Vakhmistrov also said that some

kind of disturbance in the buildings

foundation could have also played a
part in the collapse. He said that this
factor was still under investigation.
Although Vakhmistrov said that it
was still unclear what the form of the
By Irina Titova
S TAFF WRI TER
As of Thursday evening, city officials
were reporting that three people had
died and one person was listed as still
missing as a result of the partial collapse
of a nine-story building on Dvinskaya
Ulitsa on Monday.
The bodies of Maxim Eskin, 15, and
Olga Novikova, 31, an employee of
Petrovsky Bank, which had an office on
the first floor of the building, were dis-
covered by rescue workers under the
rubble on Tuesday and Wednesday, re-
spectively. The body of a 55-year-old
man had been found by rescue workers
on Monday.
The process of clearing the wreck-
age from the disaster was completed on
Wednesday night, but rescue workers
were unable to find any sign of the re-
maining missing person, 16-year-old
Marina Pochatova.
On Thursday evening, three differ-
ent bodies the city and federal con-
struction commissions and the Russian
Emergency Situations Ministry an-
nounced the conclusions of their inves-
tigations into the causes of the disaster.
Each of the groups carried out their in-
vestigations independently.
The collapse was caused by a combi-
nation of factors, said Alexander Vak-
hmistrov, head of the citys Construction
Committee. The chief factor was
demonstrated by the negative indices we
discovered while examining the soil un-
der the section of the building that col-
lapsed. The ground there was much less
solid than under the rest of the building,
largely because of underground water.
According to Vakhmistrov, the col-
lapsed section of the building was built
directly over the former site of a canal,
so the foundation in that part of the
building was different from that in the
sections still standing.
This contributed directly to the sec-
ond factor, he added. The engineers
who were in charge of laying the foun-
dation didnt take into account the pe-
culiarities of the site.
Another One Down
The Yakovlev administration
loses another vice governor, and
this one may have left to start
preparing to go after his former
boss job. Page 2.
Quick Turn Around
Following close on the heels of
their 10-day-old agreement,
Sergei Ivanov and his NATO
counterparts get together in
Brussels. Page 2.
Eastern Security
In a visit much more low key
than others of late, Chinese
President Jiang Zemin meets
President Putin in St. Peters-
burg. Page 3.
TV Pioneer Dies
Former Russkoye Video chief
Dmitry Rozhdestvensky dies of a
heart attack while at his dacha.
Page 3.
Big in Brazil
Sukhoi says that it has a close
to 90-percent chance of land-
ing a $700-million contract to
supply jet fighters for Brazils air
force. Page 4.
You Win Some ...
The 11th annual International
Banking Conference opened on
Thursday, with kudos for im-
provements made and warnings
of what remains to be done.
Page 4.
Arafat Hit Again
The Israeli military responds to
a suicide-bombing attack with a
rocket strike on the headquar-
ters of the Palestinian presi-
dent. Page 9.
Opinion. Page 6.
World News. Page 9.
Classifieds. Pages 7-8.
Job Ops. Page 10.
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S TAFF WRI TERS
MOSCOW The United States an-
nounced on Thursday that it recognizes
Russia as a market economy, a distinc-
tion that Moscow said should provide a
tremendous boost to Russian exports
and the economy.
U.S. President George W. Bush
broke the news to President Vladimir
Putin in a telephone call on Thursday.
Putin welcomed this step toward
Russia, which is a real market-economy
country, noting that this will give impe-
tus to developing bilateral economic
ties, the Kremlin press service said.
Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov
was deeply satisfied, Interfax reported.
Economic Development and Trade
Minister German Gref said that current
U.S. trade restrictions on commodities
such as steel, titanium and fertilizer cost
Russian companies $1.5 billion per year.
This is a certain sign, a certain sym-
bol to recognize those reforms that are
taking place in Russia, Gref said on
RTR television. It will present new op-
portunities for Russian enterprises and
investment in Russia.
Russias largest steel producer, Sev-
erstal, cautioned, however, that Russia
and the United States must quickly sign
a special memorandum limiting the pe-
riod the U.S. government could use in
assessing countervailing duties to the
post-privatization period.
Without the signing of this memo-
randum, we can expect a whole series
of new countervailing-duty investiga-
tions against Russian companies, said
Severstals Dales Director Dmitry Go-
roshkov.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald
Evans said in a statement that the deci-
sion to grant Russia market status re-
flects the tremendous economic
changes that Russia has made over the
last decade.
The decision is retroactive to April
1, the start of the second quarter.
That means in future cases involv-
ing Russian products, the department
will now begin using actual process and
U.S.
Follows
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disturbances might have been, he said
that they were now inspecting previous
reconstruction work in Petrovsky
Banks office.
Emergency Situations Minister
Sergei Shoigu, who arrived in St. Pe-
tersburg on Monday night, ruled out a
terrorist act or an explosion as having
been the cause of the accident.
The St. Petersburg Prosecutor
Generals Office has opened a crimi-
nal investigation into the cause of the
accident under Article 216 of the
Criminal Code, which covers the vio-
lation of construction norms that lead
to death.
The federal and city governments,
meanwhile, moved to deal with the sit-
uation faced by the 60 families
about 190 people who lost their
homes in the disaster. On Thursday
they were given inspection authoriza-
tion for new apartments, and the gov-
ernments announced that they will
soon be given certificates to use to pur-
chase new housing.
The cost of the new housing will be
shared evenly between the federal and
city budgets.
