23 May
06:00–00:00 
Kirov Central Park of Culture and Recreation
The Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Sergei Kirov is the oldest park in St. Petersburg. Its architecture and layout are a masterpiece of the early 19th century landscape design, created by the famous architect Carlo Rossi. In its contemporary period, the Park combines beauty and sophistication of the previous centuries with possibilities of casual recreation for residents and guests of St. Petersburg. Every year the Park hosts the best open-air events of the summer. Tulip blossom season is a highlight of Yelagin Island. In 2018, the tulips are in blossom on 10–26 May.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
23 May
09:00–20:00 
Peterhof State Museum-Reserve
The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is the capital of fountains. It attracts thousands of tourists every year. Forum guests will be able to enjoy the Lower Park, one of the most beautiful parks in Europe. It is graced by 150 completely different fountains: from colossal cascades, including the Grand Cascade that features the famous statue of Samson in the centre of the ensemble, to trick fountains, which delight children and adults alike.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
23 May
09:00–22:00 
Catherine and Alexander Parks
The magnificent palace complex at Tsarskoye Selo would not be complete without its parks, the most important of which, Catherine and Alexander, are named after the palaces that grace their grounds.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
10:00–12:00 
The Fabergé Museum
The Fabergé Museum, in the Shuvalov Palace, houses the world’s largest collection of works by the House of Fabergé. Here you can not only appreciate the exquisite jewellery masterpieces from the Imperial Easter Series commissioned by the two last Russian Emperors, but also cabinet gifts, lapidary art, silver, enamel, and jewelled Russian icons, all crafts in which Fabergé specialized.
Premium package holders can present their SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must independently pay for excursions and other additional services.
Premium package holders can present their SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must independently pay for excursions and other additional services.
23 May
10:00–22:00 
2018 Sand Sculpture Festival
An annual sand sculpture festival is held outside on the beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, amazing visitors year after year with its grand scale and superb craftsmanship.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the festival.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the festival.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
10:00–17:00 
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection exhibition, curated in conjunction with the State Hermitage Museum, first opened in 2016. The exhibited items include a collection of Eastern bladed weapons, firearms from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and European arms and equipment from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including armour, helmets, halberds, swords, and horse harnesses. The State Hermitage contributed some rare items from its collection for temporary display, including some sixteenth-century armour from Nicholas I’s collection.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
10:00–17:00 
Tsarskoye Selo 1917: On the eve ...
This exhibition describes the life of the Tsarskoye Selo residence from February to October 1917, the period between the two revolutions. This was a time when one era (the monarchy) was drawing to a close and a new era, full of revolutionary upheavals, was dawning. At that time, the residence at Tsarskoye Selo still existed but it had already lost its imperial status. The last Russian emperor and his family were still living in the Alexander Palace, but he was now citizen Romanov, held under house arrest by the Provisional Government. Starting in spring 1917, an Artistic and Historical Commission was set up at the Imperial Palace of Tsarskoye Selo to inventory the newly nationalized property and create a museum in the former residence.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
10:00–18:00 
Pavlovsk State Museum
Pavlovsk Palace and Park constitutes a monument to the architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The prominent architects, decorators, and painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who contributed to its creation include Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna, Andrey Voronikhin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Carlo Rossi, Pietro Gonzaga, and others.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
10:00–18:00 
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
Drawn from the collections of the Russian State Museum, the State Hermitage, and private owners, the approximately 350 examples of domestic ceramics dating from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1990s in this exhibition trace the new artistic approaches and motifs applied by artists over various periods of national history, and explore how the portrayal of sports and a healthy lifestyle in the visual arts has changed.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
10:00–18:00 
Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
Diverse in materials and themes but with a single cultural and historical focus, this exhibition tells the story of significant events in Russian history using over 400 exhibits from the visual and applied arts. It features paintings and graphic works, sculpture, porcelain, glassware, works of applied art, costumes, and archival documents.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
11:00–17:00 
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
The museum presents the traditional cultures of peoples from around the world (Native Americans, Eskimos, Japanese, Indians, Mongols, etc.) as well as some of the first natural science collections, which date back to the time of Peter the Great. The Mikhail Lomonosov and the Eighteenth-Century Academy of Sciences exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the history of Russian science. There is also an option to enjoy guided tours of the First Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences and the Gottorp (Greater Academic) Globe exhibits. The museum is currently presenting the following temporary exhibit: Dervishes: Images and Words.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
23 May
14:00–21:00 
Caution: Children at Play! Exhibition Project
Over 110 artisans, including painters, drawing artists, sculptors, and video artist participate in this exhibition project. All of them belong to different generations representing different traditions: traditional classical art, underground art, primitivism and hyperrealism, as well as many other trends gaining ground in contemporary visual art. Among the participants, one can find both famous names and young authors: Nikolay Ionin (1890-1948), Nikolay Andronov (1929-98), Oleg Tselkov (born 1934), Ilya Kabakov (born 1933), Oskar Rabin (born 1928), Solomon Rossin (born 1937), Maxim Kantor (born 1957), Vladimir Dubosarsky (born 1964), Leonid Tskhe (born 1983) and many others. Every artist has their own journey, their own childhood and their own memories of it.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
23 May
18:00–19:30 
A charity concert at the Fabergé Museum
The eve of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum will be marked by a concert with the participation of world-renowned pianist Mira Yevtich and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev. The charitable evening has been organized to support the programmes of the Fabergé Museum and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre.
The Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg is home to the world’s largest collection of pieces by Peter Carl Fabergé, which form the basis of its permanent exhibition. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre is devoted to the history of Russia from the reign of Catherine the Great onward as seen through the experience of the Jewish people.
The Fabergé Museum and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre frequently hold temporary exhibitions which are of the utmost importance to the social and cultural development of the country.
Entry to the event is by invitation from the organizers only.
The Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg is home to the world’s largest collection of pieces by Peter Carl Fabergé, which form the basis of its permanent exhibition. The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre is devoted to the history of Russia from the reign of Catherine the Great onward as seen through the experience of the Jewish people.
The Fabergé Museum and the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre frequently hold temporary exhibitions which are of the utmost importance to the social and cultural development of the country.
Entry to the event is by invitation from the organizers only.
23 May
19:00–22:00 
The Summer of One Year
Fantasies based on the play On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson.
Stage manager and director: Andrei Prikotenko.
The Summer of One Year is a story full of sincerity, joy, laughter, and virtuosic acting. It is the story of how one family is pulled apart only to be later reconciled; about the search for a common language between different generations. Starring: Alisa Freindlikh and Oleg Basilashvili.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Stage manager and director: Andrei Prikotenko.
The Summer of One Year is a story full of sincerity, joy, laughter, and virtuosic acting. It is the story of how one family is pulled apart only to be later reconciled; about the search for a common language between different generations. Starring: Alisa Freindlikh and Oleg Basilashvili.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
23 May
19:00–21:45 
The Marriage of Figaro
Love, passion, intrigue, comic situations, and practical jokes. The players of the On Mokhovaya Academic Theatre offer a modern reading of Beaumarchais’ brilliant vaudeville The Marriage of Figaro. Students from the Institute of Performing Arts bring their youthful enthusiasm, creative excitement, and improvisation skills to bear in their portrayals of the characters in this timeless work of eighteenth-century literature. Director: Alexander Stavisky.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
23 May
19:30–22:00 
Gala concert at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
This gala concert in aid of the fight against cancers of the female reproductive system is the final stage of an interagency and interregional social awareness project ‘Live Without Fear. Live Through Art,’ which seeks to prevent cancer and promote early screening.
The main goal of the project is to detect cancers of the female reproductive system at an early stage and to attract wide public attention to this problem in a bid to dramatically increase awareness among the population and medical professionals about how the disease can be prevented and treated. In 2018, the project covered 11 regions and reached tens of thousands of women.
The performance will feature ballet stars.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
The main goal of the project is to detect cancers of the female reproductive system at an early stage and to attract wide public attention to this problem in a bid to dramatically increase awareness among the population and medical professionals about how the disease can be prevented and treated. In 2018, the project covered 11 regions and reached tens of thousands of women.
The performance will feature ballet stars.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
23 May
20:00–22:20 
Falstaff
Opening of the 26th Stars of the White Nights International Music Festival
After a long absence, Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff, returns to the Mariinsky stage. A team of Italian theatre designers is preparing for the premiere, and leading soloists from the opera company are rehearsing their roles. Director Andrea De Rosa, who previously directed Falstaff, based on the Shakespearean character, for drama theatres, is working with artists on each line and on the mise en scène, as he would for a dramatic production. Valery Gergiev will conduct the orchestra at the premiere.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
After a long absence, Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff, returns to the Mariinsky stage. A team of Italian theatre designers is preparing for the premiere, and leading soloists from the opera company are rehearsing their roles. Director Andrea De Rosa, who previously directed Falstaff, based on the Shakespearean character, for drama theatres, is working with artists on each line and on the mise en scène, as he would for a dramatic production. Valery Gergiev will conduct the orchestra at the premiere.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
23 May
20:00–22:00 
Rodin
This ballet features the music of Maurice Ravel, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Jules Massenet. It is about the fate and creativity of the great sculptor Auguste Rodin and his pupil, lover, and muse Camille Claudel. The production has enjoyed great success at leading theatres in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Budapest, Moscow, Beijing, and many other cities. It has received the Golden Mask and Golden Sofit awards.
Reviewing the production, the authoritative British ballet critic Margaret Willis wrote: "The French artist Auguste Rodin sculpted with clay. Russian choreographer Boris Eifman sculpts with bodies. Both are master craftsmen at their art and their differing styles have similarly produced memorable images of beauty and brilliance."
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Reviewing the production, the authoritative British ballet critic Margaret Willis wrote: "The French artist Auguste Rodin sculpted with clay. Russian choreographer Boris Eifman sculpts with bodies. Both are master craftsmen at their art and their differing styles have similarly produced memorable images of beauty and brilliance."
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
23 May
21:00–22:30 
Grand opening of the 26th St. Petersburg Palaces International Music Festival
The Outstanding Voices of the Twenty-First Century concert. Soloists: Nicole Cabell, soprano (USA), and Stephen Costello, tenor (USA). Programme: classic hits by Gershwin and Bernstein as well as masterpieces by Mozart, Bizet, Verdi, and Puccini.
Conductor: Constantine Orbelian, multiple Grammy Award nominee.
Nicole Cabell is an American opera diva and one of the best lyric sopranos in the world. International critics have hailed her as "the voice of a new generation”. Stephen Costello is a unique lyric tenor who possesses a voice that is rich in timbre. Costello is an acclaimed star of the Metropolitan Opera, and he regularly performs in the best theatres in Europe.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Conductor: Constantine Orbelian, multiple Grammy Award nominee.
Nicole Cabell is an American opera diva and one of the best lyric sopranos in the world. International critics have hailed her as "the voice of a new generation”. Stephen Costello is a unique lyric tenor who possesses a voice that is rich in timbre. Costello is an acclaimed star of the Metropolitan Opera, and he regularly performs in the best theatres in Europe.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
24 May
06:00–00:00 
Kirov Central Park of Culture and Recreation
The Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Sergei Kirov is the oldest park in St. Petersburg. Its architecture and layout are a masterpiece of the early 19th century landscape design, created by the famous architect Carlo Rossi. In its contemporary period, the Park combines beauty and sophistication of the previous centuries with possibilities of casual recreation for residents and guests of St. Petersburg. Every year the Park hosts the best open-air events of the summer. Tulip blossom season is a highlight of Yelagin Island. In 2018, the tulips are in blossom on 10–26 May.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
24 May
09:00–22:00 
Catherine and Alexander Parks
The magnificent palace complex at Tsarskoye Selo would not be complete without its parks, the most important of which, Catherine and Alexander, are named after the palaces that grace their grounds.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
09:00–20:00 
Peterhof State Museum-Reserve
The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is the capital of fountains. It attracts thousands of tourists every year. Forum guests will be able to enjoy the Lower Park, one of the most beautiful parks in Europe. It is graced by 150 completely different fountains: from colossal cascades, including the Grand Cascade that features the famous statue of Samson in the centre of the ensemble, to trick fountains, which delight children and adults alike.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
24 May
10:00–14:00 
The Fabergé Museum
The Fabergé Museum, in the Shuvalov Palace, houses the world’s largest collection of works by the House of Fabergé. Here you can not only appreciate the exquisite jewellery masterpieces from the Imperial Easter Series commissioned by the two last Russian Emperors, but also cabinet gifts, lapidary art, silver, enamel, and jewelled Russian icons, all crafts in which Fabergé specialized.
