December 12 ≈  Day of the Constitution of Russia 
January 1-2 ≈  New Year   Holiday
January 7 ≈  Orthodox Christmas

DECEMBER 3 - 5
II All-Russia festival on sports and creative activity.
Sport Palace ⌠Yubileyny■.
 
DECEMBER 15 - 20
International festival ⌠Exercise▓2000".
Musorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre. Alexandrinsky Theatre. 
Theatre ⌠Zazerkalye■.
 
DECEMBER 20 - JAN. 12
X International festival ⌠Christmas Musical Encounters in Northern Palmyra■.
St.Petersburg Philharmonia. 
Academic Capella. 
Yusupov Palace. 
Inzhenerny (Mikhaylovsky) Castle. 
House of Concerting Actors of Russia. Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace. Kochneva House (⌠Peterburgconcert■). 
City concert halls▓ stages.
 
DECEMBER  24 - JAN. 6
II International winter festival 
⌠Arts Square■.
St.Petersburg Philharmonia. 
Russian Museum. 
Yusupov Palace.
 
JANUARY 2 - 12
V International Christmas cinema festival.
Cinema Center ⌠Leningrad■. 
Cinema Theatre ⌠Rodina■.

Posters of Revolution.
Artistic and documentary exhibition offers authentic posters of the first years of revolution and Civil War, from the collection of the museum.
Historical Memorial Museum Smolny. 

DECEMBER - JANUARY

Ivan Ayvazovskiy.
The first in St.Petersburg monographic exhibition of artworks by a remarkable Russian sea-scapes painter. About 100 items from St.Petersburg collections.
The State Russian Museum.
Vasiliy Sadovnikov. Watercolours, Drawings, Paintings. To the bicentenary from the birthdate.
V.S.Sadovnikov (1800-1879) - a renowned maitre in ⌠perspective painting■, who gained quite a name as pain-ter of land-scapes match-ing topograph-ical accuracy with the poetic image of Pushkin▓s St.Petersburg. The first dedicated exhibition displays over 100 artworks - landscapes, interiors, and genre, from the collection of the Russian Museum.
Inzhenerny (Mikhaylovsky) Castle.
The Gallery of Marat Gelman.
Exhibitions ⌠Dynamic Vapours■, ⌠Beyond the Verge■, ⌠Women of Russia■, and ⌠Social Projects■ offer to the public the collection of M.Gelman, including the works by leading Russian artists of 1990s. On display: items by Komar and Melamid, O.Kulik, A.Savadov, A.Brener, O.Maslov and V.Kuznetsov, etc.
The Marble Palace.
Christianity in the Culture and Everyday Life of Peoples in Russia of the XIX-XX centuries.  
The exhibition makes a part of all-Russia pro-gram to celeb-rate 2 milleni-ums of Christ-ianity and the third millen-ium. It is pre-pated by the professionals from the Rus-sian Ethno-graphical Mu-seum, the Museum for Anthropology and Ethnography, the Museum for History of Religion, National Library of Russia, and the Institute of Russian Literature, with the assistance of all Christian confessions. More than 1000 exhibits are involved to show the confessional and ethnic diversity of such complicated and multifacetous phenomenon as Christianity and its role in the formation of spiritual basis of social culture for the peoples in Russian Empire, and formal variety of religious influence on humans and human society. Icons, written and printed books, Orthodox and Roman Catholic cheap popular prints, unique accessories of rites, church vests due to different confessions, golden embroidery, costumes, household utensils, and also artworks of nowaday pious young people.
Russian Ethnographical Museum.
The Memory of Body. The Underwear in Soviet Era.
The exhibition is composed of underwear pieces produced and accustomed in Soviet Russia and USSR (1917-1991), from the collection of State Museum of St.Petersburg History, and private collections of Yu.Demidenko and A.Petlyura. Historical materials are provided by National Library of Russia and private archives, also rare examples of commercial advertisement on underwear, posters, signed graphic works, photographs offered. Historical materials are surrounded by nowadays artists▓ items prepared just to feature the exhibition (video films, installations, objects, photographs).
Peter and Paul Fortress.
F.-B.Rastrelli (1700-1769). To the tercentenary from 
the birthdate.
Unique materials from the collection of the Museum of St.Peters-burg History: author▓s drafts by Rastrelli and architectural graphics by his school, au-thentic letters by the architect, buildings to his design reflected in paintings and graphics of the XVIII-XIX centuries. The exposition is adorned with items of the Baroque Age.
Peter and Paul Fortress.
Following Ayvazovskiy...
Painting and graphics by artists at Marine Department and Headquarters who worked in the second half of the XIX - beginning of the XX century, the school of the great sea-scape painter Ivan Ayvazovskiy.
Central Naval Museum.
The Exhibition of Summer Works by the Students 
of Painting, Sculpture, 
and Architecture Institute named after I.E.Repin. Practice Period of 2000.
Paintings, graphics, sculpture.
Fine Arts Academy of Russia Museum.
Personal Exhibition 
of Honoured Artist of Russia V.S.Pesikov. Paintings.
Currently, V.S.Pesikov is the Chief of Painting Faculty in the Institute named after I.E.Repin. Ca.50 canvases executed during 1980-90 make the exhibition, landscapes of old Russian towns and monasteries and portraits of contemporaries among these, and also sketches due to travelling in Italy, Germany, China etc.
Fine Arts Academy of Russia Museum.
Celebrities of Culture, Science, and Arts Portraited by Petersburg Artists.
From a series of art exhbitions ⌠Petersburg and Petersburgers■. Arranged in cooperation with the St.Petersburg Guild of Painters.
Historical Memorial Museum Smolny.
Rastrelli and Elisabeth. Triumph of the Baroque.
To celebrate the tercentenary from the birthdate of the architect F.B.Rastrelli, the life story and creative activity of this most prominent architect is exposed, amidst the XVIII century (Baroque Age) during the reign of the Empress Elisabeth Petrovna. Also on display: documents and draughts by the architect, including ones from the archive of Lugano (Switzerland), portrait paintings and decorative and applied art items of the XVIII century, rarities of military glory, and 7-year War trophies. Joint project of the largest in St.Petersburg museums and archives.
Smolny Cathedral. 

