Attend the Bolshoi Ballet

Watch ballet at Royal Opera House London

Master basic ballet positions and movements

Chandeliers, mosaics and marble a hundred metres down; the palace the Soviets built for commuters.

Moscow's survivors in the metro tunnels; the Russian post-apocalypse from Glukhovsky's novel.

Artyom back in the tunnels and out into a ruined Moscow surface.

A married woman, a cavalry officer and a train; "all happy families are alike".

Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.

A woman waits for a soldier who will not return; the Soviet film that won the Palme d'Or.