25 May
06:00–00:00 
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.
Kirov Central Park of Culture and Recreation
4B, Yelagin Ostrov
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.
25 May
09:00–22:00 
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 and Alexander Parks
7, Ulitsa Sadovaya, Pushkin
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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25 May
09:00–20:00 
The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
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Peterhof State Museum-Reserve
2, Ulitsa Razvodnaya, Peterhof
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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25 May
10:00–20:15 
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The Fabergé Museum
The Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace), 21, Fontanka River Embankment
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.
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25 May
10:00–18:00 
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
Benois Wing, Russian Museum, 2, Nab. Kanala Griboyedova
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.
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25 May
10:00–18:00 
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Catherine the Great in Russia and Beyond
St. Michael’s (Mikhailovsky) Castle, 2, Sadovaya Ulitsa
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.
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25 May
10:00–18:00 
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Sport in Soviet Porcelain, Graphic Arts, and Sculpture
Benois Wing, Russian Museum, 2, Nab. Kanala Griboyedova
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.
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25 May
10:00–18:00 
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 State Museum
20, Ulitsa Sadovaya, Pavlovsk
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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25 May
10:00–17:00 
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Tsarskoye Selo 1917: On the eve ...
Cameron Gallery, Catherine Park, Pushkin
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.Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
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25 May
10:00–17:00 
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The Arsenal of Tsarskoye Selo: The Imperial Arms Collection
Arsenal Building, Alexander Park, Pushkin
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.Premium Package participants can present their badge to gain access to the exhibition.
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25 May
10:00–17:00 
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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Russia in the Great War Museum
5A, Fermskaya doroga, Pushkin
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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25 May
10:00–22:00 
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2018 Sand Sculpture Festival
Beach, Peter and Paul Fortress
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.
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25 May
10:00–18:00 
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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Art Nouveau of St. Petersburg
Engineering House, Peter and Paul Fortress
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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25 May
10:00–19:00 
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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State Museum of Political History of Russia
2–4, Ulitsa Kuibysheva
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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Please note that participants must pay for guided tours and other additional services separately.
25 May
10:30–17:30 
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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Church of the Saviour on Blood
2b, Nab. Kanala Griboedova
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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25 May
10:30–17:30 
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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St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum
4, Isaakievskaya Ploshchad
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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25 May
10:30–21:00 
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.
Innovation as a Method
The Small Hermitage, 2, Dvortsovaya Ploshchad
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.
25 May
11:00–22:00 
Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
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Come aboard the legendary icebreaker Krasin
Nab. Leytenanta Shmidta, 23-ya Liniya, Vasilievsky Ostrov
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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25 May
11:00–16:30 
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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.
Museum of Applied Art, St. Petersburg Stieglitz School of Art and Design
15, Solyanoy Pereulok
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.
25 May
11:00–17:00 
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Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera)
3, Universitetskaya Nab.
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.
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25 May
11:00–20:00 
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Space. Human Stories
KGallery, 24, Nab. Reki Fontanki
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.
25 May
14:00–20:00 
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Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.
Caution: Children at Play! Exhibition Project
The Museum St. Petersburg Art (20th and 21st century) (103 Griboyedov Canal Emb.)
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.
25 May
16:00–20:00 
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Manuscript Treasures of the East on the Banks of the Neva
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 18, Dvortsovaya Nab.
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.
25 May
16:00–18:30 
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.
A Twenty-First Century Library in the Historic Building of the Holy Governing Synod
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 3, Senatskaya Ploshchad
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.
25 May
18:45–21:50 
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.
Faceless
20, Dvortsovaya Nab.
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.
25 May
19:00–20:30 
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.
Charity gala concert: The Music of Love. A Tribute to St. Petersburg
Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, 3, Senatskaya Ploshchad
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.
25 May
19:00–21:00 
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.
Concert by the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden with Denis Matsuev (piano)
Mariinsky II, 34, Ulitsa Dekabristov
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.
25 May
19:00–20:30 
Premium Package participants may attend the event by invitation. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.
Concert by the Chorus Teatro Regio Torino (Turin, Italy)
Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, 20, Ulitsa Pisareva (entrance from 37, Ulitsa Dekabristov)
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.
25 May
19:00–21:15 
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 Storm
Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre Main Stage, 65, Nab. Reki Fontanki
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.
25 May
19:00–21:00 
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.
Flor de lino
St. Petersburg State Capella Choir, 20, Nab. Reki Moiki
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.
25 May
19:00–23:00 
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.
Concert by the group Neschastny Sluchai and multimedia light show
St. Anna Lutheran Cathedral, 8, Kirochnaya Ulitsa
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.
25 May
19:00–20:30 
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.
Gala performance to mark the 200th anniversary of Marius Petipa’s birth
Mariinsky Theatre, 1, Teatralnaya Ploshchad
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.
25 May
19:00–22:00 
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 First International Circus Art Festival Na Fontanke
The Bolshoi Saint-Petersburg State Circus (3 Fontanka emb.)
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.
25 May
19:30–22:15 
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.
La Fille mal gardée
Mikhailovsky Theatre, 1, Ploshchad Iskusstv
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.
25 May
20:00–22:00 
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.
Sixth concert of the first season: Yuri Temirkanov and his Orchestra
D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, 2, Mikhailovskaya Ulitsa
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.