DECEMBER - FEBRUARY

Petersburg Jewellers. Artistic Jewelry of the XVIII-XIX Centuries, from the collection of the State Hermitage. Creative Activity of Modern Craftsmen.
The exposition contains ca.150 outstanding artworks by Petersburg jewellers, from the Hermitage collection. Items by famous craftsmen of the XVIII century: Jerome Posier, Jean-Pierre Ador, Jean-Jacques Duc, Johann Gottlieb Scharf, Joachim Hasselgren etc. who worked for the courts of Empresses Elisabeth Petrovna and Catherine II. Jewelry of the XIX century is represented via the pieces by Johann Hellfried Barbe, Wilhelm Keibel, craftsmen from the famous C.Faberge workshop. The exhibits stem from the Winter Palace collection, Royal Hermitage, and nationalized collections of Russian aristocracy. For the first time in the Hermitage, the exhibition displays products by contemporary Petersburg jewellers which are the evidence both of unbroken old masters▓ traditions and a new challenge. Those are items by G. and N. Bykovs, D.Pasynkov, V.Alyushin, I.Malkiel, V.Shestakov, L.Zvyagin, M.Brestkin, designers of jewelry manufacture ⌠Russkie Samotsvety (Russian Gemstones)■ - V.Chernova, N.Kalganova, D.Klimina, masters of Ananov company.
The State Hermitage.
⌠For Faith and Fidelity■. 
300 Years of Russian Royal Guards.
On display, ca.700 things: uniform outfits and arma-nents, banners and regalia of the regiments, paintings, graphics, applied art, and numis-matics items, and documents referring the bright and dramatic history of Russian Royal Guards founded by Peter the Great. The emblem of the Guards was the eight-ended star of St.Andrew with the motto ⌠For Faith and Fidelity■ that gave the name for the exhibition. Arranged by The Hermitage with the assistance of Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, State Museum in memory of A.V.Suvorov, Russian Museum, palace-and-park ensembles Tsarskoe Selo, Peterhof, Pavlovsk.
The State Hermitage.
Calendar, the Custodian 
of Time.
Embraced are 25 centuries the calendar has been known for (the V century BC - the 
XX century AD) and includes ca.300 items. Among them - church and secular calendars rendering different styles and annual cycles, used in the Antiquity, in Orient, and Europe (Gregorian and Julian calendars, Chinese calendar by Lu Bo, Gothic calendar, astrological calendar by Nostradamus, the first Russian civil calendar by J.Bruce). Besides, numerous curiosity calendars, e.g. mounted in a cane, on arms, amphoras, or other applied art specimens, and also astrolabes are on display.
The State Hermitage.
French Art of the XX Century. Pierre Bonnard and Maurice Denis.
Exhibition in the new building acquired by The Hermitage Museum - General Head-quarters. Uni-que decorative compositions: Bonnard▓s trip-tych ⌠At Medi-terranean■ (1911) and a series of panels by Denis ⌠Psyche▓s Story■ (1908-1909), made by the order of a Muscovite collectioner, I.A.Morozov, are worth special attention.
The State Hermitage.
The Nativity Scene in Western Europe Engravings of the XV-XVIII centuries.
Included are ca.100 masterpieces of Western Europe engravings of the XV-XVIII centuries. The exposition is of an iconographic kind: its purpose is to follow the elaborations on the subject by Rembrandt, Dürer, Tiepolo, and other maitres.
The State Hermitage.
Realm of the Eagle. 
Empire Style. 
Over 600 items of Russian and Westeuropean decorative and applied art, graphics, paintings, harboured in new exhibition halls of General Headquarters building - former office of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russian Empire. Some of the interiors keep preserved the decoration made to the design of Carlo Rossi, the famous architect who created the building. 
