LONDON, June 4, 2010 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ –
– With Photo
On June 5, Evgeny Lebedev will transform the grounds of his house in
Hampton Court into a Russian church, with a bell tower and the roof of the
temporary dining room based on that in St Basil’s Cathedral.
Lebedev, President Mikhail Gorbachev and Geordie Greig, editor of the
Evening Standard, will be hosting the fifth Russian Midsummer Fantasy in aid
of the Raisa Gorbechev Foundation, which fights childhood cancer.
Tables have been bought for GBP15,000 and the great, the good and the
glitterati will be in attendance. Last year saw JK Rowling, Yasmin and Simon
Le Bon, Vanessa Redgrave, Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum, Emelia Fox, Natalia
Vodianova, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sharlene Spitari, David Walliams, Rachel
Stevens, Nick Rhodes, Anthony Gormley, Kimberly Stewart and Dougray Scott as
guests of this exceptionally glamorous event.
The most coveted auction prize is dinner with the Man Who Changed the
World. Last year private equity investor Cyrus Vandrevala bid GBP75,000 for
it and joined President Gorbachev with his family in Moscow; the previous
year it went to Hugh Grant, and before that the mobile phone tycoon John
Caudwell.
“We are so delighted to have such generous donors who have bid for the
chance of seeing President Gorbachev in private. This is a unique opportunity
to see one of the great leaders of the 20th century who has chosen to
dedicate his life to saving the lives of young people who suffer from
cancer,” commented Geordie Greig.
Another auction prize will be an original Francis Bacon lithograph, given
by his estate.
The Gala Committee includes Hugh Grant, David Hockney, Madonna and
Baroness Thatcher.
Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Midsummer Gala - Saturday 5 June 2010
Stud House, Hampton Court, London
http://raisafund.org.uk/events.html
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SOURCE Raisa Gorbachev Foundation