By Chris Graeme
"Why is it we are always compelled to chase the ones that run
away while those that love us we betray?"
These lines, taken from Pierre Choderlos de Lacos' classic French novel of
intrigue and deception "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," pose a question which
Alexander Pushkin's hero Eugene Onegin should have stopped to ponder before the
tragic results of his romantic exploits became evident.
"Eugene Onegin," Tchaikovsky's dramatic operatic adaptation of Pushkin's poetic
novel of the same name, is showing at St Petersburg's Mussorgsky Theater on
Friday, April 21.
Who's for dinner? (Photo) If you were standing barefoot on a table with a 12-foot-long python winding its way up your leg, would you jump down to a floor teeming with two-inch-long cockroaches?
Illumination - the art of books The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan -- the Museum of Religion -- seems an appropriate place to stage an exhibition of manuscripts and handwritten books.
Travels in old Russia. (Photo) Roads and traveling through Russia have always been a curse -- and they're pretty bad even today.
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES
At last Tretyakov opens. (Photos) Finally, after being closed for ten years for reconstruction, Russia's most important art gallery has reopened. The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow houses the best collection of Russian painting, from 13th century icons to early 20th century avant-garde, in the
world.
MUSIC
Historic club. (Photo) When the Gora (Mountain) Club re-opened after a four-month absence from the club scene to celebrate April Fool's Day, hundreds of people flooded Ligovsky Prospect.
The club where ace is high One of St Petersburg's newest clubs -- The Premier Casino Club -- may have only been going for six weeks but the building it occupies has a long tradition for hospitality.
