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2014 Sochi Olympics: A Dazzling Opening Ceremony

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Kostantin Ernt pulls together all the threads of the Russian story from modernization with Peter the Great, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and opera to performance of athletes- following national narratives in Beijing and London of previous Olympics.

Konstantin Ernst and telling Russia's story at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremonies

02/07/2014

70 years of communism and 50 years of Cold War, wars and other disasters had distorted Russia's story giving Ernst a challenging task of putting together the Russian narrative from the period of modernization since Peter the Great. Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy and opera, are woven in to tell the story of Russia with a Russian child clad in white bringing all the scenes together.

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