The Baltic gives up its secrets from the deep
Twisted, smashed, rusted, rotting, the ghostly hulks of scores of doomed warships lie buried in sand and silt under the freezing and murky Baltic waters of the Gulf of Finland...
Nicholas II seen in a new light
No Russian monarch has caused more controversy amongst historians in recent years than Nicholas II.
For the past 70 years, scholars in both the former Soviet Union and the West have painted a portrait of Russia's last, and perhaps most tragic tsar, in grey monotones.
PERFORMING ARTS
Don't step on my tutu!
Despite its tender years -- it is three years old -- the St Petersburg Male
Ballet is already somewhat of a cult in the city in much the same way that the
Rocky Horror Show became a cult in the United States in the 1970s.
The jack of all novelists
Popular Russian novelist Michael Weller has variously been described as a modern-day Chekhov and even a Russian version of Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunoske by the Japanese.
Bridges across the Atlantic
An American art program, which aims to let school children help children in need, was the subject of a small exhibition in the Russian Ethnographic Museum last week.
FOOD
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Marco Polo class
"I asked a Russian friend of mine to join me for a romantic dinner at the Landskrona. Unfortunately for him, he could not allow himself to be taken out on the town by a woman, and so he missed one of the
most elegant meals to be had in St Petersburg."
MUSIC
A scandal turns respectable
Auktsion, one of the most influential bands in Russia -- which managed to remain together and retain its creativity when other 1980s' groups split up or lost their integrity -- will perform on Saturday.