Premium package holders can present their SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must independently pay for excursions and other additional services.
Premium package holders can present their SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must independently pay for excursions and other additional services.
24 May
10:00–18:00 
Pavlovsk State Museum
Pavlovsk Palace and Park constitutes a monument to the architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The prominent architects, decorators, and painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who contributed to its creation include Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna, Andrey Voronikhin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Carlo Rossi, Pietro Gonzaga, and others.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
10:00–22:00 
2018 Sand Sculpture Festival
An annual sand sculpture festival is held outside on the beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, amazing visitors year after year with its grand scale and superb craftsmanship.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the festival.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the festival.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
10:00–18:00 
Art Nouveau of St. Petersburg
This exhibition is devoted to one of the most interesting periods in the cultural history of St. Petersburg: the turn of the twentieth century, which is often called the Art Nouveau period.
A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
10:00–17:00 
Russia in the Great War Museum
This is the first museum in modern Russia dedicated to the tragic World War I period (1914–1917). It is located in the Sovereign’s Martial Chamber, conceived by Emperor Nicholas II as a pantheon of military glory.
The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
10:30–17:30 
St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is an outstanding monument to late Russian classicism from the mid-nineteenth century.
The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Colonnades) separately.
The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Colonnades) separately.
24 May
10:30–17:30 
Church of the Saviour on Blood
A unique monument to Alexander II The Liberator, the Church of the Saviour on Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ) is a stand-out architectural landmark in the centre of St. Petersburg.
The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the church.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the church.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
11:00–16:30 
Museum of Applied Art, St. Petersburg Stieglitz School of Art and Design
The exhibition, which sprawls across 14 halls of the museum, boasts about 2,000 items. In the entrance hall, which opens the exhibition, visitors can enjoy temporary installations consisting of items from the museum’s collections. The small Italian galleries display unique examples of furniture from various historical periods. The Teremok Hall features examples of Russian applied art, including costumes, a collection of Russian folk dolls, printed textiles, forged metal items, and furniture. The collection of Western European ceramics and porcelain consists of a wide and diverse range of pieces: German stoneware from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Italian maiolica from the sixteenth century, unique porcelains from Berlin, Meissen, and Sèvres dating from the eighteenth century, and much more.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
11:00–17:00 
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
The museum presents the traditional cultures of peoples from around the world (Native Americans, Eskimos, Japanese, Indians, Mongols, etc.) as well as some of the first natural science collections, which date back to the time of Peter the Great. The Mikhail Lomonosov and the Eighteenth-Century Academy of Sciences exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the history of Russian science. There is also an option to enjoy guided tours of the First Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences and the Gottorp (Greater Academic) Globe exhibits. The museum is currently presenting the following temporary exhibit: Dervishes: Images and Words.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
11:00–22:00 
Come aboard the legendary icebreaker Krasin
This tour will take you on an amazing journey through the pages of the history of the Russian icebreaker fleet and Arctic exploration. The Krasin was built in 1917 in England by order of the Government of the Russian Empire. It went on to participate in Arctic rescue expeditions and came to the aid of civilian vessels. It circumnavigated the world twice, spent the entirety of World War II guiding polar convoys, heroically worked on the Northern Sea Route, and explored oil and gas fields on the Russian Arctic shelf. In 1928, the crew of the icebreaker was awarded the highest honour of the Soviet Union for rescuing the crew of Italian aeronauts led by the famous polar explorer, inventor, and general Umberto Nobile, who had become stranded when their airship, the Italia, crashed off the coast of Spitsbergen.
Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access. Participants in other categories can purchase admission at a reduced price on presentation of their badge.
Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access. Participants in other categories can purchase admission at a reduced price on presentation of their badge.
24 May
12:00–18:00 
Manuscript Treasures of the East on the Banks of the Neva
This exhibition presents manuscript masterpieces from the Near and Far East. The Institute’s manuscript collection is one of the largest in the world, and the biggest in Russia. It includes more than 115,000 items in 65 dead and living languages. The unique collection is housed in the luxurious interiors of the New Michael Palace, a striking example of nineteenth-century palace architecture.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
24 May
12:00–19:00 
Gavrila Derzhavin Estate Museum
The Gavrila Derzhavin Estate Museum is a unique cultural heritage site that was restored between 2003 and 2011. The complex consists of a mansion in which the poet lived from 1791 to 1816, the House Theatre, and the Greenhouse and Garden.
The poet’s house (central building) contains the Museum of Gavrila Derzhavin and the Russian Literature of His Time. The literary heritage exhibits occupy 16 interior rooms, including the room where members of the Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word met, as well as the poet’s office, kitchen, and ice cellar. The exhibits include books and manuscripts, as well as works of fine, decorative, and applied art.
In the eastern building is the literary exhibit The Players of the Russian Lyre. From Gavrila Derzhavin to Alexander Pushkin, featuring paintings, engravings, arts and crafts, coins and medallions, and portrait galleries of figures from the literature, history, and culture of the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The western building houses the exhibits In the White Lustre of Porcelain and National Pushkin Museum: Through the Pages of History, which recount the museum’s history of over 100 years. There are also two more exhibits: Pushkin on the Playbill: The Poet on the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Stage and Pushkin’s Fairy Tales.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
The poet’s house (central building) contains the Museum of Gavrila Derzhavin and the Russian Literature of His Time. The literary heritage exhibits occupy 16 interior rooms, including the room where members of the Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word met, as well as the poet’s office, kitchen, and ice cellar. The exhibits include books and manuscripts, as well as works of fine, decorative, and applied art.
In the eastern building is the literary exhibit The Players of the Russian Lyre. From Gavrila Derzhavin to Alexander Pushkin, featuring paintings, engravings, arts and crafts, coins and medallions, and portrait galleries of figures from the literature, history, and culture of the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The western building houses the exhibits In the White Lustre of Porcelain and National Pushkin Museum: Through the Pages of History, which recount the museum’s history of over 100 years. There are also two more exhibits: Pushkin on the Playbill: The Poet on the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Stage and Pushkin’s Fairy Tales.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
13:00–21:00 
Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
Diverse in materials and themes but with a single cultural and historical focus, this exhibition tells the story of significant events in Russian history using over 400 exhibits from the visual and applied arts. It features paintings and graphic works, sculpture, porcelain, glassware, works of applied art, costumes, and archival documents.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
13:00–21:00 
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
Drawn from the collections of the Russian State Museum, the State Hermitage, and private owners, the approximately 350 examples of domestic ceramics dating from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1990s in this exhibition trace the new artistic approaches and motifs applied by artists over various periods of national history, and explore how the portrayal of sports and a healthy lifestyle in the visual arts has changed.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
14:00–20:00 
Caution: Children at Play! Exhibition Project
Over 110 artisans, including painters, drawing artists, sculptors, and video artist participate in this exhibition project. All of them belong to different generations representing different traditions: traditional classical art, underground art, primitivism and hyperrealism, as well as many other trends gaining ground in contemporary visual art. Among the participants, one can find both famous names and young authors: Nikolay Ionin (1890-1948), Nikolay Andronov (1929-98), Oleg Tselkov (born 1934), Ilya Kabakov (born 1933), Oskar Rabin (born 1928), Solomon Rossin (born 1937), Maxim Kantor (born 1957), Vladimir Dubosarsky (born 1964), Leonid Tskhe (born 1983) and many others. Every artist has their own journey, their own childhood and their own memories of it.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
24 May
16:00–20:00 
A Twenty-First Century Library in the Historic Building of the Holy Governing Synod
The Presidential Library is one of the most important information, cultural, and educational centres in Russia. The tour will introduce visitors to the historical interiors of the Synod building and the modern halls of the Presidential Library, which were designed to host public and state events. The latter spaces include a conference hall and a multimedia, multipurpose hall, which are equipped with the latest technology, including 3D projection equipment. Part of the tour will feature a presentation of the library’s electronic collections in the Electronic Reading Room and on the Internet portal. These collections consist of materials on the history of Russia; the theory and practice of Russian statehood; and Russian language, literature, geography, and law. Visitors will have a chance to visit both temporary and permanent exhibits in the Constitution Hall, which houses the only inaugural copy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Guided tours will be conducted twice a day:
– at 16:00 and 19:00 on 24 and 26 May
– at 16:00 and 17:30 on 25 May
Groups should assemble and participants should meet their guides in the main foyer of the Presidential Library.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 participant badge to join the tour.
Guided tours will be conducted twice a day:
– at 16:00 and 19:00 on 24 and 26 May
– at 16:00 and 17:30 on 25 May
Groups should assemble and participants should meet their guides in the main foyer of the Presidential Library.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 participant badge to join the tour.
24 May
16:00–21:00 
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s stature as a genius of the twentieth century is more clearly evident today than ever. His impact on the culture of his era places him in the company of such artistic figures as Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, and Wassily Kandinsky. This exhibition in the halls of the Benois Wing displays the artist’s works in stages, celebrating all periods of his creative life through both known and forgotten pieces drawn from the collections of numerous museums and private collections. Among the works featured are such masterpieces as Bathing of the Red Horse, The Mother of God, Softener of Evil Hearts, Petrograd Madonna, Death of a Commissar, Alarm, and others.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
24 May
18:00–19:15 
Concert by AUN J CLASSIC ORCHESTRA, a Japanese group that plays traditional instruments
The famous Japanese group AUN J Classic Orchestra will perform in St. Petersburg for the first time. The audience will have a rare opportunity to hear the sounds of authentic Japanese string, wind, and percussion instruments. The eight musicians will present a programme of popular classics, film music, and traditional Japanese works.
Premium and Standard package holders can attend the event by invitation. You can find detailed information in your personal web office.
Premium and Standard package holders can attend the event by invitation. You can find detailed information in your personal web office.
24 May
19:00–21:45 
The Marriage of Figaro
Love, passion, intrigue, comic situations, and practical jokes. The players of the On Mokhovaya Academic Theatre offer a modern reading of Beaumarchais’ brilliant vaudeville The Marriage of Figaro. Students from the Institute of Performing Arts bring their youthful enthusiasm, creative excitement, and improvisation skills to bear in their portrayals of the characters in this timeless work of eighteenth-century literature. Director: Alexander Stavisky.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
24 May
19:00–21:00 
Indian Reception
Guests at the reception will enjoy a taste of Indian culture, art, and cuisine.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
19:00–00:00 
M-1 Challenge International Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Tournament
Challenge 92 spectators will see 12 exciting, iron-willed duels fought in accordance with the MMA rules. The most talented, decorated, and entertaining MMA fighters from around the world will step into the hexagonal ring to take each other on, seeking to claim the title of strongest fighter on the planet. International MMA legend Sergei Kharitonov will enter the ring for the main fight of the evening.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
19:00–22:15 
Raymonda
The sweeping multi-act ballet Raymonda is one of the treasures of the Mariinsky Theatre repertoire. Choreographed by Marius Petipa in 1898, it successfully combines large classical ensembles, colourful character dances, spectacular genre scenes, and the use of pantomime. This late masterpiece by Petipa is a test of the professionalism and acting skills of any ballet company.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
24 May
19:00–20:45 
The Governor
A play by Andrey Moguchy based on a short story by Leonid Andreyev.
The protagonist of the play, a town governor, re-examines his order to open fire on a crowd of striking workers. The governor conducts a painful conversation with his conscience, anticipating his inevitable death.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
The protagonist of the play, a town governor, re-examines his order to open fire on a crowd of striking workers. The governor conducts a painful conversation with his conscience, anticipating his inevitable death.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
24 May
19:00–21:30 
Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra Concert
The concert programme of the Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra features music from the repertoire of famous American big bands, original arrangements of jazz standards, and works by Russian composers. A special place in the programme is dedicated to compositions by St. Petersburg jazz musicians, including Gennadi Goldstein and Ruslan Khain. The talented arrangements by Serge Bogdanov, the orchestra’s brilliant soloists, all famous Petersburg-based musicians, the maestro David Goloshchekin himself, and the young jazz artists produce a unique take on the ‘mainstream’ jazz sound.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
24 May
19:00–22:00 
The First International Circus Art Festival Na Fontanke
On 24–27 May, Russia’s first permanent circus will host the First International Festival of Circus Art Na Fontanke. The famous arena of the oldest circus in the country will feature best circus performers from over 17 different countries. Edgar Zapashny will be the festival presenter. Contemporary and classic performances, competence and artistic skill of the participants will offer the residents and guests of St. Petersburg an unforgettable encounter with the magic art of circus.
