Tatyana Navka received a presidential grant for an ice show, Plushenko and Averbukh were rejected 3/11/2023, 09:35

Tatyana Navka asked for money for performances based on Pushkin’s fairy tale “Ruslan and Ludmila”, Aksakov’s “The Scarlet Flower” and Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake”. The total cost of the project also includes 127.145 million rubles for co-financing.

Bruslař identified the target group of the project as young viewers who are looking forward to meeting a fairy tale. “The great music, colorful scenery and the best performances of the artists of our shows always leave an unforgettable impression,” reads the official document.

The Olympic champion calls her ice show a successful symbiosis of immortal classics, the skills of excellent Russian figure skaters and modern stage technologies.“Today, more than ever, it is important to popularize such world-class projects that demonstrate the continuity of generations in the field of culture and sports and the huge variety of forms and methods for embodying Russian cultural archetypes,” such a summary states. on the website of the Foundation for Cultural Initiatives.

At the same time, Yevgeny Plushenko and Ilya Averbuch sent requests to the presidential fund. The two-time Olympic champion asked for 79.745 million rubles (more than half of the total amount) for the Union of Champions show, and Averbukh – 53 million out of 132.879 million rubles for the Anna Karenina show. However, the husbands of Yana Rudkovská and Liza Arzamasová were rejected.