EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Events supplied courtesy of the Institute of Cultural Programs.

EXHIBITIONS

Repin Academy of the Arts

Museum: Exhibition of graduation portfolios of the Class of 1995. Paintings, graphic art, sculpture, architecture. Month of September.
Library: "The Petrograd Side in the 18th and 19th Centuries." Engravings, photographs, lithographs. Month of September.

St Petersburg Historical Museum, Peter and Paul Fortress
"Petersburg Motifs," "Photographs and Paintings by I. and D. Yegorovsky." Month of September.

St Petersburg Historical Museum, Rumyantsev Mansion
"Great Britain--St Petersburg: Architecture, Parks, Engineering Works, Ideas and Craftsmen." Month of September.

Hermitage
"Unknown Chefs-d'oeuvre." Through September 29.
Japanese Painting and Engraving of the Utagawa School. From September 6.
Standing exhibits include: "The Wealth of the Imperial Palace," "Winter Palaces of Peter the Great," and "The Mint."

Pushkin Apartment Museum
The Avit Center of Petersburg Art presents an exhibit of the paintings of Neratova. Month of September.

Anna Akhmatova Museum.
Paintings by Yelena Belova. Through September 17.
"The Five Seasons" by Mikhail Chernakov. Through September 17.

Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkammer)
*"Chefs-d'oeuvre of the Arctic." Through November.
*Exhibition of children's drawings. Through January.
Standing exhibits include: "The Shaman and the Universe," "Anatomical Rarities of the Kunstkammer," "The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography During the War and Blockade."

Museum of the History of Religion *Standing exhibits include: "Russian Church Art," "The History of Russian Orthodoxy," "The History of Western Christianity," "Catholicism and Protestantism," and "Religion of the East."

Museum of Russian Political History
Standing exhibits include: "Those Who Won the War," "Democracy or Dictatorship?," "Business Russia," "The State Duma Yesterday -- and Today?," "The Past Century and the Present," and "An Epoch Passes, Hope Remains."

Museum of Military History
* Exhibition dedicated to the 250th Jubilee of M.I.Kutuzov. Month of September.

Wax Museum
"Intrigue and Power." Standing exhibit.

Manege Central Exhibition Hall
"The Zoo-Works." September 4-14.
St Petersburg International Film-TV-Video Fair '95. September 15-30.

Russian Artists' Union Exhibition
Center
The Pushkin Apartment Museum presents a combined exhibition of paintings by Petersburg, Italian and Dutch artists. September 16-29.

EVENTS

Maly Opera and Ballet Company (Musorgsky Theater)

Petrov, "Peter I" September 13.
Tchaikovsky, "Swan Lake" September 14.
Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Golden Cockerel" September 15.
Adam, "Giselle" September 16.
Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Tale of the Tsar Sultan" September 17, (12:00).
Verdi, "Rigoletto" September 18.
Verdi, "Don Carlos" September 20.

Museum of Theatrical and Musical Arts
Fyodor Shalyapin in G. Pabst's film "Don Quixote." September 17.
Monteverdi's "Il Coronazione di Poppea' (film). September 20.

Pushkin Drama Theater (Alexandrinsky)
Shakespeare, "Hamlet" September 13.
Soiree dedicated to the 250th jubilee of M.I.Kutuzov, September 14.
Tchaikovsky, "Swan Lake" September 15.
Tchaikovsky, "Sleeping Beauty" September 18.

Tovstonogov Great Academic Drama Theater (Nab. Reki Fontanki 65)
F. Duerenmatt, "An Old Dame's Visit" September 14.
S. Lobozerov, "Family Portrait with a Stranger" September 15.
Anton Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard" September 16.
"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" free adaptation by B Ratser and V. Konstantinov on motifs of Jean-Baptiste Moliere, September 17.
Shakespeare, "Macbeth" September 17, 19.
V. Shushkin, "Energetic People" September 20.
M. Gorky, "The Last" September 21.

