Da. 9:30 p.m. Salsa Party. Roadhouse. 6:30 p.m. Silya and Vykhod rock. Project O.G.I. 10 p.m. Monday, February 13th Billboard: cover band. Radio City Bar. 9 p.m. Happy Monday: Region 77, Santim...

... purchased by distributors in Russia "relatively well." A Moscow premiere is scheduled for March and the film will begin a run at least in St. Petersburg theaters that same month. According to producer Olga Agrafenina, several foreign film festivals have expressed interest in the film. If you're at all interested in Anton Chekhov, Russian literature or Russian culture in general, my biased opinion is that you won't want to miss "The Admirer" when it comes, as they say, to a theater...

... Merzlikin, Kristina Kuzmina and Tatyana Cherkasova. Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya Thurs. to Wed. at 5 p.m. Faust (2011): The final installment of Alexander Sokurov’s psychological tetralogy about human nature won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. 35MM Thurs. at noon and 7 p.m., Fri. at 9:20 p.m., Sat. at 5:30 and 10:20 p.m., Sun. at 11:15 a.m. and 8 p.m., Mon. at 9 p.m., Tues. at 4:30 p.m., Wed. at 4:40 p.m. In German; Russian subtitles. Oktyabr Thurs. to Wed. at 1:10, 6 and 10:50...