Archive — The Russian Garden Gazette

The Archive

Every issue, kept in one place. The Gazette is a permanent record of the Russian Cultural Garden — not a newsletter to be read once and deleted.

Issue #17 cover: the Cleveland script sign on the waterfront at night.

Issue #17 · September 2026

Music Without a Passport

Shostakovich, George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra from 1935 to the strike of 2026; Vladimir Vavilov, the real author of “Caccini’s” Ave Maria and “The Golden City”; three hours with Pyotr Vail; final approval for the Russian Garden project; the Gala at La Villa.

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Issue #16 cover: sunflowers in the Russian Garden against the autumn park.

Issue #16 · September 2026

Three Calendars

The longest American summer; the unwritten lullaby for the little Mary; Merab Mamardashvili and two Kants; Sophia Loren and Sunflowers; a quiz on Italy in Russia.

Issue #15 cover: a Garden path beneath birch branches.

Issue #15 · September 2026

A Person Needs a Person

Lang Lang and Polina Osetinskaya at Severance Hall; the county's uncomfortable numbers; September birthdays from Wells to Titov; Cranes over September.

Issue #14 cover: Doan Brook in Rockefeller Park.

Issue #14 · September 2026

Earth, Roots, Sky

The Garden's real birthday and Leo Tolstoy; where we all came from before Cleveland; the Air Show and Blok's Aviator; Tereshkova; the future of the Lake Erie shore.

Cover of Issue #13: hydrangea blooms against a blue sky in the Russian Cultural Garden.

Issue #13 · September 2026

From Summer to Autumn

One World Day 2026; George Danelia and the Garden’s open-air movie nights; Ekaterina Asmus on ten years of The Teacher; a poem nobody wrote; and Yuri Shevchuk.

Cover of Issue #12: a path through hydrangea toward the Gagarin monument.

Issue #12 · August 2026

New Names · Old Stories

New names on the Walk of Fame — Chumakov, Voroshilova, Dovlatov; literary anecdotes that were never by Kharms; Yuri’s Night in Cleveland, 2019; and One World Day.

Cover of Issue #11: Isaac Levitan’s Birch Grove.

Issue #11 · August 2026

Scraps of Augusts

Severyanin’s August; the ballet that replaced the news in 1991; Russian summer in painting; Theremin’s Cleveland premiere; Rachmaninoff’s practical joke; and One World Day.

Cover of Issue #10: the Russian Cultural Garden in late summer, green lawn and young trees.

Issue #10 · August 2026

What Remains

Tarkovsky and Brodsky on the end of summer; the 127th Feast of the Assumption in Little Italy; World on Stage and the Gardens Gala; and a new Cleveland idea.

Cover of Issue #9: the Russian Cultural Garden in spring, tulips in bloom.

Issue #9 · August 2026

The Tradition Evolved

A message from the founders; the first Grand Piano in the Russian Garden concert of 2014; and the tradition as it returns, with orchestra, at the Italian Cultural Garden.

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The preceding number of the Gazette, published on the Garden's site.

Earlier issues are being gathered and will be added here as they are prepared for the archive. If you have photographs, programmes, clippings or recollections from the Garden's history, the Gazette would be glad to receive them: board@russiangarden.org.