The State Hermitage.
⌠For Nation-wide Benefit and Common Profit■. To the Tercentenary of Peter I▓s Monetary Reform.
The history of developing monetary system in the XVIII-XIX centuries is described. Ca. 900 ex-hibits: coins, medals of Russia and Oriental and Western European countries, from the end of the XIV - beginning of the XV centuries; a lot of experimental coins and medals of Peter I▓s age and rare coins of the XIX century. Open on TUE, THU, SAT.
The State Hermitage.
Jesus Christ in the Christian Art and Culture of the XIV-XX Centuries.
On display, 
ca. 400 items: icons, paint-ing, and also sculpture, graphics and applied art things. Works by Dionisius, Simon Usha-kov, V.Borovikovskiy, O.Kiprenskiy, A.Ivanov, V.Polenov, M.Nesterov, I.Repin, P.Filonov, E.Moiseenko.
The State Russian Museum.
Exposition of the Jewelry Gallery ⌠Golden Rooms■.
About 1,500 gold things dated from the VII century BC till the XX century, put into 3 sections: ⌠Gold of the Ancient Nomads■ with the renowned Siberian collection assembled by Peter I and the world-famous collection of Scythian gold; ⌠Greek Gold from the Black Sea North Littoral■, from the VI century BC till the III century AD; ⌠The Jewelry Art of the Orient and the New World dated from the XVI - the beginning of the XX centuries■ - unique products of Indian craftsmen, Chinese jewels, samples of toreutics from Pre-Columbian America, and also the excellent collection of ceremonial armament.
The State Hermitage.
Kazimir Malevich 
in the Russian Museum.
Ca.100 paintings and 40 graphic works by this outstanding artist, from the collection of the Russian Museum possessing the largest amount of these. It is for the first time that Malevich▓s activity has been represented with such comprehension: monumental canvases, futuristic books, cheap popular print of World War I times, famous architections, i.e. proto-types of the architecture to come, projects on fabric paintings, innovative porcelain products. 
The State Russian Museum.
Circle of Malevich. Champions. Disciples. Followers in Russia 
of 1920-50s.
Over 500 painting, graphics, decorative and applied art, and sculpture items from the collections of the Russian Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, and some other state and private collections of Russia, Europe, and the USA. Both the artists closely knit to Malevich who worked under his quidance in Vitebsk and Petrograd/Leningrad, and those who considered dealings in cubism and suprematism just as episodical, are represented by their works: L.Lisitskiy, V.Ermolaeva, N.Suetin, I.Chashkin, L.Hidskel, L.Yudin, A.Leporskaya, K.Rozhdestvenskiy, V.Sterligov, A.Tseitlin, Yu.Vasnetsov etc.
Marble Palace.
Konstantin Romanov ≈ 
a Poet of the Silver Age.
A review on life and creative activity of a remarkable poet of the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX centuries, who published his verses signed by initials ⌠K.R.■. K.Romanov was the last Grand Duke - owner of the Marble Palace.
Marble Palace.
300 Years to Russian Military Engineers.
The exhibition is timed to the tercentenary of national engineering corps. On display are fine arts and applied art items, authentic historical documents and effects. Among the exhibits - a large series of battle-pieces, mastic figurines of soldiers from Russian engineering corps in the XIX century; documents, medals, various effects of Great Patriotic War time, models of afterwar engineering machinery, advanced facilities on blocking and clearing. 
Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps.
Museum to Old Petersburg.
