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MOSCOW, May 27, Tatyana Ryzhkova. Today marks 320 years since the founding of the northern and cultural capital of Russia. Congratulations to the city on the Neva, stories about favorite places and new art projects that connect Moscow and St. Petersburg — in the material. her»
Tatyana Gafar, Deputy General Director for the Development of New Museum Spaces:
«My first visit to St. Petersburg was in the very distant 1987. I entered the Institute of Painting, Architecture and Sculpture named after I. E. Repin, the Academy of Arts. The meeting with this city was stunning, the beauty of its streets amazing.
I could never understand what surprises me in a city that I already know well. One day I went to Nevsky Prospekt and suddenly realized one curious feature.
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From anywhere in the city you can see the sky thanks to the architectural ensemble, clear, concise and graphic. And I decided for myself that if I need to relax morally, then I need to go to St. Petersburg.
I really love the library of the Academy of Arts, and it's not just about publications. There is a quiet and working atmosphere. The academy itself gives the feeling that history is at arm's length. Such great people as Bryullov and Repin walked along these corridors. The opportunity to communicate with teachers whose works are stored here is priceless. They brought up in us the understanding that history should be respected, not feared and not shied away in front of it. » data-crop-ratio=»0.5625″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»338″ data-source-sid=»not_rian_photo» title=»Osia, the oldest museum cat in the Anna Akhmatova Museum in Petersburg» class=»» />
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The second place is the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House. I saw how soulful a museum can be. There lived a beautiful cat.
My favorite cafe is Sever on Nevsky Prospekt. The cakes that I always buy in St. Petersburg remind me of my student years, bring a holiday into my life.»
Bakhrushinsky Theater Museum: «Everyone has his own St. Petersburg»
Kristina Trubinova, CEO:
Everyone has their own St. Petersburg, their favorite streets, buildings and centers of attraction: the Hermitage and the Russian Museum, the Summer Garden and the Field of Mars , magnificent palaces and modern art spaces.
Thanks to the founder of our museum, Alexei Alexandrovich Bakhrushin, one of the collections in its entirety represents the golden era of the Imperial theatres. Photographs by Maria Taglioni, letters from Matilda Kshesinskaya, sketches by Marius Petipa, memoirs of the director of the Imperial Theaters Vladimir Telyakovsky are just a small part of what we treasure.
Petersburg is also a wonderful future. And part of this future is the world's first museum and theater quarter «Bakhrushinsky», which we are creating today in Moscow. One of its objects is the Museum of the Origins of the Russian Theater, which reveals to visitors the stage history of St. Petersburg during the times of Peter the Great, Anna Ioannovna, Elizabeth Petrovna, Catherine the Second and other bright eras.
Jewish museum and tolerance center: «People of all confessions feel at home in St. Petersburg»
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«Dear Petersburgers, I sincerely congratulate you on the 320th birthday of your native and beloved city!
We most often talk about St. Petersburg as the country's second, cultural capital, and this status in honored by all Russians. The Jewish community was able to join the cultural environment of your great city. People of all traditional confessions feel at home in St. Petersburg.
Projects of the Jewish community of artistic and scientific significance are being implemented jointly with the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum and the Russian Ethnographic Museum. We consider every opportunity for such cooperation to be a great honor.»
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"I wish St. Petersburg to always remain for Russia a center of spirituality, knowledge and international friendship, a city of good manners and high taste. May it prosper and continue to give talents to the country.
These days, the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center are hosting two exhibitions in which the museums of St. Petersburg take part. The State Hermitage provided a painting by Pieter Brueghel Jr. for the project «In the Language of Rules and Exceptions. Science and Art». And the Russian Ethnographic Museum took part in the exposition «Bukharian Jews: at the crossroads of civilizations».
The State Russian Museum brought to Moscow the works of Pavel Filonov, Kazemir Malevich, Lev Yudin, Yuri Vasnetsov, Nikolai Suetin for the exhibition «The World as Non-Objectivity. The Birth of a New Art: Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Filonov, Marc Chagall, Anna Leporskaya and Others», which with great has recently been successfully held at the Jewish Museum.
The State Historical Museum: «I can't imagine St. Petersburg without the Hermitage»
Alexey Levykin, Director of the Historical Museum:
«I can't imagine St. Petersburg without the Hermitage. I love the St. Petersburg embankments, which remember the steps of Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky.
I always come to Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, Oranienbaum, Pavlovsk with pleasure — a harmonious combination of the beauty of nature, the creative, creative power of man and the historical significance of these places.
Any city is first of all people. We have very warm, friendly relations with colleagues from St. Petersburg, and this has always been the case. There is an ongoing professional dialogue, which only in recent years has made it possible to bring to Moscow an exhibition of court costume from the Hermitage collection, Levitsky's marvelous «Smolyanki» from the Russian Museum.
In autumn we will present an exhibition from Peterhof dedicated to the family of Emperor Nicholas I. Next year, a magnificent exhibition from the Hermitage «Jewels! Splendor of the Russian Court» is planned. Moscow is very fond of exhibitions from St. Petersburg, so we will definitely include them in our plans.
Few people know that in the alarming year of 1917, cultural and historical values were brought from Petrograd to the Historical Museum on Red Square, including paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. So the main museum of national history of Russia has contributed to the preservation of the treasures of St. Petersburg museums.
And for the anniversary of the city on the Neva, we have prepared a gift — the album «Views of St. Petersburg. Watercolors and drawings of the 18th-19th centuries from the collection of the Historical Museum». This is the first publication of our collection of original landscape graphics depicting the capital of the Russian Empire».