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 June 2005
Playbill For July 2005
- 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 Art of Western European Manuscripts in the 5th - 16th Centuries
15 March 2005 - 19 June 2005
The State Hermitage and the National Library of Russia jointly present an exhibition of Western European
manuscripts from the 5th - 16th centuries (Rotonda, Arab Hall)
The passion for collecting manuscripts in Russia dates back to the reign of Catherine the Great. This was the
time when collections were assembled by the Counts Stroganov, Princes Golitsyn and Yusupov, and by the secretary
of the Russian embassy in France, P.P. Dubrovsky. During his period of service abroad, Peter Petrovich Dubrovsky
(1754-1816) á®llected around 400 medieval manuscripts. In 1805 he donated the manuscripts to the Imperial Public
Library, where his collection became the basis of the "Manuscript Depository."
- Tatiana Sokolova - From the Jubilees Series
22 April - June 2005 The Benois Wing
A retrospective exhibition of Tatyana Sokolova, one of the most prominent representatives of the Moscow plastic school,
was opened in the State Russian Museum within the framework of the Jubilees - 2005 cycle.
- Vladimir Izdebsky - From the Return Series
21 April - 20 June 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.