Exhibition to mark the 90th anniversary to the museum, in memory of its founders and first employees. Rare items of the XVIII - the beginning of the XX centuries are shown, from the collection of the Museum of St.Petersburg History: one of the best in St.Petersburg, collection of last century restaurant menu, St.Petersburg artisans▓ guild banners of the XVIII-XIX centuries, details of ancient constructions, furniture collection, porcelain ware, architectural drawings by G.Guarenghi, painted St.Petersburg landscapes etc.
Peter and Paul Fortress.
Rozhdestvenskaya Partition.
That was the former name of one of the oldest districts of St.Petersburg - Smolninsky (now merged with the Central District). Items from the collection of the Museum of St.Petersburg History tell about the history of the place: paintings, graphics, photographs, postcards, documents, uniform fittings and arming, excavated finds from the XVII century - the beginning of the XX century.
Peter and Paul Fortress.
⌠A shore, spellbound, 
can I see...■. Blok▓s Outskirts of St.Petersburg.
The exposition raises the vision of the St.Petersburg suburbs favoured by the poet Aleksandr Blok. Ozerki, Pargolovo, Lakhta, The Islands were not only Blok▓s favourite palces but also a part of his poetical world. Displayed are engravings of the end of the XIX - the beginning of the XX centuries, also authentic items of the age: playbills and programs of suburban theatres, railway tickets etc. Contemporary photographs by V.I.Mayboroda, taken from places Blok erstwhile frequented, enframe the exposition.
Apartment Museum of A.Blok.
Oreshek ≈ Noteburg ≈ Schluesselburg.
A small exhibition and show tell about the history of the Schluesselburg Fortress. The focus of the exhibition is a unique model reconstructing the fortress in the 1st half of the XVIII century. The full-colour computer printouts, and also audio- and lighting effects, are exploited for the exposition.
Peter and Paul Fortress.
Musical Salon.
Musical instruments, incl. mechanical, gramophones, musical boxes, early audio recording devices are imitating the environment of Petersburgian salons at the edge of the XIX-XX centuries.
Museum of St.Petersburg Press History.
For Our Childhood 
So Happy...
Child▓s world is shown on the background of political, social, and economical processes of 1920-30s. Documents, photos, toys, children clothing, books, drawings, paintings, graphics, sculpture. Restored fragments of interior of a school classroom, young pioneers▓ room, scouts▓ headquarters, kindergarten. About 1000 items from the Museum of St.Petersburg History, Central State Archive for Historical and Political Documents, and private collections.
Museum of S.M.Kirov.
Anatomical Rarities 
of Kunstkamera.
Dutch anatomist F.Ruyss▓ unique preparations dating from the end of the XVII - beginning of the XVIII centuries; human internal organs, examples of foetuses etc.
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great - Kunstkamera.
Islam. 
The Book and the Sword.
The exposition introduces ethnic cultures of the inhabitants of Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Northern Africa, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Presented are manuscripts and printed copies of Holy Quran, with glosses; also armaments, traditional Moslem clothing, jewelry, home utensils, carpets etc.
The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great - Kunstkamera.
Royal Collections 
in Kunstkamera.
Displayed are personal effects and collections belonged to the Romanovs dynasty, from 
Peter I to Nicholas II.
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter 
the Great - Kunstkamera.
At the Indian of Amazon. 
