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The Hermitage has completed the restoration of Rembrandt's "The Sacrifice of Abraham". The results of the work, which lasted four years, are presented at a temporary exhibition in the Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace. Specialists removed layers of yellowed varnish and later overpainting which for
Art · Cinema · People · Saint Petersburg
The model shows the maintenance tram car in which Danila Bagrov took refuge from the gangsters in the film Brother. On the edge of the car sits the figure of the director. The monument will be cast in bronze at life size and installed in May next year in Yekaterinburg,
Faith · Art · Books · Saint Petersburg
Your image, tormenting and unsteady, I could not touch in the fog. "Lord!" I said by mistake, Not thinking at all of saying it. God's name, like a great bird, Flew out of my breast. Ahead of me thick fog swirls, And behind me an empty
Archive · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
Postcard. Saint Petersburg: Kyakhta Tea Merchants' Association “Jin-Long”, 1900s.
Archive · Education · Society · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Homo homini amicus, collega et frater est: Man Is to Man a Friend, Comrade and Brother. The historian of antiquity Mark Naumovich Botvinnik (1917-1994) recalls Stalin's post-war reforms as an attempt by an ageing leader to bring back the feeling of youth. Old people begin to
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Yegor Larichkin, accused in the case of the murder of Mikhail Gertsenshtein, together with his guards at a window of the building where the court sessions were held. Terijoki, Grand Duchy of Finland, 1909. Now Zelenogorsk, a district of Saint Petersburg. The Russian Empire we have lost
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Gymnastics for Young Ladies, Adapted to Their Various Ages, for Public and Domestic Education. Adopted as a guide in the Saint Petersburg institutes under the Department of the Institutions of Empress Maria. The author, a doctor of medicine and surgery, described exercises intended specifically for women. The doctor held that
Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Palace of Monplaisir was built to designs by Peter the Great. Whenever the Emperor came to Peterhof, he would usually stay here, in one of his favourite palaces. The interiors were adorned with Dutch tiles, wood carving, lacquer panels, stucco and painted ceilings. The floors of the galleries and
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The funeral of Anna Akhmatova, 10 March 1966. Second from the left is Yevgeny Rein, beside him Arseny Tarkovsky. At the coffin is Alexey Panteleyev, and behind him Joseph Brodsky.
Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
From 1 December, the basic price of a Hermitage ticket will be 700 roubles. Revenue from ticket sales will go towards improving infrastructure, above all security systems, creating a comfortable environment for exhibits and visitors, free charitable tours and inclusive programmes
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I love beneath the vaults a grey-haired quiet, the wandering of requiems and memorial services, and the moving rite to which all are bound: the funeral service at St Isaac's. I love the priest's unhurried step, The broad bearing-out of the winding-sheet, And