{"title": "«Жизнь и судьба» Василия Гроссмана", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading group held in Russian, meeting in person at Pushkin House. It is dedicated to Vasily Grossman's «Жизнь и судьба». It is run by Pushkin House as part of its programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/event-38083/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4985ffe5303c229784469af765949af3f96cf0ea7fa9623da32bba8ac45a4b07-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Pushkin Club. 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They will discuss the eight-volume bie-bao series on the Futurist poet and typographic artist Iliazd, and the new publication of Shop-Signs in Kharkiv by the 1920s Ukrainian modernist Maik Yohansen. 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