Russia and the Arts. Well, we all know about Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Turgenev, Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. We listen to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. When ballet is mentioned, the first name that may come to mind is Nureyev. And then there are Malevich , Repin and Kandinsky (who wrote the Spiritual in Art). But representatives of the modern Mongol-Tartar stream contradict Sergey O. Prokofiev and Rudolf Steiner, and weigh and measure quantitatively and claim that Russians sleep. And yet the spiritual is apparent in all fields of art. Even the centrality of the omnipresent symbol of Moscow, Saint George, reminds us of the mission of Russia and the coming age. The history of Russia suggests that the people are being prepared to make individual decisions…. Can we as Westerners awaken and experience with clarity the Russian encounter between polarities that makes their arts so unique? In 2013 David Wansbrough was awarded the Russian medal, Man of Peace, by Nikolai Nikolaevich Drozdov. Since being invited to Russia in 1993, he has gone a couple of times each year as a visiting professor. Eleven of his books have been published in the Russian language. Lecture with David Wansbrough at Rudolf Steiner House starting at 7pm.