
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.

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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The Grand Cascade is officially switched on at 11:00 every day.
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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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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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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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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 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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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.

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 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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Visits as part of a sightseeing tour must be reserved in advance. Detailed information is available in your personal web office.

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Guided tours start on the hour as groups are formed. The last tour leaves at 21:00.
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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

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.

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Premium and Standard Package Participants can enter the exhibition upon presenting the badge.
Tours and other additional services are covered by the participant.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.