Tag: Square of Arts
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Monument to A. S. Pushkin in Ploshchad Iskusstv (Square of Arts)
The bronze Puhkin in the Square of Arts is grreeting the city sung by him and the “generation, young and new”. This is one of the latest monuments in Saint Petersburg set up in 1957 during the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Saint Petersburg. The monument is the creation of the sculptor M. K. […]
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Academic Maly Opera Theatre: Ploshchad Iskusstv, 1 (1, Square of Arts).
In 1833, in the building erected by the architect A. P. Bryullov (the fagade was designed by C. Rossi), a theatre was opened where French and Italian actors staged musical comedies and vaudevilles for an exclusive aristocratic set. A new creative life began at the theatre in 1918, when a new kind of theatre-goer heard […]