13:34 Living legend
To celebrate her 80th birthday on Sunday, the Bolshoi has concocted a glittering festival of dance that commenced Wednesday with three nights of performances on the theater’s New Stage and ending Sunday with a gala evening at the Kremlin Palace.

13:28 The complete Pasternak
The collected works of the poet and author Boris Pasternak, published for the first time by his son Yevgeny, gathers together a wealth of known and new material, and offers the most complete picture yet of a 20th century literary giant.

13:09 A Tale of Two Operas
The international reputations of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky (known in the Soviet period, and outside Russia today, as the Kirov) opera houses survived the Soviet period relatively unscathed.