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• This Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Online Opera Performances

  Being a good egg and staying at home to protect yourself and others during the pandemic? Here’s your reward: now and on this weekend, tune in to watch first-class performances by the world’s best opera houses from the comfort of your couch! Here’s a short overview of what’s on offer.

  25.03.2020

• Unexplored St. Petersburg: Yusupov Palace

  There are few places in St. Petersburg that illustrate the extravagance of Russian nobility better than the Yusupov Palace. Once home to one of the Russian Empire's richest noble families, it's a statement in history and decorum – as well as the site of enigmatic Grigori Rasputin's grisly assassination.

  13.03.2020

• Alexia Vanmalder: I Love Being in Russia. This Culture Is So Different From What I’m Used To

  Hailing from Charleroi, Belgium, Alexia Vanmalder is currently an intern at ITMO’s Foreign Language Training Center, where she mostly translates articles for ITMO News and observes English and Russian language classes to offer feedback to the teachers. She also takes part in student activities like the speaking club and writes articles for ITMO’s blog. 

  12.03.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 14-15, 2020

  As the weekend rolls in, plan your chillaxing with our regular program of the Sat-Sun comings and goings in St. Pete!

  11.03.2020

• ITMO’s Intelligentsia Culture Club: Be Kinder to Others and Never Fear Change

  We all know that St. Petersburg is a city where culture in all its diverse shapes and forms can be found in abundance – what with all the libraries, theaters and museums that surround you literally every time you go out for a walk. Sometimes it feels like the magic of its theaters, museums and libraries can only be discovered by the trusted few. Well, those at Intelligentsia, ITMO’s culture club, happen to know just how to break this uncanny spell. 

  10.03.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 7-8

  A lot of jazz, a contemporary art exhibition, and a classical music concert – lots of ways to start this spring on a jolly note (if you pardon the pun) in this guide to weekend events in St. Petersburg! 

  04.03.2020

• Explore Saint Petersburg Like a Local: Moskovsky Prospect

  Like any major city, St. Petersburg has official districts as well as “vernacular” areas that are special to the locals. There’s the Center, Vasilievsky Island, and Petrogradka, just to name a few. In this series of stories, we’ll highlight some of our favorites so you, too, can experience the city like a local. We start with Moskovsky Prospect, the main way to get downtown from the airport, and also a block-by-block trip through time and culture. 

  03.03.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 29 – March 1, 2020

  This weekend in St. Pete, celebrate Maslenitsa, stock up on homemade goods, and indulge in some opera – a fun program awaits!

  26.02.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 15-16, 2020

  Free tours of St. Pete’s art-nouveau hub, mad tea party revisited, Russian postwar history in photographs, and pugs – here’s what’s hanging on this weekend in St. Petersburg!

  12.02.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: February 8-9, 2020

  Unwind in style with this culture-heavy program of weekend events in St. Petersburg! Featuring: a socially aware art exhibition, a celebration of the works by Hans Zimmer, a Bob Marley festival, and some cinema suggestions.

  05.02.2020