The programme features:
- National equestrian games of Galkynysh Group directed by Pygy Bayramdurdyev (Turkmenistan).
- Aerial gymnasts on straps The Desire of Flight, Valery Sychev and Ekaterina Abakarova (Russia)
- Gamo Brothers, Icarian Games (Ethiopia)
- Balance on trapeze (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Indian Elephants show directed by the Gärtners family (Germany)
- The Empire of Lionesses show directed by Vitaly Smolyanets (Russia)
- Strahlemann & Sohne, jugglers (Germany)
- Les Freres Taquins, visual comedy (Belgium)
- Dan and Konstantin, Balance, hand to hand (Romania)
- Trampoline acrobats directed by Anatoly Ruban (Russia)
- Housch-ma-housch, comedian (Germany)
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
The programme features:
- National equestrian games of Galkynysh Group directed by Pygy Bayramdurdyev (Turkmenistan).
- Aerial gymnasts on straps The Desire of Flight, Valery Sychev and Ekaterina Abakarova (Russia)
- Gamo Brothers, Icarian Games (Ethiopia)
- Balance on trapeze (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Indian Elephants show directed by the Gärtners family (Germany)
- The Empire of Lionesses show directed by Vitaly Smolyanets (Russia)
- Strahlemann & Sohne, jugglers (Germany)
- Les Freres Taquins, visual comedy (Belgium)
- Dan and Konstantin, Balance, hand to hand (Romania)
- Trampoline acrobats directed by Anatoly Ruban (Russia)
- Housch-ma-housch, comedian (Germany)
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
24 May
19:30–23:00 
Maximum Culture international evening of art for young creatives
Roskulttsentr and Future Team, with support from the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), presents the first Maximum Culture international evening of art. Event participants, among whom will be representatives from art clusters right across Russia, will learn more about the organization’s key projects, including the popular Tavrida National Youth Educational Forum, which brings together thousands of young creatives every year. Participants will also have an opportunity to network in an informal setting and listen to presentations by speakers from the worlds of culture and art.
Premium and Standard Package participants can attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Premium and Standard Package participants can attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
19:30–21:20 
Laurencia
Music by Alexander Krein.
Choreography by Vakhtang Chabukiani, revised by Mikhail Messerer.
Featuring Ivan Vasiliev.
Laurencia features a special type of Russian choreography, the so-called ‘Stalinist classicism’. It is a magnificent, spectacular, ‘theatrical’ performance in the most exalted sense of the word. The emotional intensity and the swiftness of the action, which is reminiscent of a tempered steel spring, are transmitted through the striking language of dance, where classical movements are fused with fiery Spanish rhythms. The ballet features virtuoso solos and duets, harmonious ensembles, and spectacular crowd scenes. A dramatic story unfolds through raucous dance, where the joy of reciprocated love is rudely destroyed by violence, in turn setting off an explosion of popular anger. The plot is based on the play Fuenteovejuna by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Choreography by Vakhtang Chabukiani, revised by Mikhail Messerer.
Featuring Ivan Vasiliev.
Laurencia features a special type of Russian choreography, the so-called ‘Stalinist classicism’. It is a magnificent, spectacular, ‘theatrical’ performance in the most exalted sense of the word. The emotional intensity and the swiftness of the action, which is reminiscent of a tempered steel spring, are transmitted through the striking language of dance, where classical movements are fused with fiery Spanish rhythms. The ballet features virtuoso solos and duets, harmonious ensembles, and spectacular crowd scenes. A dramatic story unfolds through raucous dance, where the joy of reciprocated love is rudely destroyed by violence, in turn setting off an explosion of popular anger. The plot is based on the play Fuenteovejuna by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
24 May
20:00–22:30 
What? Where? When?
Alexander Drouz will host the intellectual game show What? Where? When? with guest Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, a descendant of the famous explorer. They will discuss the topic: Papua New Guinea: Land of the Future. Players and audience members will have the opportunity to broaden their horizons and enjoy puzzling over the questions during the course of this smart game show, and will surely come away with a lot of memories to last a lifetime. It’s cool to be smart!
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation and must register in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation and must register in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
20:00–23:00 
Grand opening of Space. Human Stories
The grand opening of the Space. Human Stories exhibition, which is dedicated to the figures who made an invaluable contribution to Russian space exploration and those who worked ‘behind the scenes’ of the USSR’s march to space. Visitors will learn about several stories from the creators of the Soviet space programme and will be able to view unique documents and artefacts related to the programme. Works by contemporary artists on the theme of space will be presented in a new dedicated space.
Legendary cosmonauts are expected to attend the opening of the exhibition.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Legendary cosmonauts are expected to attend the opening of the exhibition.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
21:00–00:00 
Invitation from Russian Seasons: concert by Boris Berezovsky
The international cultural project Russian Seasons invites guests to an evening reception featuring a performance by the outstanding contemporary pianist Boris Berezovsky.
Boris Berezovsky is an Honoured Artist of Russia and one of the world’s most popular pianists. He holds the highly respectable title of Steinway Artist. As a player, he is noted for his virtuosity, perfect execution, subtle and rich dynamics, and the variety of his repertoire. Boris Berezovsky has participated in the largest international music festivals in Russia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Japan, and the US. His engagements for the 2018 and 2019 seasons include performances at world-class concert venues, and solo tours in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
The event will be held in the inner courtyard of the Mikhailovsky Theatre.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation.
Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Boris Berezovsky is an Honoured Artist of Russia and one of the world’s most popular pianists. He holds the highly respectable title of Steinway Artist. As a player, he is noted for his virtuosity, perfect execution, subtle and rich dynamics, and the variety of his repertoire. Boris Berezovsky has participated in the largest international music festivals in Russia, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Japan, and the US. His engagements for the 2018 and 2019 seasons include performances at world-class concert venues, and solo tours in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
The event will be held in the inner courtyard of the Mikhailovsky Theatre.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation.
Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
24 May
21:00–22:30 
A symphony concert
This symphony concert “with a French accent” will feature classical French pieces by Claude Debussy, with solo cello performances by long-time favourite of St. Petersburg audiences Gautier Capuçon. Conducting the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra will be Valery Gergiev.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
06:00–00:00 
Kirov Central Park of Culture and Recreation
The Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Sergei Kirov is the oldest park in St. Petersburg. Its architecture and layout are a masterpiece of the early 19th century landscape design, created by the famous architect Carlo Rossi. In its contemporary period, the Park combines beauty and sophistication of the previous centuries with possibilities of casual recreation for residents and guests of St. Petersburg. Every year the Park hosts the best open-air events of the summer. Tulip blossom season is a highlight of Yelagin Island. In 2018, the tulips are in blossom on 10–26 May.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
25 May
09:00–22:00 
Catherine and Alexander Parks
The magnificent palace complex at Tsarskoye Selo would not be complete without its parks, the most important of which, Catherine and Alexander, are named after the palaces that grace their grounds.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
09:00–20:00 
Peterhof State Museum-Reserve
The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is the capital of fountains. It attracts thousands of tourists every year. Forum guests will be able to enjoy the Lower Park, one of the most beautiful parks in Europe. It is graced by 150 completely different fountains: from colossal cascades, including the Grand Cascade that features the famous statue of Samson in the centre of the ensemble, to trick fountains, which delight children and adults alike.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
25 May
10:00–20:15 
The Fabergé Museum
The Fabergé Museum, in the Shuvalov Palace, houses the world’s largest collection of works by the House of Fabergé. Here you can not only appreciate the exquisite jewellery masterpieces from the Imperial Easter Series commissioned by the two last Russian Emperors, but also cabinet gifts, lapidary art, silver, enamel, and jewelled Russian icons, all crafts in which Fabergé specialized.
Premium package holders can present their SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must independently pay for excursions and other additional services.
Premium package holders can present their SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must independently pay for excursions and other additional services.
25 May
10:00–18:00 
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s stature as a genius of the twentieth century is more clearly evident today than ever. His impact on the culture of his era places him in the company of such artistic figures as Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, and Wassily Kandinsky. This exhibition in the halls of the Benois Wing displays the artist’s works in stages, celebrating all periods of his creative life through both known and forgotten pieces drawn from the collections of numerous museums and private collections. Among the works featured are such masterpieces as Bathing of the Red Horse, The Mother of God, Softener of Evil Hearts, Petrograd Madonna, Death of a Commissar, Alarm, and others.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–18:00 
Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
Diverse in materials and themes but with a single cultural and historical focus, this exhibition tells the story of significant events in Russian history using over 400 exhibits from the visual and applied arts. It features paintings and graphic works, sculpture, porcelain, glassware, works of applied art, costumes, and archival documents.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–18:00 
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
Drawn from the collections of the Russian State Museum, the State Hermitage, and private owners, the approximately 350 examples of domestic ceramics dating from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1990s in this exhibition trace the new artistic approaches and motifs applied by artists over various periods of national history, and explore how the portrayal of sports and a healthy lifestyle in the visual arts has changed.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–18:00 
Pavlovsk State Museum
Pavlovsk Palace and Park constitutes a monument to the architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The prominent architects, decorators, and painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who contributed to its creation include Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna, Andrey Voronikhin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Carlo Rossi, Pietro Gonzaga, and others.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–17:00 
Tsarskoye Selo 1917: On the eve ...
This exhibition describes the life of the Tsarskoye Selo residence from February to October 1917, the period between the two revolutions. This was a time when one era (the monarchy) was drawing to a close and a new era, full of revolutionary upheavals, was dawning. At that time, the residence at Tsarskoye Selo still existed but it had already lost its imperial status. The last Russian emperor and his family were still living in the Alexander Palace, but he was now citizen Romanov, held under house arrest by the Provisional Government. Starting in spring 1917, an Artistic and Historical Commission was set up at the Imperial Palace of Tsarskoye Selo to inventory the newly nationalized property and create a museum in the former residence.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–17:00 
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection exhibition, curated in conjunction with the State Hermitage Museum, first opened in 2016. The exhibited items include a collection of Eastern bladed weapons, firearms from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and European arms and equipment from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including armour, helmets, halberds, swords, and horse harnesses. The State Hermitage contributed some rare items from its collection for temporary display, including some sixteenth-century armour from Nicholas I’s collection.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–17:00 
Russia in the Great War Museum
This is the first museum in modern Russia dedicated to the tragic World War I period (1914–1917). It is located in the Sovereign’s Martial Chamber, conceived by Emperor Nicholas II as a pantheon of military glory.
The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
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The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–22:00 
2018 Sand Sculpture Festival
An annual sand sculpture festival is held outside on the beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, amazing visitors year after year with its grand scale and superb craftsmanship.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the festival.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–18:00 
Art Nouveau of St. Petersburg
This exhibition is devoted to one of the most interesting periods in the cultural history of St. Petersburg: the turn of the twentieth century, which is often called the Art Nouveau period.
A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:00–19:00 
State Museum of Political History of Russia
The museum’s central exhibition, Man and State Power in Russia from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries, presents a comprehensive interpretation of Russian political history from the time of Catherine II to the present day. The 12 sections of the exhibit reflect the key events in the country’s history: political regime changes and wars, revolutions and reforms, and periods of government liberalization as well as periods of strengthening dictatorship. Exhibits and works of art, eyewitness accounts, and ‘voices from history’ show how the actions of those who held the reins of power, as well as those of the most ordinary people, influenced the course of history.
The new permanent exhibit The Empire on the Way to Modernization is devoted to the most important political, economic, and social changes that took place in the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how these changes influenced people’s lives. The unique items and multimedia tools describe the internal and external factors that pushed the authorities to reform. The heroes of the exhibit include reformers and retrogrades, as well as revolutionaries and defenders of traditional values. Each had their own ideas about the ways in which the country should develop.
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The new permanent exhibit The Empire on the Way to Modernization is devoted to the most important political, economic, and social changes that took place in the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how these changes influenced people’s lives. The unique items and multimedia tools describe the internal and external factors that pushed the authorities to reform. The heroes of the exhibit include reformers and retrogrades, as well as revolutionaries and defenders of traditional values. Each had their own ideas about the ways in which the country should develop.
