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New York, October 26-31, 2004
 
   
Congressman Fred Richmond at the opening of the Festival in the Museum of the City of New York, October 26, 2004  
Poet Andrey
Voznesensky and
Vladimir Mayakovsky’s daughter Pr.Patricia
Thompson with her son at the Festival Tower
Awarding in the Museum of the City of New York,
October 26, 2004
  Vladimir Mayakovsky’s daughter Pr.Patricia Thompson is being interviewed by New York City TV Company. 
         
         
Writer and poet Andrey Bitov at the opening of the Festival in the Museum of the City of New York , October 26, 2004   At “The Young Lady And the Hooligan” screening. Live original accompaniment by the authors: Vladimir Volkov (double-bass), Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (trumpet). Museum of the City of New York , October 26, 2004   Famous American artist Peter Max (on the left) and Russian sculptor Leonid Sokov at the Festival Tower Awarding in the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in New York, October 26, 2004
         
   
Poet Andrey Voznesensky, writer Zoya Boguslavskaya, Festival producer Stas Namin and Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, Kennedy Foundation representative, at the Festival opening reception in the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in New York, October 26, 2004   Sergey Garmonin, General Counsil of the Russian Federation in New York, and Patricia Thompson, poet Mayakovsky’s daughter with her son, at at the Festival opening reception in the General Consulate of the Russian Federation in New York, October 26, 2004.   Cello player Boris Andrianov at the gala concert in Lincoln Centre, October 30, 2004
         
   
Famous opera singer Makvala Kasrashvili (soprano) and Lia Mogilevskaya (piano) at the gala concert in Lincoln Centre, October 30, 2004   Sergey Stadler, virtuoso violin player, at the gala concert in Lincoln Centre, October 30, 2004   Piano player Ekaterina Mechetina at the gala concert in Lincoln Centre.
         
   
Lori Belilove, prima dancer of the Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance at the gala concert   Theatre Row on 42 Street where Festival theatre events took place   Ballet dancers Anastasia Volochkova and Evgeny Ivanchenko at the gala concert in Lincoln Centre, October 30, 2004
         
       
Arthur Mitchell, founder and artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem with the Festival Tower Award; Ekaterina Solovyeva, soloist of Mariinsky Theatre (soprano); Stas Namin; US Festival partner Mathew Rich at the Festival Tower Awarding in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Centre    Andrey Voznesensky, Arthur Mitchell and the dancers of Dance Theatre of Harlem    Ekaterina Solovyeva (soprano) and Andrey Ilyushnikov (tenor), the soloists of Mariinsky Theatre, at the Festival closing reception in Lincoln Centre, October 30, 2004 
         
   
Festival producer Stas Namin, poets Andrey voznesensky and Dmitri Prigov, musician Vladimir Volkov, writer and poet Andrey Bitov, artist Grisha Bruskin after music-poetry performance in Bowery Poetry Club, October 30, 2004   Poet Dmitry Prigov at the music-poetry performance in Bowery Poetry Club, October 30, 2004 
     
         
Poet Andrey Voznesensky at Q&A’s in Theatre Row, October 27, 2004    Andrey Voznesensky at Q&A’s in Theatre Row, October 27, 2004    Writer and esseist Zoya Boguslavskaya at Q&A’s in Theatre Row, October 31, 2004 
         
         
         
         
 
Actress Alla Demidova at her music-poetry night (“Poem Without a Hero” by Anna Akhmatova) in Theatre Row, October 31, 2004
Actor Alexander Filippenko at the literature music night (“From Zoschenko to Akunin”) in Theatre Row, October, 29, 2004
   

At the jazz concert in Carnegy Jazz Club, October 27, 2004. Vladimir Tarasov (drums), Vladimir Volkov (double bass), Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky (trumpet), Andrey Kondakov (piano)

Trumpetist Vyacheslav Gayvoronsky at the concert in Carnegy Jazz Club, October 27, 2004

Drummer Vladimir Tarasov at the concert in Carnegy Jazz Club, October 27, 2004 

 

 
Double-bass player Vladimir Volkov at the concert in Carnegy Jazz Club, October 27, 2004
At the Russian-American theatre performance in PS122 theatre. Xenia Vidyaikina andBarbiesgroup. October 31, 2004

Young Filmmakers’ Forum in School of Visual Arts, October 29, 2004. Participants of the Forum; Stas Namin 

 
Top model Natalia Vodyanova and musicians of the Flowers band Oleg Predtachensky and Oleg Litskevich at Russian Halloween party in Capitol night Club, October 31, 2004
Top model Natalia Vodyanova, her husband and Oleg Predtechensky from the Flowers band at Russian Halloween party in Capitol night Club, October 31, 2004
Top model Natalia Vodyanova, her husband and Oleg Predtechensky from the Flowers band at Russian Halloween party in Capitol night Club, October 31, 2004
 

The Flowers band: Alan Sosiev (keyboards), Yury Vilnin (guitar), Oleg Predtechensky (guitar, vocal), Oleg Litskevich (vocal), Alexander Gretsinin (bass guitar), Oleg Luzhetsky (drums), Natalia Shateeva (vocal), guest drummer Yury Fokin, and Stas Namin at the 35 Years jubellee concert of the Flowers rock-band in in Knitting Factory, October 29, 2004 

 Owner of Russian Samovar club-restaurant Roman Kaplan, Festival producer Stas Namin, legendary dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and writer Andrey Bitov, during the Festival

 

Slava Polunin, drummer Vladimir Tarasov and piano player Andrey Kondakov, during the Festival