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The depiction of the Bronze Horseman in the engraving by Philibert Boutrois, from Pierre Nicolas Chantreau's «Philosophical, Political and Literary Journey through Russia in 1788 and 1789» of 1794, is surprisingly inaccurate. The inscription «Petro Primo / Catharina Secunda», that is, «Catherine the Second to Peter the First», Boutrois
Education · People · Saint Petersburg
At 13, Sergei Prokofiev became a student of the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire – and it was a real breakthrough! His talent was noticed by Alexander Glazunov, who himself suggested that the boy should enter the Conservatoire at once. And what proved decisive at the entrance examinations was the opinion of Nikolai
The Golden Age · Archive · Books · Mores · Society · Saint Petersburg
The playbill of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre announces a full repeat of the staged "Trial of Raskolnikov" on 21 November 1921 On 11 November 1921 (30 October, Old Style) it was one hundred years since the birth of Dostoevsky, and Petrograd marked the writer's jubilee. A
Art · Moscow · Saint Petersburg
The ballet "The Flames of Paris" was staged in Leningrad for the fifteenth anniversary of the October Revolution. The premiere took place on 7 November 1932 at the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet, as the Mariinsky Theatre was then called. The music was written by Boris Asafyev,
Architecture · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
On the evening of 1 October the Miller mansion at 3 Isaakievskaya Square in Saint Petersburg burned down. The house dates from the second half of the 18th century; in 1879-1880 it was rebuilt in eclectic forms by the architect Ferdinand Miller, and in 2021 it received the status
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The Catherine Palace during restoration in 1976. The Catherine Palace suffered severely during the German occupation of Pushkin. The Germans first plundered Rastrelli's Baroque masterpiece, then turned it into barracks and garages, and, retreating in January 1944, mined it and set it on fire. It was from its
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The Marble Palace is cramped. One understands this on seeing the collection, so familiar from its walls, in the halls of the Zilart museum. Stepping into the space of the new exhibition of the gift of Peter and Irene Ludwig, shown here in its entirety for the first time, I
Coming Up · Books · Saint Petersburg
The programme includes meetings with writers and researchers, lectures, concerts, a publishers' market, book-dating and a separate programme for children. Among the participants are Zhang Yueran, Marcello Simonetta, Angela Nanetti (online), Yevgeny Tsyganov and the band ME4TA, TERELYA, ARTEMIEV, Vladimir Lisovsky, Lev Lurie, Alyona Doletskaya, Vika Chuma, Marina
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A scene from a play on a theme from Russian history. The photograph was taken by Karl Bulla in Saint Petersburg in the 1910s
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The Seventies are arranged in a rather unusual way in Soviet culture. The Thaw was over, the euphoria had evaporated, and it became clear to certain people that print runs in the millions and vast auditoriums no longer loomed on the horizon, while large exhibitions would be of whatever format