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25 May
10:30–17:30 
Church of the Saviour on Blood
A unique monument to Alexander II The Liberator, the Church of the Saviour on Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ) is a stand-out architectural landmark in the centre of St. Petersburg.
The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
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The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
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25 May
10:30–17:30 
St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is an outstanding monument to late Russian classicism from the mid-nineteenth century.
The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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25 May
10:30–21:00 
Innovation as a Method
Artists working with innovative artistic language will present works in which the interrelation of artistic thought, new physical materials, and technological processes is examined. Among the themes addressed by participants in the exhibition are artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and blockchain.
Some of the works have been created in cooperation with a number of scientific laboratories. These include joint projects between: Dmitri Gutov and the Russian Quantum Centre (Moscow), Pavel Pepperstein and the ChemRar High-Tech Centre (Moscow), and Kostya Novoselov and the National Graphene Institute (Manchester).
Artists: Kevin Abosch (US), Siebren Versteeg (US), Dmitri Gutov (Russia), Dmitry Kawarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), the Where Dogs Run creative collective (Russia), Misha MOST (Russia), Kostya Novoselov (UK), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Daniel Rozin (US), Martha Fiennes (UK), Bjoern Schuelke (Germany), and Stain (Russia).
Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum), Victoria Kondrashova (RDI. Creative Company).
The exhibition will be open until 3 June 2018
A ticket to the State Hermitage Museum, purchased at the museum’s ticket offices, will grant automatic access to this exhibition.
Some of the works have been created in cooperation with a number of scientific laboratories. These include joint projects between: Dmitri Gutov and the Russian Quantum Centre (Moscow), Pavel Pepperstein and the ChemRar High-Tech Centre (Moscow), and Kostya Novoselov and the National Graphene Institute (Manchester).
Artists: Kevin Abosch (US), Siebren Versteeg (US), Dmitri Gutov (Russia), Dmitry Kawarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), the Where Dogs Run creative collective (Russia), Misha MOST (Russia), Kostya Novoselov (UK), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Daniel Rozin (US), Martha Fiennes (UK), Bjoern Schuelke (Germany), and Stain (Russia).
Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum), Victoria Kondrashova (RDI. Creative Company).
The exhibition will be open until 3 June 2018
A ticket to the State Hermitage Museum, purchased at the museum’s ticket offices, will grant automatic access to this exhibition.
25 May
11:00–22:00 
Come aboard the legendary icebreaker Krasin
This tour will take you on an amazing journey through the pages of the history of the Russian icebreaker fleet and Arctic exploration. The Krasin was built in 1917 in England by order of the Government of the Russian Empire. It went on to participate in Arctic rescue expeditions and came to the aid of civilian vessels. It circumnavigated the world twice, spent the entirety of World War II guiding polar convoys, heroically worked on the Northern Sea Route, and explored oil and gas fields on the Russian Arctic shelf. In 1928, the crew of the icebreaker was awarded the highest honour of the Soviet Union for rescuing the crew of Italian aeronauts led by the famous polar explorer, inventor, and general Umberto Nobile, who had become stranded when their airship, the Italia, crashed off the coast of Spitsbergen.
Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access. Participants in other categories can purchase admission at a reduced price on presentation of their badge.
Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access. Participants in other categories can purchase admission at a reduced price on presentation of their badge.
25 May
11:00–16:30 
Museum of Applied Art, St. Petersburg Stieglitz School of Art and Design
The exhibition, which sprawls across 14 halls of the museum, boasts about 2,000 items. In the entrance hall, which opens the exhibition, visitors can enjoy temporary installations consisting of items from the museum’s collections. The small Italian galleries display unique examples of furniture from various historical periods. The Teremok Hall features examples of Russian applied art, including costumes, a collection of Russian folk dolls, printed textiles, forged metal items, and furniture. The collection of Western European ceramics and porcelain consists of a wide and diverse range of pieces: German stoneware from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Italian maiolica from the sixteenth century, unique porcelains from Berlin, Meissen, and Sèvres dating from the eighteenth century, and much more.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
25 May
11:00–17:00 
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
The museum presents the traditional cultures of peoples from around the world (Native Americans, Eskimos, Japanese, Indians, Mongols, etc.) as well as some of the first natural science collections, which date back to the time of Peter the Great. The Mikhail Lomonosov and the Eighteenth-Century Academy of Sciences exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the history of Russian science. There is also an option to enjoy guided tours of the First Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences and the Gottorp (Greater Academic) Globe exhibits. The museum is currently presenting the following temporary exhibit: Dervishes: Images and Words.
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Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the museum.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
11:00–20:00 
Space. Human Stories
The Space. Human Stories exhibition is dedicated to the figures who made an invaluable contribution to Russian space exploration and those who worked ‘behind the scenes’ of the USSR’s march to space. Visitors will learn about several stories from the creators of the Soviet space programme and will be able to view unique documents and artefacts related to the programme. Rare materials from private archives will be presented for the first time. Works by contemporary artists on the theme of space will be presented in a new dedicated space.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
25 May
14:00–20:00 
Caution: Children at Play! Exhibition Project
Over 110 artisans, including painters, drawing artists, sculptors, and video artist participate in this exhibition project. All of them belong to different generations representing different traditions: traditional classical art, underground art, primitivism and hyperrealism, as well as many other trends gaining ground in contemporary visual art. Among the participants, one can find both famous names and young authors: Nikolay Ionin (1890-1948), Nikolay Andronov (1929-98), Oleg Tselkov (born 1934), Ilya Kabakov (born 1933), Oskar Rabin (born 1928), Solomon Rossin (born 1937), Maxim Kantor (born 1957), Vladimir Dubosarsky (born 1964), Leonid Tskhe (born 1983) and many others. Every artist has their own journey, their own childhood and their own memories of it.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
25 May
16:00–20:00 
Manuscript Treasures of the East on the Banks of the Neva
This exhibition presents manuscript masterpieces from the Near and Far East. The Institute’s manuscript collection is one of the largest in the world, and the biggest in Russia. It includes more than 115,000 items in 65 dead and living languages. The unique collection is housed in the luxurious interiors of the New Michael Palace, a striking example of nineteenth-century palace architecture.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
25 May
16:00–18:30 
A Twenty-First Century Library in the Historic Building of the Holy Governing Synod
The Presidential Library is one of the most important information, cultural, and educational centres in Russia. The tour will introduce visitors to the historical interiors of the Synod building and the modern halls of the Presidential Library, which were designed to host public and state events. The latter spaces include a conference hall and a multimedia, multipurpose hall, which are equipped with the latest technology, including 3D projection equipment. Part of the tour will feature a presentation of the library’s electronic collections in the Electronic Reading Room and on the Internet portal. These collections consist of materials on the history of Russia; the theory and practice of Russian statehood; and Russian language, literature, geography, and law. Visitors will have a chance to visit both temporary and permanent exhibits in the Constitution Hall, which houses the only inaugural copy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Guided tours will be conducted twice a day:
– at 16:00 and 19:00 on 24 and 26 May
– at 16:00 and 17:30 on 25 May
Groups should assemble and participants should meet their guides in the main foyer of the Presidential Library.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 participant badge to join the tour.
Guided tours will be conducted twice a day:
– at 16:00 and 19:00 on 24 and 26 May
– at 16:00 and 17:30 on 25 May
Groups should assemble and participants should meet their guides in the main foyer of the Presidential Library.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 participant badge to join the tour.
25 May
18:45–21:50 
Faceless
This immersive show is total immersion theatre, in which you will be transformed from a mere observer into a participant. Faceless does not include any traditional stage scenes, and the audience is not passive. The action takes place simultaneously on four floors of an old mansion, and the members of the audience decide who to follow and where to go.
An important element of the show is a mask that hides the faces of the mansion’s guests. Whatever happens, you can be sure that the mask guarantees the characters a measure of safety, anonymity, and, possibly, the ability to act with impunity.
The script for the immersive show was inspired by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts.
Personal experiences form a special part of the show: they provide an opportunity for audience members to communicate with the characters one-on-one.
Visitors are admitted to the show in groups every 15 minutes between 18:45 and 20:00.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
An important element of the show is a mask that hides the faces of the mansion’s guests. Whatever happens, you can be sure that the mask guarantees the characters a measure of safety, anonymity, and, possibly, the ability to act with impunity.
The script for the immersive show was inspired by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts.
Personal experiences form a special part of the show: they provide an opportunity for audience members to communicate with the characters one-on-one.
Visitors are admitted to the show in groups every 15 minutes between 18:45 and 20:00.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
19:00–20:30 
Charity gala concert: The Music of Love. A Tribute to St. Petersburg
This gala concert of outstanding artists will benefit children who receive support from the Roditelsky Most Charitable Foundation, whose motto is: ‘Every child deserves to live in a family’.
The concert programme features: People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Sergei Roldugin (cello), whose playing has a beautiful timbre; world opera star, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, and Mariinsky Theatre soloist Vladimir Galuzin (tenor); international competition winners Nataliya Tymchenko (soprano), Maria Chernova (piano), Dmitry Myachin (piano), and Diana Kazanlieva (soprano); the winners of the Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers; and other talented musicians, as well as students from the Vaganova Ballet Academy.
The programme features international classical highlights, from Bach to the present day.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Please note that a passport is required for admission to the Presidential Library.
The concert programme features: People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Sergei Roldugin (cello), whose playing has a beautiful timbre; world opera star, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, and Mariinsky Theatre soloist Vladimir Galuzin (tenor); international competition winners Nataliya Tymchenko (soprano), Maria Chernova (piano), Dmitry Myachin (piano), and Diana Kazanlieva (soprano); the winners of the Elena Obraztsova International Competition of Young Opera Singers; and other talented musicians, as well as students from the Vaganova Ballet Academy.
The programme features international classical highlights, from Bach to the present day.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Please note that a passport is required for admission to the Presidential Library.
25 May
19:00–21:00 
Concert by the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden with Denis Matsuev (piano)
One of the leading symphonic groups in Germany, the orchestra of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, under the baton of Christian Thielemann, will perform at the Mariinsky Theatre for the first time. The concert programme features music of the Romantic era, including works by Weber, Liszt, and Brahms. Denis Matsuev will perform the solo in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
19:00–20:30 
Concert by the Chorus Teatro Regio Torino (Turin, Italy)
The Chorus Teatro Regio Torino and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra: two well-known collectives of the operatic stage, one Italian and one Russian. When they meet under the roof of a single concert venue, then it is already an event. The programme selected for this joint performance features choral music from nineteenth-century Italian opera. The material will allow both groups to play freely and festively. The Italians, it seems, have been absorbing these fiery melodies since birth. These were the melodies that inspired the Italian people to rise up and fight for the unification of their fragmented country. They are well known to the Mariinsky Orchestra, since many of Verdi’s operas form part of the repertoire of the St. Petersburg theatre. In fact, no other theatre in Russia performs Verdi’s works more frequently.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
25 May
19:00–21:15 
The Storm
Andrey Moguchy’s The Storm, which is based on the play by Alexander Ostrovsky, is a story about love and liberation. In Moguchy’s interpretation, the play is a dark farce. It resembles a Palekh box that opens up the dark depths of human fears.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
19:00–21:00 
Flor de lino
The Terem Quartet will be joined by Argentine tenor Carlos d’Onofrio and Cuban percussionist Yoel Gonzalez Portilla to perform a programme of works entitled Flor de lino, including the best examples of Russian and Latin American love songs.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
19:00–23:00 
Concert by the group Neschastny Sluchai and multimedia light show
The latest technologies will be integrated into the ancient interiors of the cathedral building, which has a 300-year history. During the light show, guests will experience interesting turns of history, intertwining events and epochs, the city’s classical architecture and its modern appearance. St. Anna Lutheran Cathedral is also remembered as a venue for the screening of Soviet-era films and Leningrad rock club concerts. Guests will be reminded that though we are now surrounded by the latest technologies wherever we go, it is also important to preserve and restore our cultural heritage.
To cap off the evening, Neschastny Sluchai’s irreplaceable front man, Alexey Kortnev, will ascend to the stage and perform his favourite songs together with the audience.
Premium and Standard Package participants can attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
To cap off the evening, Neschastny Sluchai’s irreplaceable front man, Alexey Kortnev, will ascend to the stage and perform his favourite songs together with the audience.
