2005 season
The Mariinsky Theatre will be hosting
the XIII International Festival Stars of the White Nights
27 May - 17 July 2005
Artistic Director: Valery Gergiev
Playbill For July 2005
Playbill For August 2005
- 17th - 19th Century Silver Filigree from the Orient in the Collection of the State Hermitage
The State Hermitage
5 July 2005 - 25 September 2005.
The exhibition in the Blue Bedroom of the Winter Palace in the Hermitage is devoted to one of the most
complicated forms of decorative and applied art - artistic creations from fine silver wire made by masters
of India, China and Southeast Asia.
- The Art of 18th and 19th Century Tula Arms.
The State Hermitage Collection. Menshikov palace
8 April 2005 - 8 January 2006.
The exhibition in the Menshikov Palace includes more than 100 examples of Tula arms production from the Arsenal collection
within the State Hermitage, which is considered one of the largest of its kind in the world.
The Hermitage Exhibitions to open
- MARC CHAGALL
30 June - 20 September 2005 Benois Wing
The oeuvre of Marc Chagall is for the first time presented so completely in St Petersburg. The exposition includes 65 paintings
and 82 graphic works. The exhibition includes works from the Russian Museum collection, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the National
Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Musee national Message Biblique Marc Chagall in Nice, the Beieler Foundation in
Basel, museums of Pskov, Saratov and Tula, Isaac Brodsky Memorial Museum in St Petersburg and private collections in Russia and abroad,
- Vladimir Izdebsky - From the Return Series
21 April - July 2005 The Benois Wing
A one-man exhibition of the sculptor Vladimir Izdebsky was opened in the State Russian Museum within the framework of the
Jubilees - 2005 cycle. The exhibition includes not only sculptures but also paintings and graphics by the artist.
