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FESTIVALS

The III Festival Maslenitsa.

The Mariinsky Theatre will be hosting The III Festival Maslenitsa (Shrove-tide) from 12 –18 February 2007.The festival programme will be composed of works by Igor Stravinsky and it marks the opening of a specialStravinsky season which will be continued during the Stars of the White Nights festival.

The VII International Ballet Festival MARIINSKY

12 April 2007 - 22 April 2007

Festival "Ice Palace of Russian Empress".

Metro station "Staraya Derevnya" (DEC. 23 - MARCH 18.

EXHIBITIONS

NORWECOM
XIV International specialized exhibition. Communication and telecommunication systems. (FEBRUARY 13 - 17)
Exhibition Center LENEXPO at Gavan.

WORLD OF GEMSTONE
Jewelry and mineralogy exhibition and fair FEBRUARY 15 - 18.
Militia House of Culture.

DOG EXHIBITION
Regional exhibition on dogs of all breeds (FEBRUARY 17 - 18)
Center for Exhibitions and Culture EurAsia.

PLANET CHILDHOOD
Exhibition on educational programs, goods and services for children (FEB. 28 - MARCH 4).
Exhibition Center LENEXPO at Gavan.

SPRING FLORAXVI Specialized exhibition and fair. Goods and services for gardeners. Indoor plants. Flower design (FEB. 28 - MARCH 6).
Center for Exhibitions and Culture EurAsia.

SPORTS

Skiing. Toksovo International Ski Marathon .

Village TOKSOVO (FEBRUARY 17).

Freestyle. World Championship for Juniors.

A Stage of European Cup (FEBRUARY 26 - 28)
Holiday Resort Krasnoe Ozero, Village KOROBITSYNO.

MUSEUMS

Alexander Blok Apartment Museum 57 Ul. Dekabristov, M. Sadovaya, Sennaya. Tel. 713-8631. Daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Tuesday.Culture And Civilization: The Italian Journey of Alexander Blok in 1909 Lithography, reproductions. Closing date to be confirmed

Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fontanka House. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Monday and the last Wednesday of every month.www.akhmatova.spb.ruPermanent Collection Exhibits about the life and work of Anna Akhmatova.Christmas in the Mumi-House Children’s drawings, decorative art. Dec. 15 through Feb. 11
NEW! The Portrait: Vyacheslav Mikhailov. Painting. Feb. 3 through Feb. 22

Botanical Museum 2 Ul. Professora Popova. Tel. 234-0673. Daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ticket office to 4 p.m. Closed Friday, Monday.
NEW! Unknown Russia in Old Photography Photographs from the beginning of 20th century. Dec. 25 through Feb. 15

Museum of City Sculpture: New Exhibition Hall 179/2a Nevsky Prospekt. Entrance through Chernoretskogo Pereulok. Tel. 274-2635, 274- 2579, 274-3860. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Thursday, Friday.
NEW! From Masquerade To Parade Artist’s Union Art–Ego presents paintings, quilts, dolls and costumes. Feb. 9 through March 4

Museum of the History of St. Petersburg Peter & Paul Fortress. M. Gorkovskaya. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday. www.spbkrepost.ruPermanent CollectionThe St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, housing the graves of most of the Romanov dynasty; History of the Mint; Museum of Old Petersburg; and more.Exhibits are housed in various locations in the Peter and Paul Fortress.

Museum of the Political History of Russia 2/4 Ul. Kuibysheva, M. Gorkovskaya. Tel. 233-7052. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Thursday.
NEW! The Prologue to St. Petersburg’s Avant-Garde: Mikhail Matyushin and Yelena Guro. From the museum’s collection. Dec. 20 through April 30

State Russian Museum Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. www.rusmuseum.ru/engPermanent Collection The world’s finest and most extensive collection of works by Russian artists, from 12th-century icons to some of the latest movements in contemporary art exhibited in the Mikhailovsky Palace and in associated buildings listed below.Four Seasons: Russian Landscapes of 19th-20th Centuries Some of the best work of giants such as Shishkin, Levitan, Savrasov and Aivazovsky Dec. 21 through March
NEW! Art is a Burden on One’s Shoulders Works by Felix Volosenkov, Anatoly Dmitrenko, Dmitry Yegorshin, Valery Lukka, Alexei Schtern celebrate 12 years of the Academy of the Contemporary Art. Feb. 8 through March 12

State Russian Museum:Marble Palace Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.
NEW! THAW: 15 Years of The Marat Gelman Gallery Work by Vitaly Komar, Oleg Kulik, Alexander Melamid, the Blue Noses, AES+F and others on show in this gift from the Gelman gallery to the Russian Museum. From Jan. 25

State Russian Museum: Mikhailovsky (Engineers’) Castle 2 Sadovaya. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 313-4112. Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Tuesday. A branch of the State Russian Museum.
NEW! Herbarium Amoris Dedicated to Karl Linney’s birthday. Painting, graphics.From Dec. 15

State Hermitage Museum Daily, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, 10:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday.
NEW! Alexander The Great About 500 paintings, and examples of decorative art from the 4th Century BC to the 19th Century celebrating Alexander the Great, known in Russian as Alexander Makedonsky (Alexander of Macedonia). Feb. 13 through May 1

State Hermitage Museum Educational Center 45 Naberezhnaya Reki Moiki. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 710-9531. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Thursday 12 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 10.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. A branch of the State Hermitage Museum.
NEW! Lenproject: Pyotr Bely Installation. Feb. 9 through Feb. 18

Pushkin Apartment Museum12 Naberezhnaya Reki Moiki. M. Nevsky Prospekt. Tel. 571-3801. Daily, 10.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Closed Tuesday and last Friday of each month. www.peterlink.ru/spb/pushkin
NEW! The Fire Has Gone Out at The Alter An exhibit marking 170 years since the death of Alexander Pushkin, Russia’s national poet. Feb. 10 through March 11

Russian National Library: New Building 165/2 Moskovsky Prospekt. Tel. 718-8528. Daily 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Closed last Tuesday of each month
NEW! Scotland Books, including first editions of Robert Burns, painting, graphics. Feb. 5 through Feb. 28