If life's a stage,
who pulls the strings?
Puppet dramas
- CULTURE & LIFESTYLE GUIDE
- Festive season of classical music
St. Petersburg is alive with the auguries of the approach of Christmas. It is also the season of the annual International "Christmas Musical Meetings in the Northern Palmyra" Festival, running from December 23 to January 12.
- Five-star Christmas feasts
As always it seems as if most of St Petersburg's expatriates are heading home for Christmas. For those who are not, both the city's five-star hotels are offering Christmas specials.
- Top Petersburg bands in December rock tributes to past and present
St Petersburg will host two Rock festivals featuring the
city's top bands next week. One is organized by the St Petersburg Rock Club,
the other by the Svobodnaya Kultura (Free Culture) Foundation, which owns the
infamous building at 10 Pushkinskaya Ulitsa.
- St Petersburg: where ghosts fear to tread?
St Petersburg is a relatively young city with but a few ghost stories to tell. YEVGENIA GLICKMAN runs a doubting eye over them.
- Basement theater festival
Anyone interested in drama far from the city's glitterati can eschew the crowds at the glamorous Mariinsky and Glinka theaters and catch a show in the unpretentious confines of a basement.
- When ill, mother knows best...
A flu epidemic is sweeping St Petersburg. Thousands of people are down with high temperatures and bad coughs. Reach for the drugs? One flu victim, YEVGENIA BORISOVA, got a little traditional Russian-style help from her mother.
- Russian 2010: Out with the old, in with...the warm pizza
Russia's most imaginative thinkers -- its science
fiction writers -- gave their views last week, after receiving their Belyayev
literary prizes in St Petersburg, on how Russia will have metamorphosed in 15
years' time. SARAH HURST reports.
- WHAT'S ON GUIDE
- Petersburg Gig Guide
- Rock & Jazz Venues
- Classical Program
- Dramatic Program
- RESTAURANT REVIEW: Victory could have tasted sweeter
The Victory Restaurant is a basement restaurant and bar set back from the road. A German--Russian joint venture, the owners seem to have aimed to produce the atmosphere of a smart international restaurant, and have largely succeeded.
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