In the tracks of G.I.Langsdorf expedition.
Items of South American Indians who lived in the River Amazon basin - tribes of Mundruki, Apeaka, Western Bororo. On display: adornment made of various birds▓ feather, headgear, wraps, pectorals made of armadillo claws etc. 1820-1830.
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great - Kunstkamera.
Emperor Alexander II 
(1818-1881).
Life and activity of a Russian emperor surveyed; the exhibition is organized by the State Museum ⌠St.Isaac▓s Cathedral■ with the assistance of the State Russian Museum, Central Naval Museum etc. Personal effects, paintings, sculpture, graphics.
Exhibition hall at museum-monument ⌠Our Savior on the Blood■.
The History of Establishing Smolny Monastery and Institute for Gentle Families▓ Girls.
Timed to the 250th anniver-sary of Smolny Monastery (ar-chitect F.-B.Ras-trelli) conse-cration. Con-struction and rebuilding plans, portraits of architects and Russian empe-rors, and mate-rials illustrating the history of Society for Edu-cation to Gentle Families▓ Girls harboured in Smolny Monastery till 1810, are displayed.
Smolny Cathedral.
From the History of Female Education in Russia. Smolny Institute for Gentle Families▓ Girls.
 Authentic papers from St.Petersburg archives, and new acquisitions of Museum Smolny; the exhibition dedicated to the 235th anniversary of Smolny Institute for Gentle Families▓ Girls.
Historical Memorial Museum Smolny.
Russian Samovars. 
Unique samovars and tableware used for Russian tea-drinking in the middle of the XVIII - beginning of the XX centuries, from the private collection of A.A.Lobanov.
Elaginoostrovsky Palace-Museum.
Soviet Porcelain of 1930-70s, from the collection of the Museum.
Soviet period porcelains by Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (former Royal Porcelain Factory).
Elaginoostrovskiy Palace-Museum.
The Destinies of Russian Intelligentsia. M.A.Ulyanova. To the 165th Anniversary from the Birthdate.
Documents from the central archives of Moscow and St.Petersburg.
Apartment Museum of the Elizarovs. 
Pavlovsk - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
The exhibition is dedicated to World War II demolishing the Pavlovsk Palace, saving museum▓s collection during the evacuation, restoration and revival after the war, and museum▓s prospects. Unique photos illustrating various periods in museum▓s life, snapshot-like watercolours by F.F.Oleynik who was the first architect-restorer in the Palace, and sketches by artist-restorer A.V.Treskin on regeneration of artistic interior are involved.
Palace-and-Park Ensemble ⌠Pavlovsk■.
Searching for the Time Lost.
Various items of nobility household in the XIX century that made the private ambience at home, on the stroll, at a visit, in the theatre etc. Small collection of costumes and portraits of that time are of special interest.
Palace-and-Park Ensemble ⌠Pavlovsk■.
Russian Lived-In Interior Appointments 
of the XIX Century. 
Authentic things of St.Petersburg palaces and country steads attire. Pa-intings, porcelain, fabrics, lighting, furniture, bronze, sculpture etc.
Palace-and-Park Ensemble Pavlovsk.
Exposition 
⌠Pavilion of Roses■.
A pavilion of Pavlovsk Park surrounded by rosebeds, created by the architect A.Voronikhin in 1811, became the scene of welcome gala party to greet Emperor 
Alexander I after his victory over Napoleon, on July 27, 1814. The dancing hall was arranged for this purpose, with the gilt plafond dedicated to martial vigour. Hanging garlands of silk roses decorate the chandelier in the middle of the ceiling, and the interiors are graced with embroidered furniture.
Palace-and-Park Ensemble Pavlovsk. 

