If you are weary of Moscow's sultry weather, you need the cool Baltic air

If you are weary of Moscow's sultry weather, you need the cool Baltic air. But you surely do not know that in Saint Petersburg, too, nobody is having an easier time of it, and one may well have to languish from the heat still more. I hope that this selection of the latest museum and gallery events in Saint Petersburg, in our regular "Where to Go" feature, may be of some help in these climatic circumstances.

✔️The exhibition "Focus: The Collector" at MYTH Gallery at 61 Tchaikovsky Street and at the Kochevaya House at 41 Fontanka Embankment, until 30 June.

✔️The exhibition "'By Age': Codes of Tradition in Costume" at the Russian Museum of Ethnography at 4/1 Inzhenernaya Street, until 15 September.

✔️The exhibition "Genius loci of Our City", from the cycle "The Un*known Photographer Presnyakov: The Last Mir Iskusstva Artist of Leningrad", at the Borey gallery at 58 Liteyny Prospect, until 30 June.

✔️The exhibition "Colour and Movement: The Printed Graphic Art of Vera Matyukh" in the Main Building of the National Library of Russia — until 20 July.

✔️The exhibition of works by Olga Rozanova, "Revolutionary of Art", at the Marble Palace at 5/1 Millionnaya Street, until 2 September.

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If you are weary of Moscow's sultry weather, you need the cool Baltic air

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

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