- CULTURE & LIFESTYLE GUIDE
- What's the joke? Russian humor
Violent death, repulsive behavior and imbecility are the staples of Russian humor, and English-speakers can now sample these delights in their own language courtesy of an entrepreneurial student.
- St Petersburg's biggest rockers got political in 1995
Just days after federal tanks rumbled across the borders of the Chechen republic, St Petersburg's two top rock stars openly voiced their protest.
- Vladimir Vysotsky: voice for the heart of a nation
Russia has not forgotten her rebellious son who voiced truths about Soviet life which others stifled with hypocrisy, and next week Vysotsky's birthday will be commemorated on the St Petersburg stage.
- Local artists delight, disgust
This month, St Petersburg artists are presenting their work of 1995 to the
public. The exhibition opens with an ambiguous heavy rough construction without any intelligible name -- a sort of three-decked boat on baby buggy wheels.
- Revangard: back to the future
St Petersburg radical artists want to take revenge. They have organized a group with the goal of fighting what they call "the conservative and neo-totalitarian school of arts."
- Workshop revives lost art of golden embroidery
A member of Britain's embroiderers guild, Mrs Rapai presented her rich and
sophisticated works at the London Museum of Victoria and Albert a year ago.
This is her first exhibition in Russia.
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