Akimova Comedy Theater
Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" September 13.
S. Laskin, "The Accelerators" September 14.
Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night or What You Will" September 15.
E. Schwartz, "Shadow" September 16.
E. de Filippo, "Filomena Marturano" September 17.
Mikhail Bulgakov, "Zoe's Apartment" September 18.
Somerset Maugham, "The Faithful Wife" September 19.
O. Danilov, "Planet of Love" September 20.

Academic Open Theater
J. Letreuse, "A Crumb" September 13.
B. Ratser & V. Konstantinov, "The Godly Dandelion" September 14, 20 .
V. Konstantinov & B. Ratser, "The Hussar from the KGB" September 15.
A. Nikolay, "Love Unto Death" September 17.
J. Cocteau, "The Two-Headed Eagle" September 18.
A. Schnitzler, "The Carousel of Dr Freud" September 19.

Theater of Musical Comedy (Baltysky Dom)
S. Suppe, "The Beautiful Galatea" September 18.
J. Kalmann, "The Czardas Queen" September 19.
J. Strauss, "Die Fledermaus" September 20.
Komissarzhevskaya Academic Drama Theater
Alexander Dumas, "Lady with Camellias" September 14, 20.
J. Anouilh, "Invitation to the Castle" September 15.
M. Tikamitsu, "Seppuku of the Lovers on the Island of Heavenly Nets" September 16-18.

Baltysky Dom Theater
V. Voynovich, "Chonkin" September 17.

Academic Maly Drama Theater
"Gaudeamus" September 14, 15.
F. Abramov, "Brothers and Sisters" September 16.
Oscar Wilde, "O Fabulous Boy" September 18-20.

Bryantsev Theater for Young Spectators
"Sonata of a Happy City" September 15, 16.
P. Maar, "A Week Full of Saturdays" September 17.
Rudyard Kipling, "The Cat Who Walked Alone" September 17.

Bolshoy Puppet Theater
The Goethe-Institute presents "A Lousy Story" September 13.
Y. Ecksholm, "The Fox-Cub Who Didn't Want to be Sly" September 16.
T. Hertzberg & P. Schenhoff, "Visiting the Hippopotami" September 17.

Childrens' Drama Theater
"On the Neva" C. Perrault, "Cinderella" September 16.
D. Bisset "Journey to the Land of the Fairy-Tale Rainbow" September 17.

Fairy-Tale Puppet Theater
P. Yershov, "The Humpbacked Hobby-Horse" September 17, 19.
V. Shvemberger, "Masha and the Bear" September 20.

"Through the Looking-Glass" Children's Musical Theater
Tchaikovsky "Album for the Young" September 15.
I. Yogalev, "Finist the Fine Falcon" September 16.
Y. Podgayts, "Alice Through the Looking-Glass" September 17.

Comedian's Asylum Theater
Lermontov, "The Treasures of Tambov" September 13.
N. Kolyada, "Chere and Ma Chere" September 15.
F. Villon, "Don't Believe, Don't Fear, Don't Ask" September 17.
A. Vedensky, "The Fir at the Ivanovs'" September 18.

Buff Theater
--Main Stage (performances begin 7:00 unless noted otherwise)
"Mandragora" September 13. "Essay-Show" September 14.
"The Millionairess" September 15.
"Don Juan" September 16.
"Two Maples" September 17, (2:00).
"Generals in Skirts" September 17.
--Mirrored Hall (performances begin 7:00)
"As Written" September 13, 15, 17, 20.
"Not All as it Ought" September 14.
"The Godspeed Hotel" September 16.
--Buff-Plus Salon (performances begin 7:30)
"The Smirnov Show" September 16.
"Seventies Hit-Parade" September 17.
"Smirnov-Show" September 9, 10.

Grand Concert Hall of the Palace of Youth
Slavia Dance Ensemble, September 14, 15, 18, 19.

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