Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchy's department of external relations and Metropolitan of Volokolamsk Ilarion (left) and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.
(left to right) Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev, deputy chairman of the Moscow government and head of the Moscow Social Complex Lyudmila Shvetsov, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchy's department of external relations and Metropolitan of Volokolamsk Ilarion and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Fiannce Minister Alexei Kudrin at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Fiannce Minister Alexei Kudrin (center) with his wife Irina (right) at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Fiannce Minister Alexei Kudrin at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.
Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev (left) and ballerina Maiya Plisetskaya at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin at the opening of the Moscow Easter Festival in the Great Hall of the Conservatory.
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin at the opening of the Moscow Easter Festival in the Great Hall of the Conservatory.
Left to right: Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and composer Rodion Shchedrin at the opening of the Moscow Easter Festival in the Great Hall of the Conservatory.
Yaroslav Kuzminov, rector of State University - Higher School of Economics (2nd left), and Elvira Nabiullina, Russian Minister of Economic Development (2nd right), at the opening of the 9th Moscow Easter Festival at the Moscow Conservatory.