Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
Branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
July 10 — September 12, 2010
In the bounds of the Cross Year of France and Russia
Committee of Culture, Government of St Petersburg
St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
Centre National du Costume de Scène à Moulins, France
Institut Français, St Petersburg
L’agence CulturesFrance
Curators of the Cross Year of France and Russia:
From the Russian side: Ministry of International Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of the Economic Development, Ministry of Education and Science, General Embassy of Russian Federation in France. President of the National Committee: Sergey Naryshkin
Coordinator of the Cross Year: Mikhail Shvydkoy
From the French side: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de l’Emploi, Ministere de l’Éducation Nationale, Ministère de l’Éducation et de la Science, Ministère de la Santé et des Sports, Embassy of France in Russian Federation and l’Agence CulturesFrance
Head of the National Committee: Louis Schweitzer
Commissar-General: Nicolas Chibaeff
This ambitious international exhibition project focused on Nureyev’s personality, the most mesmerizing figure to appear at the world ballet scene in the second part of 20 century, is symbolic for St Petersburg. Here the young dancer started his career and had left the city for good in 1961 for the world scene being already internationally famous. Although Nureyev was all for Russian ballet school he stayed inaccessible for those worshipped his talent in this country. This exhibition becomes the very first occasion to tell in detail about Nureyev’s international career in his native country.
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Sheremetev Palace — Museum of Music
Branch of St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
(34 Fontanka embankment, ticket-office +7 812 272 44 41)
June 4 — August 1, 2010
 Sheremetev Palace is glad to present unique costumes from the 1960s collected by stage designer and historian of the fashion Alexander Vasiliev. A number of rare dresses haute couture from the period created by the most famous designers such as Chanel, Dior, Balmain, Yves Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Nina Ricci, Cardin, Courrege, Laroche, Cassini, Galitzine were chosen for the exhibition. Most of the exhibits come from France yet one can see also the best samples from Italy, England and America.
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To the centennial of the great dancer
Museum’s main building
(6 Ostrovsky Sq. Ticket office: 571 21 95)
May 18 — July 19, 2010
Sergey Prokofiev named her «the Genius of Russian Ballet, its elusive soul, its inspired poetry», Nikolay Benois — «Rafael with soul of Michelangelo», Alexey Tolstoy — «the Ordinary Goddess», Fedor Lopukhov — «Mona Lisa with her enigmatic yet very feminine half-smile».
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The museum initiates a new project «The Open Collections» (2B Graftio St., Petrogradskaya metro station) that gives our guests the unique chance to see the museum holdings and rare collection items and to come closer to the modern museum storage technologies.
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The F. I. Chaliapin Museum in his former apartments is open on April 14, 2010 after two year period of reconstruction (2B Graftio St., Petrogradskaya metro station, phone 234 10 56).
The museum presents «An exhibition of the unique portrait», the portrait of Shalyapin by B. Grigoriev.
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