Premium and Standard Package participants can attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
25 May
19:00–20:30 
Gala performance to mark the 200th anniversary of Marius Petipa’s birth
This festive gala performance to mark the 200th anniversary of Marius Petipa’s birth brings together productions by different generations of ballet masters. Excerpts of ballets by Petipa that represent the best the Mariinsky repertoire has to offer will be performed. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century choreography is full of works that were inspired by Petipa and further develop the ideas of the great master.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
19:00–22:00 
The First International Circus Art Festival Na Fontanke
On 24–27 May, Russia’s first permanent circus will host the First International Festival of Circus Art Na Fontanke. The famous arena of the oldest circus in the country will feature best circus performers from over 17 different countries. Edgar Zapashny will be the festival presenter. Contemporary and classic performances, competence and artistic skill of the participants will offer the residents and guests of St. Petersburg an unforgettable encounter with the magic art of circus.
The programme features:
- National equestrian games of Galkynysh Group directed by Pygy Bayramdurdyev (Turkmenistan).
- Aerial gymnasts on straps The Desire of Flight, Valery Sychev and Ekaterina Abakarova (Russia)
- Gamo Brothers, Icarian Games (Ethiopia)
- Balance on trapeze (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Indian Elephants show directed by the Gärtners family (Germany)
- The Empire of Lionesses show directed by Vitaly Smolyanets (Russia)
- Strahlemann & Sohne, jugglers (Germany)
- Les Freres Taquins, visual comedy (Belgium)
- Dan and Konstantin, Balance, hand to hand (Romania)
- Trampoline acrobats directed by Anatoly Ruban (Russia)
- Housch-ma-housch, comedian (Germany)
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
The programme features:
- National equestrian games of Galkynysh Group directed by Pygy Bayramdurdyev (Turkmenistan).
- Aerial gymnasts on straps The Desire of Flight, Valery Sychev and Ekaterina Abakarova (Russia)
- Gamo Brothers, Icarian Games (Ethiopia)
- Balance on trapeze (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
- Indian Elephants show directed by the Gärtners family (Germany)
- The Empire of Lionesses show directed by Vitaly Smolyanets (Russia)
- Strahlemann & Sohne, jugglers (Germany)
- Les Freres Taquins, visual comedy (Belgium)
- Dan and Konstantin, Balance, hand to hand (Romania)
- Trampoline acrobats directed by Anatoly Ruban (Russia)
- Housch-ma-housch, comedian (Germany)
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
25 May
19:30–22:15 
La Fille mal gardée
Music by Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold.
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, a classic British ballet dancer and choreographer.
Featuring Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
The story of the charming Lise, who dreams of reuniting with her lover while her mother intends to give her hand in marriage to a rich though halfwit neighbour, forms the basis of this remarkable ballet performance. Cheerful and sparkling, La Fille mal gardée conquers audiences with its charm.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, a classic British ballet dancer and choreographer.
Featuring Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
The story of the charming Lise, who dreams of reuniting with her lover while her mother intends to give her hand in marriage to a rich though halfwit neighbour, forms the basis of this remarkable ballet performance. Cheerful and sparkling, La Fille mal gardée conquers audiences with its charm.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
25 May
20:00–22:00 
Sixth concert of the first season: Yuri Temirkanov and his Orchestra
The overture to the opera Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 – one of the masterpieces of the composer’s oeuvre with melodies of a distinctively Czech flavour – will be performed by the famous St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia. The soloist for the programme will be Nikita Lyutikov, who has won many international competitions. Chief Conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Jacek Kaspszyk will lead from the conductor’s stand.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
06:00–00:00 
Kirov Central Park of Culture and Recreation
The Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Sergei Kirov is the oldest park in St. Petersburg. Its architecture and layout are a masterpiece of the early 19th century landscape design, created by the famous architect Carlo Rossi. In its contemporary period, the Park combines beauty and sophistication of the previous centuries with possibilities of casual recreation for residents and guests of St. Petersburg. Every year the Park hosts the best open-air events of the summer. Tulip blossom season is a highlight of Yelagin Island. In 2018, the tulips are in blossom on 10–26 May.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
26 May
09:00–22:00 
Catherine and Alexander Parks
The magnificent palace complex at Tsarskoye Selo would not be complete without its parks, the most important of which, Catherine and Alexander, are named after the palaces that grace their grounds.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
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Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
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26 May
09:00–21:00 
Peterhof State Museum-Reserve
The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is the capital of fountains. It attracts thousands of tourists every year. Forum guests will be able to enjoy the Lower Park, one of the most beautiful parks in Europe. It is graced by 150 completely different fountains: from colossal cascades, including the Grand Cascade that features the famous statue of Samson in the centre of the ensemble, to trick fountains, which delight children and adults alike.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
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The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
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26 May
10:00–20:15 
The Fabergé Museum
The Fabergé Museum, in the Shuvalov Palace, houses the world’s largest collection of works by the House of Fabergé. Here you can not only appreciate the exquisite jewellery masterpieces from the Imperial Easter Series commissioned by the two last Russian Emperors, but also cabinet gifts, lapidary art, silver, enamel, and jewelled Russian icons, all crafts in which Fabergé specialized.
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26 May
10:00–17:00 
State Museum of Political History of Russia
The museum’s central exhibition, Man and State Power in Russia from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries, presents a comprehensive interpretation of Russian political history from the time of Catherine II to the present day. The 12 sections of the exhibit reflect the key events in the country’s history: political regime changes and wars, revolutions and reforms, and periods of government liberalization as well as periods of strengthening dictatorship. Exhibits and works of art, eyewitness accounts, and ‘voices from history’ show how the actions of those who held the reins of power, as well as those of the most ordinary people, influenced the course of history.
The new permanent exhibit The Empire on the Way to Modernization is devoted to the most important political, economic, and social changes that took place in the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how these changes influenced people’s lives. The unique items and multimedia tools describe the internal and external factors that pushed the authorities to reform. The heroes of the exhibit include reformers and retrogrades, as well as revolutionaries and defenders of traditional values. Each had their own ideas about the ways in which the country should develop.
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The new permanent exhibit The Empire on the Way to Modernization is devoted to the most important political, economic, and social changes that took place in the Russian Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and how these changes influenced people’s lives. The unique items and multimedia tools describe the internal and external factors that pushed the authorities to reform. The heroes of the exhibit include reformers and retrogrades, as well as revolutionaries and defenders of traditional values. Each had their own ideas about the ways in which the country should develop.
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26 May
10:00–18:00 
Manuscript Treasures of the East on the Banks of the Neva
This exhibition presents manuscript masterpieces from the Near and Far East. The Institute’s manuscript collection is one of the largest in the world, and the biggest in Russia. It includes more than 115,000 items in 65 dead and living languages. The unique collection is housed in the luxurious interiors of the New Michael Palace, a striking example of nineteenth-century palace architecture.
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26 May
10:00–18:00 
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s stature as a genius of the twentieth century is more clearly evident today than ever. His impact on the culture of his era places him in the company of such artistic figures as Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, and Wassily Kandinsky. This exhibition in the halls of the Benois Wing displays the artist’s works in stages, celebrating all periods of his creative life through both known and forgotten pieces drawn from the collections of numerous museums and private collections. Among the works featured are such masterpieces as Bathing of the Red Horse, The Mother of God, Softener of Evil Hearts, Petrograd Madonna, Death of a Commissar, Alarm, and others.
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26 May
10:00–18:00 
Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
Diverse in materials and themes but with a single cultural and historical focus, this exhibition tells the story of significant events in Russian history using over 400 exhibits from the visual and applied arts. It features paintings and graphic works, sculpture, porcelain, glassware, works of applied art, costumes, and archival documents.
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26 May
10:00–18:00 
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
Drawn from the collections of the Russian State Museum, the State Hermitage, and private owners, the approximately 350 examples of domestic ceramics dating from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1990s in this exhibition trace the new artistic approaches and motifs applied by artists over various periods of national history, and explore how the portrayal of sports and a healthy lifestyle in the visual arts has changed.
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26 May
10:00–18:00 
Art Nouveau of St. Petersburg
This exhibition is devoted to one of the most interesting periods in the cultural history of St. Petersburg: the turn of the twentieth century, which is often called the Art Nouveau period.
A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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26 May
10:00–18:00 
Pavlovsk State Museum
Pavlovsk Palace and Park constitutes a monument to the architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The prominent architects, decorators, and painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who contributed to its creation include Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna, Andrey Voronikhin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Carlo Rossi, Pietro Gonzaga, and others.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
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Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
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26 May
10:00–17:00 
Tsarskoye Selo 1917: On the eve ...
This exhibition describes the life of the Tsarskoye Selo residence from February to October 1917, the period between the two revolutions. This was a time when one era (the monarchy) was drawing to a close and a new era, full of revolutionary upheavals, was dawning. At that time, the residence at Tsarskoye Selo still existed but it had already lost its imperial status. The last Russian emperor and his family were still living in the Alexander Palace, but he was now citizen Romanov, held under house arrest by the Provisional Government. Starting in spring 1917, an Artistic and Historical Commission was set up at the Imperial Palace of Tsarskoye Selo to inventory the newly nationalized property and create a museum in the former residence.
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26 May
10:00–17:00 
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection exhibition, curated in conjunction with the State Hermitage Museum, first opened in 2016. The exhibited items include a collection of Eastern bladed weapons, firearms from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and European arms and equipment from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including armour, helmets, halberds, swords, and horse harnesses. The State Hermitage contributed some rare items from its collection for temporary display, including some sixteenth-century armour from Nicholas I’s collection.
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26 May
10:00–17:00 
Russia in the Great War Museum
This is the first museum in modern Russia dedicated to the tragic World War I period (1914–1917). It is located in the Sovereign’s Martial Chamber, conceived by Emperor Nicholas II as a pantheon of military glory.
The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
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The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
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26 May
10:00–22:00 
2018 Sand Sculpture Festival
An annual sand sculpture festival is held outside on the beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, amazing visitors year after year with its grand scale and superb craftsmanship.
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26 May
10:30–17:00 
Gavrila Derzhavin Estate Museum
The Gavrila Derzhavin Estate Museum is a unique cultural heritage site that was restored between 2003 and 2011. The complex consists of a mansion in which the poet lived from 1791 to 1816, the House Theatre, and the Greenhouse and Garden.
The poet’s house (central building) contains the Museum of Gavrila Derzhavin and the Russian Literature of His Time. The literary heritage exhibits occupy 16 interior rooms, including the room where members of the Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word met, as well as the poet’s office, kitchen, and ice cellar. The exhibits include books and manuscripts, as well as works of fine, decorative, and applied art.
In the eastern building is the literary exhibit The Players of the Russian Lyre. From Gavrila Derzhavin to Alexander Pushkin, featuring paintings, engravings, arts and crafts, coins and medallions, and portrait galleries of figures from the literature, history, and culture of the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The western building houses the exhibits In the White Lustre of Porcelain and National Pushkin Museum: Through the Pages of History, which recount the museum’s history of over 100 years. There are also two more exhibits: Pushkin on the Playbill: The Poet on the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Stage and Pushkin’s Fairy Tales.
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The poet’s house (central building) contains the Museum of Gavrila Derzhavin and the Russian Literature of His Time. The literary heritage exhibits occupy 16 interior rooms, including the room where members of the Colloquy of Lovers of the Russian Word met, as well as the poet’s office, kitchen, and ice cellar. The exhibits include books and manuscripts, as well as works of fine, decorative, and applied art.
In the eastern building is the literary exhibit The Players of the Russian Lyre. From Gavrila Derzhavin to Alexander Pushkin, featuring paintings, engravings, arts and crafts, coins and medallions, and portrait galleries of figures from the literature, history, and culture of the second half of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The western building houses the exhibits In the White Lustre of Porcelain and National Pushkin Museum: Through the Pages of History, which recount the museum’s history of over 100 years. There are also two more exhibits: Pushkin on the Playbill: The Poet on the Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Stage and Pushkin’s Fairy Tales.
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26 May
10:30–18:00 
Innovation as a Method
Artists working with innovative artistic language will present works in which the interrelation of artistic thought, new physical materials, and technological processes is examined. Among the themes addressed by participants in the exhibition are artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and blockchain.
