Leo Tolstoy

Deputy Minister of Education of Ukraine Andriy Vitrenko stated that the Ministry has finally made a decision to exclude Leo Tolstoy's novel "War and Peace" from the school curriculum and all other works in which the Russian army is glorified.

Under the intense gaze of Russian literary giant Leo Tolstoy, his great-granddaughter listens with concern as Anastasia Sheludko describes the horrors she experienced before fleeing Ukraine.

Xenia Tselinga (bayan), Despo Varoudaki (guitar/mandolin) and soprano Roxani Papadimitriou will perform works by Sergei Prokofiev that link Boris Pasternak with William Shakespeare, Federico Garcia Lorca with Friedrich Nietzsche and Edgar Allan Poe with Leo Tolstoy at St Paul's Anglican Church in Athens on Thursday, December 8. Starts at 8.30 p.m.

Inside an old Saint Petersburg apartment that was once home to Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a new exhibition plunges visitors into the dark and complex world of "Crime and Punishment," shedding new light on one of Russia's greatest literary works 150 years after its publication.

The second largest city in Bulgaria - Plovdiv, which has been designated as one of the 2019 European Capitals of Culture, will host a jazz festival between November 2 and 6.

Grammy winner Kurt Elling will open this year's edition of the Jazz Festival with some of his most famous songs for which he has been nominated ten times for the musical awards.