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The Carleton Russian Department has received a generous bequest from Lorraine Tillberg Kapitanoff, Carleton Class of 1939.

Exciting times are ahead for six students of the Carleton College Russian Department. In the upcoming months, they will travel to Eastern Europe and Russia on summer programs, study abroad programs, or with Carleton scholarships and fellowships in hand.

Sayan and Erzhena Zhambalov, famous Buryat musicians, visit Carleton.

Virtuoso pianist Yakov Kasman will give a concert in Carleton College’s Concert Hall on Friday, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m.

Award-winning Russian Art Film, “Russian Ark” will be screened at Carleton College’s Boliou Hall, Room 104 on Monday, January 23 at 7 p.m.

Sardana Innokentieva is the 2005-2006 Russian Language Associate. Learn more about her and her hometown in the heart of Siberia.

Last summer Nazish Zafar received an International Service Fellowship to spend two months working at a children’s home in Kitezh, Russia.

From now through the end of 2005, The Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota is hosting the exhibit “Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance,” featuring over ninety paintings and designs from beginning of the 20^th century on loan from the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.