Some of the works have been created in cooperation with a number of scientific laboratories. These include joint projects between: Dmitri Gutov and the Russian Quantum Centre (Moscow), Pavel Pepperstein and the ChemRar High-Tech Centre (Moscow), and Kostya Novoselov and the National Graphene Institute (Manchester).
Artists: Kevin Abosch (US), Siebren Versteeg (US), Dmitri Gutov (Russia), Dmitry Kawarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), the Where Dogs Run creative collective (Russia), Misha MOST (Russia), Kostya Novoselov (UK), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Daniel Rozin (US), Martha Fiennes (UK), Bjoern Schuelke (Germany), and Stain (Russia).
Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum), Victoria Kondrashova (RDI. Creative Company).
The exhibition will be open until 3 June 2018
A ticket to the State Hermitage Museum, purchased at the museum’s ticket offices, will grant automatic access to this exhibition.
Some of the works have been created in cooperation with a number of scientific laboratories. These include joint projects between: Dmitri Gutov and the Russian Quantum Centre (Moscow), Pavel Pepperstein and the ChemRar High-Tech Centre (Moscow), and Kostya Novoselov and the National Graphene Institute (Manchester).
Artists: Kevin Abosch (US), Siebren Versteeg (US), Dmitri Gutov (Russia), Dmitry Kawarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), the Where Dogs Run creative collective (Russia), Misha MOST (Russia), Kostya Novoselov (UK), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Daniel Rozin (US), Martha Fiennes (UK), Bjoern Schuelke (Germany), and Stain (Russia).
Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum), Victoria Kondrashova (RDI. Creative Company).
The exhibition will be open until 3 June 2018
A ticket to the State Hermitage Museum, purchased at the museum’s ticket offices, will grant automatic access to this exhibition.
26 May
10:30–17:30 
Church of the Saviour on Blood
A unique monument to Alexander II The Liberator, the Church of the Saviour on Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ) is a stand-out architectural landmark in the centre of St. Petersburg.
The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
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The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
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26 May
10:30–17:30 
St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is an outstanding monument to late Russian classicism from the mid-nineteenth century.
The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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26 May
11:00–16:30 
Museum of Applied Art, St. Petersburg Stieglitz School of Art and Design
The exhibition, which sprawls across 14 halls of the museum, boasts about 2,000 items. In the entrance hall, which opens the exhibition, visitors can enjoy temporary installations consisting of items from the museum’s collections. The small Italian galleries display unique examples of furniture from various historical periods. The Teremok Hall features examples of Russian applied art, including costumes, a collection of Russian folk dolls, printed textiles, forged metal items, and furniture. The collection of Western European ceramics and porcelain consists of a wide and diverse range of pieces: German stoneware from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Italian maiolica from the sixteenth century, unique porcelains from Berlin, Meissen, and Sèvres dating from the eighteenth century, and much more.
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Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the museum.
Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
26 May
11:00–17:00 
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
The museum presents the traditional cultures of peoples from around the world (Native Americans, Eskimos, Japanese, Indians, Mongols, etc.) as well as some of the first natural science collections, which date back to the time of Peter the Great. The Mikhail Lomonosov and the Eighteenth-Century Academy of Sciences exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the history of Russian science. There is also an option to enjoy guided tours of the First Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences and the Gottorp (Greater Academic) Globe exhibits. The museum is currently presenting the following temporary exhibit: Dervishes: Images and Words.
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26 May
11:00–22:00 
Come aboard the legendary icebreaker Krasin
This tour will take you on an amazing journey through the pages of the history of the Russian icebreaker fleet and Arctic exploration. The Krasin was built in 1917 in England by order of the Government of the Russian Empire. It went on to participate in Arctic rescue expeditions and came to the aid of civilian vessels. It circumnavigated the world twice, spent the entirety of World War II guiding polar convoys, heroically worked on the Northern Sea Route, and explored oil and gas fields on the Russian Arctic shelf. In 1928, the crew of the icebreaker was awarded the highest honour of the Soviet Union for rescuing the crew of Italian aeronauts led by the famous polar explorer, inventor, and general Umberto Nobile, who had become stranded when their airship, the Italia, crashed off the coast of Spitsbergen.
Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
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Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access. Participants in other categories can purchase admission at a reduced price on presentation of their badge.
26 May
11:00–14:00 
The 4th Retro Transport Parade
As a part of the celebrations of 315th anniversary of St. Petersburg.
Residents and visitors to St. Petersburg will have a chance to see historic buses, trolleybuses, trucks and cars proceed along Nevsky Prospect to be later displayed in Inzhenernaya Street.
Collectors and museums of transportation companies from St. Petersburg and other cities in Russia, Estonia, Finland, and Hungary will exhibit vehicles from their collections. Original Ikarus-55 bus produced at the legendary factory in 1970 will arrive to St. Petersburg from Budapest. An innovation of 1962, Setra S6 bus with partial glass roof is guaranteed to be the centre of attention. Li-AZ Magnolia Mobile TV-Station that broadcasted the Olympic Games of 1980 will be presented to the general public for the first time this year.
On the occasion of the 315th anniversary of the Northern Capital the event will be even more grandiose than usual. This year, the parade will be joined with Motostolitsa Festival and motorbikes will ride together with the public transportation convoy through the city centre.
Free admission
Residents and visitors to St. Petersburg will have a chance to see historic buses, trolleybuses, trucks and cars proceed along Nevsky Prospect to be later displayed in Inzhenernaya Street.
Collectors and museums of transportation companies from St. Petersburg and other cities in Russia, Estonia, Finland, and Hungary will exhibit vehicles from their collections. Original Ikarus-55 bus produced at the legendary factory in 1970 will arrive to St. Petersburg from Budapest. An innovation of 1962, Setra S6 bus with partial glass roof is guaranteed to be the centre of attention. Li-AZ Magnolia Mobile TV-Station that broadcasted the Olympic Games of 1980 will be presented to the general public for the first time this year.
On the occasion of the 315th anniversary of the Northern Capital the event will be even more grandiose than usual. This year, the parade will be joined with Motostolitsa Festival and motorbikes will ride together with the public transportation convoy through the city centre.
Free admission
26 May
11:00–14:00 
Motostolitsa International Festival
This event is held as part of the festivities marking the 315th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
For the second time, the international festival Motoweek will bring sporting figures, touring bikers, collectors of vintage vehicles, representatives from motorcycle clubs, and thousands of St. Petersburg residents and tourists who share a love of motorcycles, together at a single location. The festival, the main venues for which will be Manezhnaya Ploshchad, Malaya Sadovaya Ulitsa, Inzhenernaya Ulitsa, and Klenovaya Alleya, will feature a grand parade of vintage vehicles. The vehicles participating in the parade – ranging from classic cars and motorcycles to vintage trolleybuses and historic trams – will make the journey from all over Europe to Manezhnaya Ploshchad. A column of trolleybuses will join the parade on the leg from Ulitsa Nakhimova to Inzhenernaya Ulitsa, and a column of trams from Sredny Prospekt on Vasilievsky Island to Ploshchad Belinskogo. Motoweek is rightly becoming known as one of St. Petersburg’s greatest new traditions.
Entry is free.
For the second time, the international festival Motoweek will bring sporting figures, touring bikers, collectors of vintage vehicles, representatives from motorcycle clubs, and thousands of St. Petersburg residents and tourists who share a love of motorcycles, together at a single location. The festival, the main venues for which will be Manezhnaya Ploshchad, Malaya Sadovaya Ulitsa, Inzhenernaya Ulitsa, and Klenovaya Alleya, will feature a grand parade of vintage vehicles. The vehicles participating in the parade – ranging from classic cars and motorcycles to vintage trolleybuses and historic trams – will make the journey from all over Europe to Manezhnaya Ploshchad. A column of trolleybuses will join the parade on the leg from Ulitsa Nakhimova to Inzhenernaya Ulitsa, and a column of trams from Sredny Prospekt on Vasilievsky Island to Ploshchad Belinskogo. Motoweek is rightly becoming known as one of St. Petersburg’s greatest new traditions.
Entry is free.
26 May
12:00–18:00 
Space. Human Stories
The Space. Human Stories exhibition is dedicated to the figures who made an invaluable contribution to Russian space exploration and those who worked ‘behind the scenes’ of the USSR’s march to space. Visitors will learn about several stories from the creators of the Soviet space programme and will be able to view unique documents and artefacts related to the programme. Rare materials from private archives will be presented for the first time. Works by contemporary artists on the theme of space will be presented in a new dedicated space.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 badge to gain access to the exhibition.
26 May
12:00–20:00 
Caution: Children at Play! Exhibition Project
Over 110 artisans, including painters, drawing artists, sculptors, and video artist participate in this exhibition project. All of them belong to different generations representing different traditions: traditional classical art, underground art, primitivism and hyperrealism, as well as many other trends gaining ground in contemporary visual art. Among the participants, one can find both famous names and young authors: Nikolay Ionin (1890-1948), Nikolay Andronov (1929-98), Oleg Tselkov (born 1934), Ilya Kabakov (born 1933), Oskar Rabin (born 1928), Solomon Rossin (born 1937), Maxim Kantor (born 1957), Vladimir Dubosarsky (born 1964), Leonid Tskhe (born 1983) and many others. Every artist has their own journey, their own childhood and their own memories of it.
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Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
26 May
16:00–20:00 
A Twenty-First Century Library in the Historic Building of the Holy Governing Synod
The Presidential Library is one of the most important information, cultural, and educational centres in Russia. The tour will introduce visitors to the historical interiors of the Synod building and the modern halls of the Presidential Library, which were designed to host public and state events. The latter spaces include a conference hall and a multimedia, multipurpose hall, which are equipped with the latest technology, including 3D projection equipment. Part of the tour will feature a presentation of the library’s electronic collections in the Electronic Reading Room and on the Internet portal. These collections consist of materials on the history of Russia; the theory and practice of Russian statehood; and Russian language, literature, geography, and law. Visitors will have a chance to visit both temporary and permanent exhibits in the Constitution Hall, which houses the only inaugural copy of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.
Guided tours will be conducted twice a day:
– at 16:00 and 19:00 on 24 and 26 May
– at 16:00 and 17:30 on 25 May
Groups should assemble and participants should meet their guides in the main foyer of the Presidential Library.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 participant badge to join the tour.
Guided tours will be conducted twice a day:
– at 16:00 and 19:00 on 24 and 26 May
– at 16:00 and 17:30 on 25 May
Groups should assemble and participants should meet their guides in the main foyer of the Presidential Library.
Please present your SPIEF 2018 participant badge to join the tour.
26 May
18:00–19:30 
Concert performance by the Yesterday Club
This performance and class concert offered by People’s Artist of Russia Ivan Blagoder is dedicated to the popular music of the twentieth century. The Yesterday Club would like to welcome all lovers of jam sessions. It will lower the lights and transform the stage of the Academic Theatre into the relaxed atmosphere of a jazz club.
Be prepared for dancing, improvisation, and, of course, your favourite tunes from yesteryear that could once be heard drifting out of windows all over America. The programme includes music from the era of Ella Fitzgerald, the 1960s London of the Beetles, 1990s Hollywood, and more. The easy listening of nostalgic blues hits will alternate with lively mamba and Bésame Mucho. English- and Spanish-language songs will be performed in a new musical arrangement.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Be prepared for dancing, improvisation, and, of course, your favourite tunes from yesteryear that could once be heard drifting out of windows all over America. The programme includes music from the era of Ella Fitzgerald, the 1960s London of the Beetles, 1990s Hollywood, and more. The easy listening of nostalgic blues hits will alternate with lively mamba and Bésame Mucho. English- and Spanish-language songs will be performed in a new musical arrangement.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
18:45–21:50 
Faceless
This immersive show is total immersion theatre, in which you will be transformed from a mere observer into a participant. Faceless does not include any traditional stage scenes, and the audience is not passive. The action takes place simultaneously on four floors of an old mansion, and the members of the audience decide who to follow and where to go.
An important element of the show is a mask that hides the faces of the mansion’s guests. Whatever happens, you can be sure that the mask guarantees the characters a measure of safety, anonymity, and, possibly, the ability to act with impunity.
The script for the immersive show was inspired by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts.
Personal experiences form a special part of the show: they provide an opportunity for audience members to communicate with the characters one-on-one.
