This year the world celebrates the 150th anniversary of Ernest Rutherford’s birth. In the end of July 2021, I spoke about my research and findings from Russian primary sources related to Lord Rutherford and his Russian students at the Museum
Today at the Irish Embassy at the launch of the book about Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, translator and Nobel laureate – Raids & Settlements: Seamus Heaney as translator. I co-authored a chapter on Heaney and Russia with my husband
My talk at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa ‘Hidden Treasures – Forgotten Taonga Māori in Russia’ on 14 March 2021 went really well. That was so encouraging to receive a phone call from Sir Tipene O’Regan before
Tonight at NZ Parliament with Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, HE Mark Brown, Stuart Prior and Olga Suvorova (or I should be Olga Suwarrow as a beautiful island in the northern group of the Cook Islands). I was going
That was such a privilege to be invited by the Picton Heritage Museum and the Picton Historical Society to talk at the opening of the exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Russian expedition visit to Queen Charlotte Sound.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky visited Wellington in 1961 and conducted the New Zealand National Orchestra in a performance of his dramatic Firebird suite. After a brief research I found this clip that shows the orchestra playing the finale at the
Forgotten Taonga Māori in Russia: The 1820 Visit of the Bellingshausen – Lazarev Expedition to Queen Charlotte Sound
Russia is a country of extensive and unique collections of all kinds from the Pacific. Over many centuries Russian travellers, explorers and