Peter Doubtfire of Young Friends General Meeting (part of Britain Yearly Meeting) reports on the EMEYF Gathering in Russia in April 2019 25 young adult Quakers and 10 children gathered in the village of Peski near St Petersburg for...
This article first appeared in The Friend on 15 February 2018 under the title “A Russian tale”. It is reproduced here by permission. The picture is a view of Buzuluk, painted by Richard Kilbey who was a member of...
In 2016 Friends House Moscow supported a project to preserve the archive of documents belonging to Vladimir Chertkov, who was Tolstoy’s literary executor and the organiser of the Russian pacifist movement in the early 20th Century. The following article...
2018 is the 200th anniversary of when the marshes around St Petersburg began to be drained by the Quaker Daniel Wheeler. When Tsar Alexander wanted to undertake this project, he contacted the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain with...
Eleanor Barden, 24 February 1932 – 26 March 2018 A Memorial, by Sergei Nikitin Sad news has come from Northampton Quaker Meeting — Eleanor Barden is dead. I met Eleanor a very long time ago, 20 years ago. She...
Readers may be interested to know about the Mennonite Centre at Molochansk in south eastern Ukraine. Based in a restored former Mennonite Girls’ School (Maedchenschule) building, the Centre is engaged in humanitarian and social development work to improve the...
The Great Manchester 10K Run took place on 10 May 2015. Our Friend Rebecca Critchley took part in the run to raise money for Friends House Moscow. Here is her account of the event. It is only when you...
At Britain Yearly Meeting (held at Friends House, London in May 2015), Friends House Moscow tried an experiment in connecting three countries together. Our programme staff, in the office in Moscow, and Alla Soroka of AVP Ukraine, speaking from...
Zarathustra is a (very) fat ginger cat who is owned (or is it the other way round?) by Russian artist Svetlana Petrova. Svetlana has become known for her online artworks which feature paintings by famous artists, embellished by the...
By Pat Stewart On Saturday, March 15, two weeks after Russian forces began to take control of key locations in Crimea and one day before the Crimean referendum, there was a peace march in Moscow. According to the BBC,...