Hotels, dinners and dances: how secular Moscow started 2025

The social life in the capital is gaining momentum after the New Year holidays. Foreign stars are flashed at events. Turkish actress Hande Erchel presented in Moscow the movie "Leave it to the Wind", Mexican Barbara de Rejil - the comedy "Vasily". It was at this presentation was the first outing of Sasha Petrov with a pregnant wife. Yulia Peresild presented an exclusive fragment from the upcoming movie "ON and She" about the relationship of her heroine with artificial intelligence, and "Air" and "Love of the Soviet Union" fought for the "Golden Eagle". "Izvestia" - about what events heroes of secular chronicles and celebrities attended in January.

Turkish stars, dancing to Agutin and Petrov with his pregnant wife.

January is a month of traditional calm after the stormy pre-New Year period. In its first days in the calendar of parties literally tumbleweeds. However, the heroes of the secular chronicle, usually day after day fluttering around the capital between movie premieres, fashion shows, tastings and other events, it does not really bother. Some of them restored their strength in sunny resorts, others shook the snowy Courchevel to Tatiana Kurtukova's "Mother".

As a result, it turned out that the first reception in Moscow was organized by guests from Turkey. It is not about the sensational last week visit to the capital of the star of "Knock on my door" Hande Erchel with the movie "Leave it to the wind". On January 15, representatives of a hotel in Antalya invited local partners and friends to a dinner at a panoramic restaurant in Moscow City, setting a generous table.

The authors of secular chronicles from several met at the table, eager to learn the culture of Turkish receptions. Surprisingly, the musical mood was not set by any Tarkan: after the official part, which was accompanied by a cabaret show, the guests from sunny Turkey gave themselves up to dancing to Agutin. For chroniclers, the evening marked the start of the season, which after began to slowly gain momentum.

A week later "October" opened its doors again for secular movie premieres. On Tuesday, January 21, there presented ironic detective "Overheard in Rybinsk" with Timofey Tribuntsev in the role of a journalist for a local newspaper, which in the story becomes the owner of the gift to foresee crimes. The actor himself at the presentation was not. Marked on the red carpet Ruzil Minekaev with his wife Aziza, Grigory Vernik, Alena Mikhailova, Sophia Sinitsina.

And the next day in the walls of the theater rattled social premiere of the comedy "Vasily" Dima Litvinenko, who issued a new work just a couple of months after the scandalous series "Give Show". The main heroes of the evening were the performers of the main roles - Sasha Petrov, who first went out in public with his wife after the news of her pregnancy, and Mexican actress Barbara de Rehil, who amazed the audience who sat for weeks on olivier relief abs and welcome speech in three languages - Russian, English and Spanish.

Unpacking Samsung

While some people spent the evening watching "Vasily", others celebrated the launch of Samsung Galaxy S25 smartphones. "Izvestia" among the first in Russia tested the model, which is detailed in the review.

The unpacking was held in several places on the Moscow map at once - at Vorobyovy Hall, Soma restaurant, and guest manager Idris Gitinaev invited the secular public to Askeri Club contemporary art gallery. However, unpacking alone will not surprise the audience tempted by different kinds of events. An additional "bonus" was an interactive video installation by artist Kami Usu and a performance - with the help of built-in artificial intelligence the guests transformed their own sketches into images.

New exhibitions and presentation of the movie "ON and She" with Yulia Peresild.

Cube.Moscow gallery made a mark in the social calendar. On January 23 it invited fans of contemporary art to the opening of 12 new exhibitions. No performances, only demonstration of exhibits, to the accompaniment of interrupting each other's conversations, it seems that gallery owners, artists and regular viewers have managed to miss each other for the long January.

The authors of the projects invited the viewer to explore the inner world of the gallery owner, through complex sculptures of objects made of metal and other materials to explore the paralyzing state that encompasses nature, society and the human mind, to reflect on the relationship between the realities of modern society and tradition. They also discussed the nomination of Yury Borisov for an Oscar for his role in "Anora", which happened that day.

The heroes of the chronicle quenched in January the need for both spectacle and bread. In the spotlight on Monday, January 27, were the restaurants of the capital. The Theater on Malaya Bronnaya hosted a big gastronomic feast in honor of awarding the capital's establishments that were included in the updated top 50 "Ultima Guide Yandex Food".

The evening gathered an impressive number of guests from different spheres: there were restaurateur Arkady Novikov, writer Alexander Tsypkin, actors Mila Ershova and Svyatoslav Rogozhan, Olympic champions Daria Korobova and Angelina Melnikova, stylist Serdar Kambarov and many others. While local chefs were resting on their laurels, masters from St. Petersburg, Sochi, Krasnoyarsk and Nizhny Novgorod were cooking for the invited guests. No one went hungry, and some people were even given treats to take home with them at the end of the event.

Having completely forgotten about their promises to go on a diet after the New Year's holidays, some people went to celebrate the Croissant Day at the House of Culture on January 30 at the invitation of pastry chef and restaurateur Zina Ovshtein. Others went to Historia restaurant for an exclusive presentation of a fragment from the new movie "ON and Her" with Yulia Peresild and a special set menu "5 Love Languages". At lunch they discussed whether artificial intelligence can replace humans. They couldn't come to an agreement.

Closed a series of January events National Award in the field of cinematography "Golden Eagle". The ceremony was held on the last day of the month, January 31. The triumphants of the award were the films "Air" and "Love of the Soviet Union", which received six statuettes each.