Thursday, April 24
Music of Spain
- 7 pm
- St. Petersburg Philharmonia
- 700-2,000 rubles – tickets here
Experience an immersive tour of Spain while enjoying a two-hour live music concert featuring the works of the sunny country’s finest composers, as performed by a chamber orchestra at St. Petersburg Philharmonia.
Friday, April 25
Spirit Blows
- 8 pm
- Community Center (New Holland Island)
- 700 rubles – tickets here
Another day, another concert… This Friday, Consort Gamajun invites you to explore and experience the power of the human spirit through music – namely, wind and percussion compositions of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Saturday, April 26
Start of the fountain season in Peterhof
- 9 am - 8 pm
- Nizhny Park, Peterhof
- 1,500 rubles – tickets here
The fountains are coming back to life at Peterhof – it’s a sure sign that spring is finally here! This Saturday, the park’s mesmerizing fountain ecosystem – about 150 fountains and water installations – will be launched for the first time and mark the start of the new summer season in Peterhof. As per tradition, the annual fountain show will take place later, on May 17.
Sunday, April 27
English Speaking Club: Zero Conditional & Stating Facts
- 2-4 pm
- Community Center (New Holland Island)
- 250 rubles – register here
This Sunday, the English Speaking Club at New Holland's Community Center is having another meeting for everyone who wants to boost their English skills and indulge in a variety of topics. The coming discussions will be all about how to formulate facts in the language and use the zero conditional correctly. The recommended level of proficiency is B1 and higher.
Monday, April 28
Kandinsky on tour
- Until September 21, 11 am - 6 pm (Mon, Thu, Sun), 11 am - 8 pm (Tue, Fri, Sat)
- General Staff Building (Hermitage)
- 500 rubles (free for students) – tickets here
There’s way more to see of Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer of Russian abstract art, at the General Staff Building. Apart from its permanent collection, the museum now exhibits another of his much-loved Compositions – Composition No. 217. Grey Oval – from the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is a follow-up to a series of exhibitions aiming to spotlight artworks from different Russian museums that influenced the history of Russian and world art.
Tuesday, April 29
Cherry blossom season at Botanical Garden
- 10 am – 4:40 pm
- St. Petersburg Botanical Garden
- 300 rubles – tickets here
There’s a multitude of opportunities to experience the cherry blossom season in St. Pete, one of the hotspots being the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden. There, you can experience nature in all its diversity, as well as enjoy the many sakuras and cherry blossoms, which are already blooming or just about to bloom.
Wednesday, April 30
Victory Day Memories
For the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the ROSPHOTO Exhibition Hall is presenting a series of photographs taken by professional and amateur photographers from 1945 to the mid-1990s. The display includes a moving collection of 150 pictures that document the last months of the war and the first weeks of peace, Victory Day celebrations, post-war life, and courageous feats of war heroes and heroines.