JANUARY

Petersburg▓2000. 
Annual exhibition on novelties by city artists.  
Central Exhibition Hall ⌠Manege■.

JANUARY - FEBRUARY

Gavriil Skorodumov.
G.Skorodumov (1754-1792) - a bright Russian artist of the XVIII century, who gained European recognition mostly as outstanding engraver. The exposition of several tens of engravings, belonging to Russian Museum collection, is the most representative of all dedicated exhibitions before.
Inzhenerny (Mikhaylovsky) Castle.
A.F.Pakhomov (1900-1973). To the centenary from the birthdate.
About 100 artworks by the renowned artist: monumental and other paintings, graphical series (incl. a famous lithographic series ⌠Leningrad in the Days of the War and the Siege■, 1946), book illustrations to Russian classic literature.
Fine Arts Academy of Russia Museum.

FEBRUARY

Royal Collection of Miniature Sculpture by W.Hasenberger.
On display, a unique collection of bronze and gesso sculpture of size 55-65 cm, made by the order and with personal partaking of Emperor Nicholas I: their uniform and arms are copied from Russian Army in the middle of the 
XIX century. Also, represented are paintings, military decorations, armaments, banners, archive documents of this time. Provided by the collections of the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, Fine Arts Academy Museum.
Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps.
Russian Artists 
of the XX Century Abroad.
Works by renowned Russian artists of the XX cent-ury (V.Serov, I.Brodskiy, L.Bakst, A.N.Benois, A.Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Yu.Neprintsev, A.Myl-nikov, E.Moiseenko etc.) from the collection of Fine Arts Academy of Russia Museum.
Fine Arts Academy of Russia Museum.
Folks-parade.
The exhibition gives the notion on the vast variety of ethnical cultures, actually of all the peoples that lived within the borders of Russian Empire. Over 900 items (from Kievskaya Rus till the beginning of the XX century) from European Region of Russia, Siberia, Far East, Middle Asia, and Caucasus: decorative and applied art, jewellery, religious cult objects, costumes etc.
Russian Ethnographical Museum.
On Love.
The exhibition of contemporary artists is dedicated to the eternal theme. Arranged by Modern Art Academy.
Central Exhibition Hall ⌠Manege■. 

DECEMBER 9 - 10
Taekwon-do (ITF). International Tournament ⌠Cup of Peter the Great■. 
Petersburg Sport-Concert Hall.
 
DECEMBER 11 - 12
Floorball. Championship of Russia.
Winter Staduim.
 
DECEMBER 13 - 22
Chess. VI International Female Tournament ⌠Admiralteyskiy■.
House of Creative Activity ⌠Admiralteyskiy■.
 
JANUARY 27 - 28
Basketball. International tournament ⌠Cup of Aleksandr Belov■.
Sport Palace ⌠Yubileyny■.
 
JANUARY 28
Track & Field. XXXII All-Russia Marathon ⌠The Road of Life■. 
Start: ⌠The Ring Broken■ Memorial, finish: ⌠Flower of Life■ Memorial.