Hybrid Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group

New members are always welcome. You can join in person or via Zoom. This month’s book is It’s the End of the World, My Love by Alla Gorbunova. Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all s......More

New members are always welcome. You can join in person or via Zoom. This month’s book is It’s the End of the World, My Love by Alla Gorbunova. Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl together in Alla Gorbunova’s audacious and spectacular novel. Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova’s heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova’s interconnected episodes don’t limit themselves to the realm of the everyday, as they move from harsh, material reality to delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, and transform. In vivid prose she conjures a fragile and haunted society, and renders it with frank and uncompromising tenderness. A stunning work of fiction, It’s The End of the World, My Love is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding book from an undeniable literary voice. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to join.  

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Icons: Old Believers and Their World Tour with the Curator

Free with Admission. Join the curator for a tour of Icons: Old Believers and Their World. Discover the Old Believers’ experiences of religious upheaval, social persecution, and political discord. Immerse yourself in the timeless, beautifully painted icons that tell a co......More

Free with Admission. Join the curator for a tour of Icons: Old Believers and Their World. Discover the Old Believers’ experiences of religious upheaval, social persecution, and political discord. Immerse yourself in the timeless, beautifully painted icons that tell a compelling story of spiritual resilience and social perseverance.

The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, 01510, United States

Pysanky Egg Decorating Workshop AM Session

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 20, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs an......More

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 20, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs and designs created using a wax-resist method. Students in this workshop will learn how to draw on a whole plain white chicken egg with a special pen (kistka) and melted wax, then dye the egg with special dyes. The drawing and dyeing process is repeated several times as each layer of the design is applied. The egg’s interior is removed, and a ribbon is added. Workshop leader Hanka Robertson was born in Slovenia and learned to make pysanky as a child. She was taught by her mother, who was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia, where pysanky eggs were an annual Easter tradition. The workshop fee includes admission to the Museum, all supplies, a short history of pysanky, instructions on the process and how to care for the completed eggs, motifs and designs for inspiration, and a container to take the decorated eggs home.

The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, 01510, United States

Pysanky Egg Decorating Workshop PM Session

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 20, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs an......More

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 20, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs and designs created using a wax-resist method. Students in this workshop will learn how to draw on a whole plain white chicken egg with a special pen (kistka) and melted wax, then dye the egg with special dyes. The drawing and dyeing process is repeated several times as each layer of the design is applied. The egg’s interior is removed, and a ribbon is added. Workshop leader Hanka Robertson was born in Slovenia and learned to make pysanky as a child. She was taught by her mother, who was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia, where pysanky eggs were an annual Easter tradition. The workshop fee includes admission to the Museum, all supplies, a short history of pysanky, instructions on the process and how to care for the completed eggs, motifs and designs for inspiration, and a container to take the decorated eggs home.

The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, 01510, United States

Pysanky Egg Decorating Workshop AM Session

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 21, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs an......More

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 21, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs and designs created using a wax-resist method. Students in this workshop will learn how to draw on a whole plain white chicken egg with a special pen (kistka) and melted wax, then dye the egg with special dyes. The drawing and dyeing process is repeated several times as each layer of the design is applied. The egg’s interior is removed, and a ribbon is added. Workshop leader Hanka Robertson was born in Slovenia and learned to make pysanky as a child. She was taught by her mother, who was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia, where pysanky eggs were an annual Easter tradition. The workshop fee includes admission to the Museum, all supplies, a short history of pysanky, instructions on the process and how to care for the completed eggs, motifs and designs for inspiration, and a container to take the decorated eggs home.

The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, 01510, United States

Pysanky Egg Decorating Workshop PM Session

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 21, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs an......More

Cost: $35 for Members, $45 for Not-Yet-MembersOpen to participants ages 8 and up (a participating adult must accompany children under the age of 13). Register  Registration deadline: March 21, 2026 Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs and designs created using a wax-resist method. Students in this workshop will learn how to draw on a whole plain white chicken egg with a special pen (kistka) and melted wax, then dye the egg with special dyes. The drawing and dyeing process is repeated several times as each layer of the design is applied. The egg’s interior is removed, and a ribbon is added. Workshop leader Hanka Robertson was born in Slovenia and learned to make pysanky as a child. She was taught by her mother, who was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia, where pysanky eggs were an annual Easter tradition. The workshop fee includes admission to the Museum, all supplies, a short history of pysanky, instructions on the process and how to care for the completed eggs, motifs and designs for inspiration, and a container to take the decorated eggs home.

The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, 01510, United States

Easter Closure

The Museum will be closed on Sunday, April 5, for the Easter Holiday. We will reopen to the public on Thursday, April 9, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Our First Free Sunday program has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 19, to avoid interfering with Orthodox Easter Sunday (Sunday......More

The Museum will be closed on Sunday, April 5, for the Easter Holiday. We will reopen to the public on Thursday, April 9, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Our First Free Sunday program has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 19, to avoid interfering with Orthodox Easter Sunday (Sunday, April 12).

Author talk and Q&A with Mary Kay Zuravleff

Cost: $20 -$35$20 ticket includes admission to the Museum and event$35 tickets include admission to the Museum and event, plus one pre-signed paperback copy of American Ending**Limited quantity available — book must be picked up at the Museum and will not be shipped** R......More

Cost: $20 -$35$20 ticket includes admission to the Museum and event$35 tickets include admission to the Museum and event, plus one pre-signed paperback copy of American Ending**Limited quantity available — book must be picked up at the Museum and will not be shipped** RegisterJoin the Icon Museum and Study Center as we welcome award-winning author Mary Kay Zuravleff to discuss her book “American Ending.” Zuravleff will give an illustrated lecture, followed by an open Q&A. An Oprah pick for spring 2023, “American Ending” follows Yelena, the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents, who are building a life in a Pennsylvania Appalachian town. This town, in the first decades of the 20th century, is filled with Russian transplants and a new church with a dome. Here, boys quit grade school for the coal mines and girls are married off at fourteen. The young pair up, give birth to more babies than they can feed, and make shaky starts in their new world. However, Yelena craves a different path. Will she find her own American ending or will a traditional Russian ending be her fate? In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants–and the fragility of citizenship–are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago. American Ending is a poignant reminder that everything that is happening in America has already happened.

The Icon Museum and Study Center, 203 Union St, Clinton, MA, 01510, United States