Visitors are admitted to the show in groups every 15 minutes between 18:45 and 20:00.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
An important element of the show is a mask that hides the faces of the mansion’s guests. Whatever happens, you can be sure that the mask guarantees the characters a measure of safety, anonymity, and, possibly, the ability to act with impunity.
The script for the immersive show was inspired by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts.
Personal experiences form a special part of the show: they provide an opportunity for audience members to communicate with the characters one-on-one.
Visitors are admitted to the show in groups every 15 minutes between 18:45 and 20:00.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
19:00–22:15 
Raymonda
The sweeping multi-act ballet Raymonda is one of the treasures of the Mariinsky Theatre repertoire. Choreographed by Marius Petipa in 1898, it successfully combines large classical ensembles, colourful character dances, spectacular genre scenes, and the use of pantomime. This late masterpiece by Petipa is a test of the professionalism and acting skills of any ballet company.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
19:00–23:00 
Event hosted by the Governor of St. Petersburg in celebration of the 22nd St. Petersburg International Economic Forum
This event will take place on Palace Square, in the very heart of St. Petersburg. Marquees will be set up outside the Winter Palace, including a luxury buffet area and a space for business meetings.
The Governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, will give a welcome address at 20:00.
In this, St. Petersburg’s 315th year, guests will be able to witness the unique musical show Classics at the Palace Square, a major city event. The concert will feature world opera stars, including the spectacular duo Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak, the magnificent soprano Valentina Naforniţa, and the crème de la crème of the Russian opera school.
On the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, yet another gift awaits guests: Palace Square will host the start of the Trophy Tour in St. Petersburg.
Please note that due to the live transmission of the gala concert, entry to the parterre will close at 21:00.
Premium and Standard Package participants can attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
The Governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, will give a welcome address at 20:00.
In this, St. Petersburg’s 315th year, guests will be able to witness the unique musical show Classics at the Palace Square, a major city event. The concert will feature world opera stars, including the spectacular duo Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak, the magnificent soprano Valentina Naforniţa, and the crème de la crème of the Russian opera school.
On the eve of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, yet another gift awaits guests: Palace Square will host the start of the Trophy Tour in St. Petersburg.
Please note that due to the live transmission of the gala concert, entry to the parterre will close at 21:00.
Premium and Standard Package participants can attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
26 May
19:00–21:00 
Queen Song
The unique musical project Queen Song brings divas of classical opera together on one stage. They will perform Russian folk songs and excerpts from the operas Eugene Onegin and The Tsar’s Bride.
The performance will feature:
Irina Mataeva, Anastasia Kalagina, Oxana Shilova, Yulia Matochkina, Dmitry Grigoriev, Olesya Petrova, Alexandra Kabanova, Alexey Tikhomirov, Sergey Starostin, Varvara Kotova, Sergei Klevensky, Dimitri Illarionov, Sergey Filatov, the TeremA Orchestra of Folk Instruments, and the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir led by Nikolai Kornev.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
The performance will feature:
Irina Mataeva, Anastasia Kalagina, Oxana Shilova, Yulia Matochkina, Dmitry Grigoriev, Olesya Petrova, Alexandra Kabanova, Alexey Tikhomirov, Sergey Starostin, Varvara Kotova, Sergei Klevensky, Dimitri Illarionov, Sergey Filatov, the TeremA Orchestra of Folk Instruments, and the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir led by Nikolai Kornev.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
19:00–21:35 
The Drunks
A production by Andrey Moguchy based on the play by Ivan Vyrypaev.
The Drunks is a philosophical comedy about coming to know the truth. It is a story about how we can all learn not to be afraid to live, love, forgive, and change ourselves and the world around us. The main theme of the play is love, and intoxication is a metaphor for enlightenment.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
The Drunks is a philosophical comedy about coming to know the truth. It is a story about how we can all learn not to be afraid to live, love, forgive, and change ourselves and the world around us. The main theme of the play is love, and intoxication is a metaphor for enlightenment.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
19:00–22:05 
Dance of the Vampires musical
The premiere of the Russian version of the Roman Polanski’s cult musical Dance of the Vampires took place in 2011. The production has not been removed from the Theatre of Musical Comedy’s repertoire for the sixth season now; it has become a huge hit with theatregoers, and amassed an army of fans running into the thousands.
According to the story, Professor Abronsius and his young assistant Alfred are trying, in vain, to save the population of a Transylvanian village from a vampire: the mysterious Count von Krolock and his huge retinue. The demonic charisma of the Count bewitches everyone around him.
The production has won prizes at the Golden Sofit and Golden Mask awards.
A ticket is required to attend this event; these can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of the tickets is not included in the package.
According to the story, Professor Abronsius and his young assistant Alfred are trying, in vain, to save the population of a Transylvanian village from a vampire: the mysterious Count von Krolock and his huge retinue. The demonic charisma of the Count bewitches everyone around him.
The production has won prizes at the Golden Sofit and Golden Mask awards.
A ticket is required to attend this event; these can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of the tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
19:00–22:00 
The First International Circus Art Festival Na Fontanke
On 24–27 May, Russia’s first permanent circus will host the First International Festival of Circus Art Na Fontanke. The famous arena of the oldest circus in the country will feature best circus performers from over 17 different countries. Edgar Zapashny will be the festival presenter. Contemporary and classic performances, competence and artistic skill of the participants will offer the residents and guests of St. Petersburg an unforgettable encounter with the magic art of circus.
Gala programme featuring best performances selected by the jury.
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
Gala programme featuring best performances selected by the jury.
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
26 May
19:30–22:15 
La Fille mal gardée
Music by Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold.
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, a classic British ballet dancer and choreographer.
Featuring Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
The story of the charming Lise, who dreams of reuniting with her lover while her mother intends to give her hand in marriage to a rich though halfwit neighbour, forms the basis of this remarkable ballet performance. Cheerful and sparkling, La Fille mal gardée conquers audiences with its charm.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton, a classic British ballet dancer and choreographer.
Featuring Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
The story of the charming Lise, who dreams of reuniting with her lover while her mother intends to give her hand in marriage to a rich though halfwit neighbour, forms the basis of this remarkable ballet performance. Cheerful and sparkling, La Fille mal gardée conquers audiences with its charm.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
20:00–22:00 
Chamber music for wind instruments
The renowned soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra will perform a programme featuring chamber works by Russian, French, and Czech composers. The concert programme will allow the audience to evaluate both the individual skill of the musicians and their mastery of the ensemble form. It sets up a dialogue between the works of Janáček and Rimsky-Korsakov, Roussel and Ravel. These composers were all contemporaries of each other, though they offered different musical interpretations of their time.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
20:00–22:45 
Swan Lake
One of the most beautiful ballet fairy tales in history, the classical ballet Swan Lake by Pyotr Tchaikovsky will be presented on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre by the St. Petersburg Tchaikovsky Ballet Theatre. The production will follow the choreography of Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, and Alexander Gorsky as interpreted by Mikhail Messerer. This masterpiece of choreography was created more than 140 years ago, and it is still considered to be an unrivalled achievement of Russian culture.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
26 May
23:30–00:30 
The 'Singing Bridges' Light and Music Show
This event is held as part of the festivities marking the 315th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
The performance of music adds a unique charm to the nightly tradition of the raising of the bridges, and it fully allows you to experience the spirit and atmosphere of St. Petersburg. A light show and music performance by a symphony orchestra will begin half an hour before midnight on Admiralteiskaya naberezhnaya. The musicians will perform popular and beloved tunes by St. Petersburg and Leningrad composers.
Venue: Admiralteiskaya naberezhnaya, Palace Bridge, the Neva River.
Free admission.
The performance of music adds a unique charm to the nightly tradition of the raising of the bridges, and it fully allows you to experience the spirit and atmosphere of St. Petersburg. A light show and music performance by a symphony orchestra will begin half an hour before midnight on Admiralteiskaya naberezhnaya. The musicians will perform popular and beloved tunes by St. Petersburg and Leningrad composers.
Venue: Admiralteiskaya naberezhnaya, Palace Bridge, the Neva River.
Free admission.
27 May
06:00–00:00 
Kirov Central Park of Culture and Recreation
The Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Sergei Kirov is the oldest park in St. Petersburg. Its architecture and layout are a masterpiece of the early 19th century landscape design, created by the famous architect Carlo Rossi. In its contemporary period, the Park combines beauty and sophistication of the previous centuries with possibilities of casual recreation for residents and guests of St. Petersburg. Every year the Park hosts the best open-air events of the summer. Tulip blossom season is a highlight of Yelagin Island. In 2018, the tulips are in blossom on 10–26 May.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
The Park has two entrances: from the Stary Teatr Square through the 1st Yelagin Bridge and from Primorsky Prospect through the 3rd Yelagin Bridge.
On weekdays, the admission to the park is free.
26–27 May: Premium Package Participants can enter the park upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participants.
27 May
09:00–22:00 
Catherine and Alexander Parks
The magnificent palace complex at Tsarskoye Selo would not be complete without its parks, the most important of which, Catherine and Alexander, are named after the palaces that grace their grounds.
Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
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Catherine Park is divided into two parts – the regular Old Garden and an English landscaped park. Symmetry lies at the heart of the design of the Old Garden, with the palace at its centre, and strictly mapped out avenues, squares, pavilions, and sculptures.
Alexander Park spans around 200 hectares and flanks the courtyard of Catherine Palace. It is also divided into a regular part (the New Garden) and a landscaped park.
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27 May
09:00–20:00 
Peterhof State Museum-Reserve
The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve is the capital of fountains. It attracts thousands of tourists every year. Forum guests will be able to enjoy the Lower Park, one of the most beautiful parks in Europe. It is graced by 150 completely different fountains: from colossal cascades, including the Grand Cascade that features the famous statue of Samson in the centre of the ensemble, to trick fountains, which delight children and adults alike.
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
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The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services (including admission to the Grand Peterhof Palace) separately.
27 May
10:00–18:00 
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s stature as a genius of the twentieth century is more clearly evident today than ever. His impact on the culture of his era places him in the company of such artistic figures as Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, and Wassily Kandinsky. This exhibition in the halls of the Benois Wing displays the artist’s works in stages, celebrating all periods of his creative life through both known and forgotten pieces drawn from the collections of numerous museums and private collections. Among the works featured are such masterpieces as Bathing of the Red Horse, The Mother of God, Softener of Evil Hearts, Petrograd Madonna, Death of a Commissar, Alarm, and others.
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27 May
10:00–18:00 
Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
Diverse in materials and themes but with a single cultural and historical focus, this exhibition tells the story of significant events in Russian history using over 400 exhibits from the visual and applied arts. It features paintings and graphic works, sculpture, porcelain, glassware, works of applied art, costumes, and archival documents.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
27 May
10:00–18:00 
Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
Drawn from the collections of the Russian State Museum, the State Hermitage, and private owners, the approximately 350 examples of domestic ceramics dating from the 1920s to the beginning of the 1990s in this exhibition trace the new artistic approaches and motifs applied by artists over various periods of national history, and explore how the portrayal of sports and a healthy lifestyle in the visual arts has changed.
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27 May
10:00–18:00 
Pavlovsk State Museum
Pavlovsk Palace and Park constitutes a monument to the architecture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The prominent architects, decorators, and painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who contributed to its creation include Charles Cameron, Vincenzo Brenna, Andrey Voronikhin, Giacomo Quarenghi, Carlo Rossi, Pietro Gonzaga, and others.
Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
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Pavlovsk Palace served as the residence of emperors and grand dukes. The names of Paul I and Maria Feodorovna, and the Grand Dukes Mikhail Pavlovich and Konstantin Konstantinovich are associated with this residence. Today, Pavlovsk Palace is a museum with a collection of more than 57,000 items. It includes collections of Russian and Western European arts and crafts, paintings, and drawings, as well as a collection of antique sculptures.
The halls of the palace house a number of expositions devoted to various topics: The Costume Museum, A Woman’s World and Her Hobbies, Church Vestments and Church Plate from the Collections of the Pavlovsk State Museum, and The Russian Residential Interior of the Nineteenth Century.
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27 May
10:00–17:00 
Russia in the Great War Museum
This is the first museum in modern Russia dedicated to the tragic World War I period (1914–1917). It is located in the Sovereign’s Martial Chamber, conceived by Emperor Nicholas II as a pantheon of military glory.
The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
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The exhibition mainly consists of genuine military and household items belonging to those who took part in the First World War, as well as documentary and photographic materials from the Tsarskoye Selo Museum Reserve collection.
