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START OF NAVIGATION IN ST. PETERSBURG

17 April 2024

The long-awaited event for residents and guests of the city - the beginning of navigation in St. Petersburg! This year navigation will start on the 27th of April. It means that from the 27th of April it will be possible to enjoy excursions along the rivers and canals of the city again.

WHERE TO FEEL THE TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN LIFESTYLE?

22 March 2024

MIR Travel Company will tell you where and how to get there! The excursion is called the Golden Ring of Russia and passes through several Old Russian cities. The route itself was developed in 1967 with the inclusion of 8 cities: Sergiev Posad, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Rostov the Great, Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Ivanovo, Suzdal and Vladimir. 

TSARS AND MUSES: OPERA AT THE RUSSIAN COURT

22 April 2024

On the 9th and 30th of November the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin will host a music festival Tsars and Muses: Opera at the Russian Court. It will be held under the motto Opera for the Glory of the Fatherland! and will introduce visitors to vocal and instrumental music of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th century.

In the year of the 215th anniversary of the Armory Chamber, founded as a museum by the decree of the Emperor Alexander I, the Music Festival invites guests to plunge into the era of Alexander I and find out how it was reflected in Russian music, how it influenced the opera works that were created at the court of the Russian emperor.

On the 9th of November the Pratum Integrum orchestra will perform with the program Towards the Enlightened Monarch, or From the Grand Duke to the Emperor.

The festival will continue on the 30th of November with the costume opera-pasticcio Alexander and Elizabeth. It includes musical works by composers close to the Russian imperial court at the beginning of the 19th century. Opera-pasticcio is a genre of musical art that was popular at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. It is a mixture of different arias, which is united by a common plot.

The main idea of ​​this year's music festival is to show how the era of Alexander I was reflected in Russian music and what influence it had on the development of plots and the style of opera works created at the Russian imperial court at the end of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th century.