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• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 27-28

  See not one but two modern-day music legends in live concerts, rummage through vintage knick-knacks, peruse the intricacies of urban sculpture, and cacti it up at the Botanical Garden: it’s time to plan your weekend in St. Petersburg!

  24.04.2019

• The Magic of Russian May Holidays

  If you’ve never been to Russia (hint hint you really should come, summer is coming and we promise you won’t freeze to death, and bears have all abandoned their balalaikas and gone on vacation to the North Pole), you may not know that we love the beginning of May as dearly as we love that reposeful week after New Year’s. Why? Because ‘tis the sweet, sweet time of prolonged public holidays, often with the added plus of good weather. Here are our reflections on this wonderful time of the year.

  23.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 20-21

  Enjoy the extraordinary sound of a carillon in the very heart of St. Petersburg, admire the wildlife of China and ride a vintage steam train! Here is our list of the coolest things going on in the city this weekend.

  17.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 13-14

  Musical concerts and art exhibits rain (sic, like me and the majority of people on St. Pete’s metro, thanks weather) supreme in this weekend’s events forecast, with short bouts of sunlit Italian cinema and one space expo brought by the winds of the impending Cosmonautics Day. You could also expand your cultural horizons and go to Pskov, as an example. Or watch a movie. Or luxuriate in the joys of spring, provided it stops snowing. The weekend is basically your oyster. 

  10.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 6-7

  Admire the beauty of plant life, learn to paint flowers in watercolors, familiarize yourself with the nature of the Arctic, catch the latest photography exhibition, and purchase a unique handmade souvenir at a local fair – here’s our weekly list of the best things going on in the city this weekend.

  03.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 30-31

  Art exhibitions, eco events, clowns and a jazz night: celebrate the end of March in style with our guide to weekend events in St. Petersburg!

  27.03.2019

• 10 Things to Do at St. Petersburg’s Botanical Garden

  Being a newly-minted plant lover, I never miss a chance to visit the true mecca for nature enthusiasts of all sorts that is the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden. After my latest retreat to this tropical paradise away from March’s mud and gloom, I decided to share how excited I feel about this place with a friend of mine. “How often do you go there? Every month? What on earth can you do there every month?” was her reaction. Many things, actually.

  22.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 23-24

  Catch the exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s works, listen to classical music at St. Isaac’s Cathedral, and go to space at the Virtual Reality World show! Here is our weekly list of the best events taking place in St. Pete this weekend.

  20.03.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 16-17

  How is it the middle of March already? With all of that fast-forward, you’ll be eighty before you know it. Let’s stop that cruel tide of time by having a great (art-heavy, and art is atemporal, you know?) weekend in St. Petersburg, with this compilation of events by ITMO.NEWS!

  13.03.2019

• St. Petersburg’s Architectural Gems: Art Nouveau

  At the turn of the 20th century, the Art Nouveau style emerged in Europe, characterized by delicate, elaborate ornamentation, balanced asymmetry, and extensive use of floral motifs and sinuous curving lines. In St. Petersburg, this architectural nouvelle vague was aided by the National Romantic movement that flourished in other Scandinavian countries, giving rise to quirky yet stunning buildings that went on to become the city’s best-known landmarks.

  12.03.2019