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For Immediate Release:
(New York, NY)
This Thursday, October 23rd, Moscow 57, the Lower East Side's new Russian Central Asian restaurant with live music nightly at 168 � Delancey Street, hosts Yuri Feynberg for a special event, at 6:00pm, including a signing of his book The Child of Gulag and featuring a performance by his daughter, singer/ songwriter Rebecca Feynberg at 7:00pm.
The Child of Gulag, is the fascinating story of Yuri's life, which was affected by his spending the formative years of his childhood behind the barbed wire of a Soviet prison camp.
ABOUT YURI FEYNBERG
In 1970 Yuri graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute (currently St. Petersburg Pedagogical University) with an MA in Special Education and Speech Pathology. After arriving to the United States, Yuri studied healthcare administration and received his PhD from NYU. In 1991 Yuri started Life Adjustment Center, a non-profit agency for the developmentally disabled. This year he opened the LAC Comprehensive Preschool, an integrated, extended-day education program for children ages 2-5. Yuri currently lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
ABOUT THE CHILD OF GULAG
This story is based on the life of author Yuri Feynberg, who is one of the last surviving children of the Soviet Penal System, known to the world as the GULAG. Although not a prisoner, Yuri spent his childhood behind the barbed wired fence in a remote Siberian hard labor camp, where his mother worked as a medical doctor. As the only child there, he lived among Stalin's political prisoners, hardcore criminals, and security guards.This extraordinary childhood created an unusual personality and an unbendable character, which made it possible for Yuri to excel in the Soviet Special Forces, survive prosecution, and overcome unfathomable personal tragedies without losing his humanity.
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ABOUT MOSCOW 57
Moscow 57, the hospitality and entertainment company, was launched several years ago by partners Ellen Kaye, Seth Goldman and Ethan Fein. Kaye is a third generation restaurateur: her grandfather had restaurants in the 1920's and her parents, Sidney Kaye and Faith Stewart-Gordon owned The Russian Tea Room from 1947-1996.
For the past two years, the company has been hosting its M57 Urban Salons, evenings of music, food and digital visual art displays, in Harlem; Washington Heights; Chelsea; the Upper East Side; the East Village; Governors Island; New Milford, Connecticut; and New Orleans. Moscow 57 has made New Orleans a home away from home, with regular forays into that city's world-renowned culture of Southern hospitality, regional cuisine, and world-class entertainment. After performing at and co-producing events with New York's Corcho Wine Room, as well as celebrating Latin American culture in New Orleans, this cosmopolitan attitude is being brought to Moscow 57's permanent home on New York City's Lower East Side every night.
Moscow 57 Entertaining is developing projects for film, television and theater. Its music company produces podcasts, live performances, recordings and videos. Moscow 57's first CD releases have already garnered national radio airplay, and the company's videos can be seen on the Moscow57Entertaining YouTube channel.
M57 Straight From Delancey, their weekly radio show fwith a live audience from the restaurant, airs every Sunday night at 7:00pm on WVOX 1460 AM, streams live on their website, www.wvox.com, and is archived there at www.moscow57.com.
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