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Join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies in its annual evening of music and poetry. This year we commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, the burning of Moscow, and the eventual defeat of the Grande Armee as it retreated from the avenging Russian army and the unforgiving Russian winter.
This event will include poetry readings (in Russian with English supertitles), music, and mayhem. Feel free to come dressed as Napoleon, Kutuzov, Nadezhda Durova (see below), a French soldier, Moscow-fire victim—use your imagination. We will award prizes for the most creative costumes.
Refreshments will be served from 6:15 p.m. in the Poetry Center breezeway.
Where: UA Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room 1508 E Helen St.
Time: 7 pm (Refreshments at 6:15)
Free and open to the public!
This event will be followed on Saturday, Oct. 20, by a cross-dressing ball at Fluxx Productions in honor of Nadezhda Durova, Russia’s “cavalry maiden,” who fought for her country against Napoleon. (See russian.arizona.edu for details.)
