.This year City Day falls on Friday, so most of the events will take place a day later, on the weekend.Directly May 27 they will celebrate more modestly – but at the Bronze Horseman. After flowers are traditionally laid at the monument (the beginning of the ceremony is at 10.00), an interactive playground will open.

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A view of Saint Peters and Pauls Fortress from the Neva River in St Petersburg, Russia.

.The Summer Palace of Emperor Peter the Great in St. Petersburg.

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News of St. Petersburg by 9:00 | TV channel “St. Petersburg”.

聖彼得堡電視台.20220527自上午9時起播出特別節目報導建城319周年紀念日.

.The St. Petersburg TV channel tells what happened in the city by this hour.

Today is Petersburg’s birthday. It has been 319 years since the founding of the city. On May 27, 1703, Tsar Peter the Great laid the foundation stone for the Peter and Paul Fortress, the first building on Hare Island.

In connection with the celebration of the birthday of the city in St. Petersburg, travel is limited on a number of streets.In St. Petersburg, it will soon be possible to follow the same routes that the first Russian emperor used. A pedestrian area called “Peter’s Way” will appear on the Petrograd side.According to the plan, rain, cold and classic “Petersburg” weather. This afternoon the air will warm up to plus 13 degrees. It will rain almost all day. Forecasters do not exclude the possibility of the first spring thunderstorm.

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Tanks roll during a rehearsal on Thursday for the May 9 Victory Day military parade to take place at Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia...

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.聖彼得堡交響樂團演出at Palace Square – the main festive concert will begin there, the entrance to which will be free: “Classics on the Palace” Opera stars will sing –

St. Petersburg will celebrate its 319th anniversary with festivals, a concert of opera stars and a show at the stadium.SAINT PETERSBURG, May 27. /Then24/. St. Petersburg will celebrate its 319th anniversary with festivals of sand sculptures, ice cream and fire, as well as a concert of opera stars on Palace Square and a spectacular show at the Gazprom Arena. The celebration, which will begin on Friday with the laying of flowers at the foot of the Bronze Horseman, this year will be held under the sign of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great.

“This year we are celebrating the 319th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg. On this occasion, a special logo was even released, combining two significant events that are very close to each other in terms of calendar – City Day and the birthday of Peter I. The citywide plan included 171 events – this is a huge number of events not only of a cultural nature, but also of an educational nature,” Fyodor Boltin, chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee on Culture, said at a press conference in the Then24 press center.

This year, for the solemn ceremony of laying flowers at the monument to Peter the Great on Senate Square, a multimedia facility was designed, which will show a specially created video series about the main historical milestones in the history of St. Petersburg. At 11:00 Moscow time, an interactive program will begin on the square with a theatrical ceremony of the divorce of the historical guard of honor at the monument to Peter I and the reading of poems about the city, which will take place every two hours.

On Friday afternoon on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Sand Sculpture Festival begins, its theme this year is “The Greatness of Russia. From Peter the Great to the Present Day.” As journalists were told at the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the exposition presents 23 sculptural compositions made by masters from Russia and Belarus. “The dominant feature of the festival is a grandiose composition 8 meters high and 19 meters long, depicting Emperor Peter the Great against the backdrop of St. Petersburg and the famous Ingermanlandia ship, a sailing ship of the line of the Russian Baltic Fleet, built according to the design of the sovereign himself,” the museum noted.

The recently restored, highly decorated, Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Saint Petersburg, Russia

.Also in the program of the celebration on this day is a big concert at the Oktyabrsky Concert Hall with the participation of Zara, Nikolai Baskov, Vasily Gerello and other artists who will perform accompanied by the Tavrichesky Orchestra of the Leningrad Region. Songs and melodies of Leningrad and St. Petersburg composers will be heard from the stage.

Tons of ice cream, pyrotechnics competitions and opera stars on Dvortsovaya

On Saturday, the celebration will continue with the ice cream festival on Ostrovsky Square, where, according to the organizers, guests annually eat about 30 tons of ice cream, popsicles and other types of this delicacy. The event will be held for the first time since 2019 – the break was due to restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the evening, at 21:30 Moscow time, the concert “Classics on the Palace Square” will begin on the main city square. “This year’s poster is no less impressive than in other years,” said Ekaterina Galanova, director of the project, at a press conference. Among those who will perform in front of the audience from the big stage are tenor Vittorio Grigolo, soprano Maria Aleida and Veronika Dzhioeva, bass Ildar Abdrazakov, mezzo-soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya and other famous artists. The concert is also attended by the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Philharmonic, the Ballet Theatre. Leonid Yakobson, the Theater of Alla Dukhova “Todes”, as well as groups from Moscow, Perm and Tyumen.

On the night of May 28-29, a special concert “Music of the Palace Bridge” will take place. The Palace Bridge will be raised to the sounds of classical music performed by the symphony orchestra of the Music Hall Theater “Northern Symphony” conducted by maestro Fabio Mastrangelo. The concert will begin at 23:15 Moscow time, works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Petrov and other composers will be performed from the stage on the Admiralteyskaya Embankment. As soon as the Palace Bridge begins to open, the orchestra will perform Gliere’s “Hymn to the Great City”, and the lights of the Rostral Columns will be lit on the Spit of Vasilievsky Island.

A frontal view of the gold dome topped Saint Issacs Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia Five minutes before midnight, the Petrovsky Fire Festival will begin: the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress will turn into a large-scale canvas for creating light paintings and three-dimensional images. As Sergey Korneev, chairman of the Committee for Tourism Development, told journalists, pyrotechnics competitions will become the key event of the festival. Teams from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, as well as from Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Serbia will present their art and skills.

The Petrovsky Fair family holiday will also be dedicated to the City Day: on May 28 and 29, on the territory near the Gazprom Arena, there will be shopping arcades stylized as an early 18th-century fair with goods from different regions of Russia. On May 29, the city festival “Peter’s Assemblies 2.0” will be held at the stadium itself. The spectacular theatrical show, directed by Victor Kramer, will feature popular performers Niletto, Pharaoh, DJ Groove, DJ Smash and others.

Peter the Great

CountryRussia
Town:Saint Petersburg
Year of creation:1782
Rider(s):Peter the Great

or Pyotr Alexeyevich (1672–1725) ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire. With numerous successful wars, he expanded the Tsardom into a huge empire that became a major European power. He created a cultural shift by replacing the traditionalist and medieval social and political system with a modern, scientific, European-oriented and rationalist system. He moved the capital of Russia from Moscow to the city that he created from scratch: St Petersburg.
Sculptor(s):Etienne Maurice Falconet

(1716 –1791) was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for this equestrian statue of Peter the Great.

Description:

Catherine the Great initiated an impressive monument to the founder of St Petersburg as a tribute to her predecessor and to stress her own position as Russian monarch. The French sculptor Étienne-Maurice Falconet created the statue that depicts Peter as a Roman hero. Thousands of people attended the inauguration in 1782.

The pedestal is remarkable: a single piece of red granite; the Thunder Stone. It took a thousand men 18 months to transport the original 1,500-ton weight from the place where the stone was found, to its destination. The pedestal looks like a cliff, with Peter the Great on top of it, facing the Neva River, his horse trampling a snake, representing his enemies.

The statue became known as The Bronze Horse.man by a narrative poem with that title by Aleksandr Pushkin. The key theme of this poem, widely considered to be one of the most significant works of Russian literature, is the conflict between the state (Tsar and empire) and the individual citizen..