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27 May
10:00–17:00 
Tsarskoye Selo 1917: On the eve ...
This exhibition describes the life of the Tsarskoye Selo residence from February to October 1917, the period between the two revolutions. This was a time when one era (the monarchy) was drawing to a close and a new era, full of revolutionary upheavals, was dawning. At that time, the residence at Tsarskoye Selo still existed but it had already lost its imperial status. The last Russian emperor and his family were still living in the Alexander Palace, but he was now citizen Romanov, held under house arrest by the Provisional Government. Starting in spring 1917, an Artistic and Historical Commission was set up at the Imperial Palace of Tsarskoye Selo to inventory the newly nationalized property and create a museum in the former residence.
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27 May
10:00–17:00 
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection
The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection exhibition, curated in conjunction with the State Hermitage Museum, first opened in 2016. The exhibited items include a collection of Eastern bladed weapons, firearms from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and European arms and equipment from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including armour, helmets, halberds, swords, and horse harnesses. The State Hermitage contributed some rare items from its collection for temporary display, including some sixteenth-century armour from Nicholas I’s collection.
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27 May
10:00–22:00 
2018 Sand Sculpture Festival
An annual sand sculpture festival is held outside on the beach at the Peter and Paul Fortress, amazing visitors year after year with its grand scale and superb craftsmanship.
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Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the festival.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
27 May
10:00–18:00 
Art Nouveau of St. Petersburg
This exhibition is devoted to one of the most interesting periods in the cultural history of St. Petersburg: the turn of the twentieth century, which is often called the Art Nouveau period.
A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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A whole layer of St. Petersburg fin de siècle city culture was associated with the Art Nouveau style, and this large-scale exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress, which presents a very rich collection of works in the Art Nouveau style, offers a reminder of that era.
It features architectural drawings, decorative and architectural details of St. Petersburg buildings, furniture, lighting fixtures, porcelain and glassware, women’s clothing, shoes, and accessories.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
27 May
10:30–17:30 
St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum
St. Isaac’s Cathedral is an outstanding monument to late Russian classicism from the mid-nineteenth century.
The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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The remarkable interior of the cathedral features all kinds of monumental and decorative art, including painting, sculpture, mosaics, and coloured facing stones. The cathedral’s main iconostasis is decorated with malachite and lapis lazuli columns. The main altar features a stained-glass window of the ‘Risen Christ’, which is an unconventional decoration for an Orthodox church.
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27 May
10:30–17:30 
Church of the Saviour on Blood
A unique monument to Alexander II The Liberator, the Church of the Saviour on Blood (Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ) is a stand-out architectural landmark in the centre of St. Petersburg.
The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
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The cathedral features Russia’s largest collection of mosaics, slabs of varicoloured Italian marble, ornamental stones from the Urals and the Altai, and a collection of Russian heraldic mosaics.
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27 May
10:30–18:00 
Innovation as a Method
Artists working with innovative artistic language will present works in which the interrelation of artistic thought, new physical materials, and technological processes is examined. Among the themes addressed by participants in the exhibition are artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and blockchain.
Some of the works have been created in cooperation with a number of scientific laboratories. These include joint projects between: Dmitri Gutov and the Russian Quantum Centre (Moscow), Pavel Pepperstein and the ChemRar High-Tech Centre (Moscow), and Kostya Novoselov and the National Graphene Institute (Manchester).
Artists: Kevin Abosch (US), Siebren Versteeg (US), Dmitri Gutov (Russia), Dmitry Kawarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), the Where Dogs Run creative collective (Russia), Misha MOST (Russia), Kostya Novoselov (UK), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Daniel Rozin (US), Martha Fiennes (UK), Bjoern Schuelke (Germany), and Stain (Russia).
Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum), Victoria Kondrashova (RDI. Creative Company).
The exhibition will be open until 3 June 2018
A ticket to the State Hermitage Museum, purchased at the museum’s ticket offices, will grant automatic access to this exhibition.
Some of the works have been created in cooperation with a number of scientific laboratories. These include joint projects between: Dmitri Gutov and the Russian Quantum Centre (Moscow), Pavel Pepperstein and the ChemRar High-Tech Centre (Moscow), and Kostya Novoselov and the National Graphene Institute (Manchester).
Artists: Kevin Abosch (US), Siebren Versteeg (US), Dmitri Gutov (Russia), Dmitry Kawarga (Russia), Egor Kraft (Russia), the Where Dogs Run creative collective (Russia), Misha MOST (Russia), Kostya Novoselov (UK), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Daniel Rozin (US), Martha Fiennes (UK), Bjoern Schuelke (Germany), and Stain (Russia).
Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage Museum), Victoria Kondrashova (RDI. Creative Company).
The exhibition will be open until 3 June 2018
A ticket to the State Hermitage Museum, purchased at the museum’s ticket offices, will grant automatic access to this exhibition.
27 May
11:00–17:00 
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
The museum presents the traditional cultures of peoples from around the world (Native Americans, Eskimos, Japanese, Indians, Mongols, etc.) as well as some of the first natural science collections, which date back to the time of Peter the Great. The Mikhail Lomonosov and the Eighteenth-Century Academy of Sciences exhibit offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the history of Russian science. There is also an option to enjoy guided tours of the First Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences and the Gottorp (Greater Academic) Globe exhibits. The museum is currently presenting the following temporary exhibit: Dervishes: Images and Words.
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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
27 May
12:00–20:00 
Caution: Children at Play! Exhibition Project
Over 110 artisans, including painters, drawing artists, sculptors, and video artist participate in this exhibition project. All of them belong to different generations representing different traditions: traditional classical art, underground art, primitivism and hyperrealism, as well as many other trends gaining ground in contemporary visual art. Among the participants, one can find both famous names and young authors: Nikolay Ionin (1890-1948), Nikolay Andronov (1929-98), Oleg Tselkov (born 1934), Ilya Kabakov (born 1933), Oskar Rabin (born 1928), Solomon Rossin (born 1937), Maxim Kantor (born 1957), Vladimir Dubosarsky (born 1964), Leonid Tskhe (born 1983) and many others. Every artist has their own journey, their own childhood and their own memories of it.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
27 May
12:00–18:00 
Lilac Promenade
The Lilac Promenade provides a great opportunity for visitors to admire the blossoming lilacs; walk along the special lilac-lined trails of Pavlovsk Park; immerse themselves in the historical atmosphere of the park’s pavilions, which were created by talented architects and the park’s royal owners; visit exhibitions by St. Petersburg artists; and attend creative master classes and classical music concerts.
The celebration will take place throughout Pavlovsk Park, including the area around the palace; along the banks of the Slavyanka River; White Birch; and the Aviary, Temple of Friendship, and Pink Pavilion.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
The celebration will take place throughout Pavlovsk Park, including the area around the palace; along the banks of the Slavyanka River; White Birch; and the Aviary, Temple of Friendship, and Pink Pavilion.
Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access.
Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
27 May
12:00–14:00 
Carnival procession of the First International Festival of Circus Art in St. Petersburg
This event is held as part of the festivities marking the 315th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
This major festival celebrating the circus arts will take place in St. Petersburg from 24 to 27 May. Demonstrating their incredible skills will be circus performers from 20 countries, including Russia, China, North Korea, Germany, Italy, Norway, Kenya, Kazakhstan, and other corners of the world. The carnival procession through the city centre on 27 May will feature renowned circus artists as well as trained animals, including famous circus elephants.
Route: Nab. Reki Fontanki – Nevsky Prospekt – Sadovaya Ulitsa – Inzhenernaya Ulitsa – 3A, Nab. Reki Fontanki.
Entry is free.
This major festival celebrating the circus arts will take place in St. Petersburg from 24 to 27 May. Demonstrating their incredible skills will be circus performers from 20 countries, including Russia, China, North Korea, Germany, Italy, Norway, Kenya, Kazakhstan, and other corners of the world. The carnival procession through the city centre on 27 May will feature renowned circus artists as well as trained animals, including famous circus elephants.
Route: Nab. Reki Fontanki – Nevsky Prospekt – Sadovaya Ulitsa – Inzhenernaya Ulitsa – 3A, Nab. Reki Fontanki.
Entry is free.
27 May
12:30–14:00 
Festive parade of brass bands and drummers
This event is held as part of the festivities marking the 315th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
The main road of the northern capital will be filled with the notes of a true musical celebration. Residents and guests of the city will be invited to join the parade of bands. At the end of the parade, participants and spectators will join together in a festive flash mob and form the letters of the hashtag #315SPb.
Parade route: Ploshchad Ostrovskogo – Nevsky Prospekt.
Free admission.
The main road of the northern capital will be filled with the notes of a true musical celebration. Residents and guests of the city will be invited to join the parade of bands. At the end of the parade, participants and spectators will join together in a festive flash mob and form the letters of the hashtag #315SPb.
Parade route: Ploshchad Ostrovskogo – Nevsky Prospekt.
Free admission.
27 May
17:00–20:00 
The First International Circus Art Festival Na Fontanke
On 24–27 May, Russia’s first permanent circus will host the First International Festival of Circus Art Na Fontanke. The famous arena of the oldest circus in the country will feature best circus performers from over 17 different countries. Edgar Zapashny will be the festival presenter. Contemporary and classic performances, competence and artistic skill of the participants will offer the residents and guests of St. Petersburg an unforgettable encounter with the magic art of circus.
Gala programme featuring best performances selected by the jury.
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
Gala programme featuring best performances selected by the jury.
Tickets for the event can be ordered through the Personal web office.
The ticket cost is covered by the participant.
27 May
18:00–19:30 
Concert performance by the Yesterday Club
This performance and class concert offered by People’s Artist of Russia Ivan Blagoder is dedicated to the popular music of the twentieth century. The Yesterday Club would like to welcome all lovers of jam sessions. It will lower the lights and transform the stage of the Academic Theatre into the relaxed atmosphere of a jazz club.
Be prepared for dancing, improvisation, and, of course, your favourite tunes from yesteryear that could once be heard drifting out of windows all over America. The programme includes music from the era of Ella Fitzgerald, the 1960s London of the Beetles, 1990s Hollywood, and more. The easy listening of nostalgic blues hits will alternate with lively mamba and Bésame Mucho. English- and Spanish-language songs will be performed in a new musical arrangement.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Be prepared for dancing, improvisation, and, of course, your favourite tunes from yesteryear that could once be heard drifting out of windows all over America. The programme includes music from the era of Ella Fitzgerald, the 1960s London of the Beetles, 1990s Hollywood, and more. The easy listening of nostalgic blues hits will alternate with lively mamba and Bésame Mucho. English- and Spanish-language songs will be performed in a new musical arrangement.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
27 May
19:00–20:10 
Oedipus at Colonus
Based on the tragedy of the same name by Sophocles.
Premiere.
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
The story centres on the struggle between the King of Athens, Theseus, Oedipus’ son Polynices, and Oedipus’ confidant Creon to influence the protagonist and his daughter Antigone. Julia Vysotskaya and Nikolai Gorshkov star in the roles of Antigone and Oedipus, respectively.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
Premiere.
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
The story centres on the struggle between the King of Athens, Theseus, Oedipus’ son Polynices, and Oedipus’ confidant Creon to influence the protagonist and his daughter Antigone. Julia Vysotskaya and Nikolai Gorshkov star in the roles of Antigone and Oedipus, respectively.
A ticket is required to attend this event; tickets can be purchased via your personal web office.
The price of these tickets is not included in the package.
27 May
23:00–23:15 
Festive Fireworks over the Neva River
Festive fireworks over the Neva River
This event is held as part of the festivities marking the 315th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
To close out the celebrations on City Day, the sky over the historical centre of St. Petersburg will be lit up with colourful fireworks. As is traditional, the fireworks will be launched from the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Thus, the embankments, bridges across the Neva, and the spit of Vasilievsky Island will, for a few minutes, become the best spots for viewing the pyrotechnic show.
Venue: Neva River.
Free admission.
This event is held as part of the festivities marking the 315th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
To close out the celebrations on City Day, the sky over the historical centre of St. Petersburg will be lit up with colourful fireworks. As is traditional, the fireworks will be launched from the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Thus, the embankments, bridges across the Neva, and the spit of Vasilievsky Island will, for a few minutes, become the best spots for viewing the pyrotechnic show.
Venue: Neva River.
Free admission.
