IFC METROPOL General Director Mikhail Slipenchuk awarded Tsarskoye Selo prize for cultural sponsorship
On October 18, 2004 the Tsarskoye Selo
prize-2004 was awarded in the Imperial Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo
(Pushkin). The prize was sought by Polish director Ksistof Zanussi,
poet Alexander Kushnir, actress Inna Churikova, play-writer Nikolai
Kolyada, critic Natalya Ivanova, actor Stanilav Landgraf, poetess
Katerina Fine and others. The jury was headed by Lia
Akhedzhakova.
IFC METROPOL General Director Mikhail Slipenchuk
was awarded the Tsarskoye Selo prize for cultural sponsorship.
IFC METROPOL, one of the leading investment
companies in Russia, is known for its charity and sponsorship
activities. The company’s projects include the sponsorship of the
State Theatre of Nations, the financing of the restoration of the
Murom Spasso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, the Shrine of
Nilo-Stolbenskaya Solitude, the publication of “My life is karate”
by Hatsuo Royama, the President of the International Kyokushinkan
Karate-do Federation, the publication of the complete edition of
the scientific works by Moscow State University’s Geography
Department, contribution to the development of the Kyokushinkan
Karate-do Federation in Russia.
About the prize: The Tsarskoye Selo prize is
awarded for cultural and art achievements. The prize was
established in 1993 by the Pushkin All-Russian museum, composer
Sergey Kuryokhin, film director Alexander Sokurov, writers Viktor
Krivulin and Nikolay Yakimchuk, poet and musician Alexander Dolsky,
and sponsor Boris Blotner. The prize’s symbols are the bronze
sculptures of Catherine II, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam. Over
the years prize winners were actors Valentin Gaft, Mikhail Kozakov,
Sergey Yursky and actress Lia Akhedzhakova, directors Rezo
Gabriadze, Yuri Lyubimov, Roman Viktyuk, Otar Ioseliani, musicians
Mstislav Rostrapovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, Yuri Temirkanov,
Isaak Shvarts, Boris Grebenschikov, Oleg Mityaev and Yuli Kim, poet
Evgeny Evtushenko, academician Dmitry Likhachev, St. Petersburg
first mayor Anatoly Sobchak (posthumously) and sponsor George
Soros.
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