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A queue for the Kunstkamera. The museum has thrown open its doors free of charge at the very peak of the coronavirus wave. Colleagues, are you quite sure this was the right decision? Does nothing give you pause?
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Going to the railway station for a symphony concert? What? In nineteenth-century Saint Petersburg this was quite commonplace: society gathered for balls and concerts at the Pavlovsk Music Station, which was built “for the refuge and pleasure of the public” by Franz Anton von Gerstner, the builder of the
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At the Sheremetev Palace, the International Exhibition "In Diaghilev's Circle. Intersecting Destinies" runs until 12 February 2021, devoted to the creative path of Sergei Diaghilev. The career of the foremost ideologue of Russian culture is presented through portraits of the Diaghilev circle drawn from museums around
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And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky. Preserve My Shadow", built on the interiors and the history of the one and a half rooms in a communal flat at 24 Liteyny, where the Brodsky
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In the Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House there are poetry collections with pages pasted shut. It is reported that Akhmatova herself pasted these pages shut. What is on them? Akhmatova's poems about Stalin. It is believed that Anna Andreyevna was compelled to write them in order to
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A reminder that until 4 October the exhibition "Earthly Beauty: The Image of Woman in Folk Culture" can be seen in Saint Petersburg. It has been prepared by specialists of the Russian Museum of Ethnography from ethnographic collections of the 19th-20th centuries and historical photographs illustrating the
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The Shostakovich Saint Petersburg State Academic Philharmonic celebrates its centenary and, to mark the opening of the new season, which coincides with Dmitri Shostakovich's birthday, will broadcast a grand concert live. The programme includes Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1.
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As for the view from the museum community, concessions are laid down in an order of the Russian Ministry of Culture, but there is also a list of concessions that a museum sets for itself, and the Hermitage has evidently availed itself of that right. In most museums, staff from
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In the Korf Hall of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, at 18 Sadovaya Street, an intriguing exhibition, "Legends of the NLR: Rossica. Marking the 170th Anniversary of the Founding of the Collection", is now open, presenting works by foreigners about Russia from the 18th to
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TikTok has launched a series of virtual tours of Russian museums together with the Kultura.RF project. On Wednesdays and Saturdays one can join a virtual tour in the portal's official account, culturno, of the permanent displays and exhibitions of the country's leading museums. For now,
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The essence of Peter's cabinet of curiosities in a few sentences. "Our museum is about the culture and way of life of the peoples of the world, and therefore it does not display the freaks, dwarfs, giants and other monsters who amused the grandees of the eighteenth