Shishkin paintings will show for people with the surname Elkin and Elkina in the Tretyakov Gallery gratis

Shishkin paintings will show for people with the surname Elkin and Elkina in the Tretyakov Gallery gratis
28 November 2016, Monday

Tretyakov Gallery will arrange a free tour of the exhibition by Russian artist Ivan Shishkin for people with the surname Elkin and Elkina 29 November.


According to the organizers of the event, 29 November is considered the birthday of the letter "e". On this day in 1783, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova at the meeting of the Academy of Russian Literature raised the question of whether the labeling is correct the first sound in the word "iolka" two letters. It is proposed to introduce a new letter in the alphabet - "e". Offer Princess academics seemed reasonable, and the letter was included in the alphabet.


The event was organized by the creators of the comedy "The Firs 5". Free tours will spend the first 60 Elkin, who came to the Tretyakov Gallery. For the admission ticket will need to come at 16.00 to the movie poster in the lobby and institutions to present a passport or birth certificate.


Christmas comedy "The Firs 5" will be released on 22 December. In the fifth installment in the franchise played Ivan Urgant, Sergei Svetlakov, Gosha Kutsenko, Maria Shukshin, Anna Khil'kevich, Kirill Pletnev, Katherine Spitz, Yan Yan Tsapnik. The film will consist of five novels, the effect of which will unfold not only in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Chelyabinsk, Perm and Yekaterinburg, but also on the oil platform "Prirazlomnaja" in the Barents Sea ice.

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