Governor Vladimir Yakovlev, who
cut short his visit to Strasbourg, France,
and arrived back in the city on Tuesday
morning, said that every family will re-
ceive compensation in the amount of
50,000 rubles ($1,600). He said that
where victims have larger families, the
sums will be determined on a case-by-
case basis.
The governor also announced on
Tuesday that he had ordered the inspec-
tion of all buildings of the same design
in the city. He said that there were more
than 30 such buildings in St. Petersburg.
While a quarter of the building col-
lapsed and the section adjoining it was
swept by fire, the situation in the re-
maining half of the building has raised
the ire of the tenants there.
The commissions involved in deter-
mining the cause of the disaster were
also charged with determining the con-
dition of the remaining half of the
building. Anna Markova, city vice gov-
ernor and head of the citys emergency
commission, said on Thursday that the
inspections had determined the build-
ing to be in safe condition.
But the approximately 200 people
who live the other half of the building
refuse to return live in their apartments.
By Thursday, most of them had re-
moved their belongings and gone to live
with friends.
We understand the psychological
fear for these people in returning to
their homes, Markova said. But if
major bodies like the State Construc-
tion Commission and the Emergency
Situations Ministry give their guaran-
tees of the safety of the building, they
mean what they are saying.
This wasnt convincing residents in
the building, however.
You would have to be an idiot to
keep living in this building, said one
resident, Svetlana Yakovleva, on
Wednesday. Theres no way that I will
take my children in there. Id rather live
in the street than in a building that
could collapse.
Strangely, though Markova main-
tains that the remaining half of the
building is safe, Vakhmistrov of the City
Construction Committee said that work
had to be done there
The inspectors said that the city
should carry repairs on that part of the
building this summer, this hasnt been
done in about 30 years, he said.
costs from within Russia and from
within actual transactions in Russia for
the purpose of calculating anti-dumping
and countervailing duty levels, a Com-
merce Department official said.
Any ongoing proceedings that
precede our effective date will continue
as is, he said.
As such, restrictions on steel and
ammonium nitrate will remain in place.
But a Russian company will now be
able to protest a restriction and request
a review.
It was not immediately clear
whether any company would ask for
such as review, which the United States
as the right to refuse. Steel producers,
for example, have been going back and
forth in recent weeks on whether they
want greater access to the U.S. market,
first asking the Russian government to
withdraw from a
quota deal with
Washington and
then changing
their minds when
they saw that U.S.
steel prices were
increasing.
Severstal head
Alexei Mordashov
said only: This is
a very important and long-expected de-
cision for Russian metals. We hope that
the market economy status for Russia
will help us with anti-dumping suits
against Russian steel.
The Commerce Department official
said the decision was made after a nine-
month investigation by the depart-
ments Import Administration.
Under the law, the Commerce De-
partment must review criteria such as
currency convertibility, free bargaining
for wages, openness to investment, gov-
ernment ownership or control of means
of production and government resource
allocation.
The Commerce official conceded
that a sticking point and one that will
remain so in WTO negotiations had
been over the states allocation of re-
sources in natural monopolies Gaz-
prom, the Railways Ministry and Uni-
fied Energy Systems.
The energy issue was one area
where we have found the most signifi-
cant problems where government con-
trols have been affecting price setting in
a way that we found to be dis-
tortive, he said.
He added: Commentators raised is-
sues of concern including corruption
and barter, which we looked at and
found that although in both respects
they were problem areas, they did not
fundamentally affect the market orien-
tation of the economy.
He said privatization has denation-
alized the economy even more than in
Kazakhstan and Latvia, which already
have U.S. market-economy status. The
Russian private sector now accounts for
70 percent of gross domestic product,
compared to 60 percent in Kazakhstan,
65 percent in Latvia and 80 percent in
Hungary.
Countries whose economies remain
unrecognized by the United States in-
clude China, Vietnam, Romania and 10
republics in the
CIS.
Vladimir Mau,
an influential eco-
nomist, said the
new status would
give Russia a
much-needed win-
dow of opportu-
nity to develop
trade.
It is very important to understand
that the market economy status is
needed primarily for overcoming the
current situation in which Russian ex-
ports are dominated by oil and natural
resources, he was quoted by Interfax
as saying.
Scott Antel, a partner at Ernst &
Young who participated in the market
status hearing in Washington in March,
cautioned the status does not mean a
smooth ride from hereon in.
Overall this is positive, but it
means Russian companies are going to
have a huge number of anti-dumping
and countervailing duty cases raining
down on them in the near future, he
said.
The war has just begun, he added.
If Russian companies want to compete
in the international arena, theyre going
to have to fight their cause. The benefits
are certainly worth it.
N E W S 2 O Friday, June 7, 2002 The St. Petersburg Times
By Vladimir Kovalyev
S TAFF WRI TER
Yet another vice-governor exited the
administration of Governor Vladimir
Yakovlev last week but in a change
from earlier departures, this time he left
of his own accord.
Vice governor Yury Antonov re-
signed on Friday, citing personal reasons.
Antonov just wanted to go, so he
did, Alexander Afanasyev, the City
Hall spokesperson, said in a telephone
interview Wednesday. He has wanted
to leave for quite a while. He talked
about it for the first time in 2000 and
then again last year. The vice governors
job is not all that enjoyable, you know.
While City Hall officials are remain-
ing relatively quiet about Antonovs
reasons for going, a number of analysts
believe that they can be traced to his
plans to seek a larger role in the local
political arena. Antonov played a key
role in Yakovlevs successful re-election
campaign in 2000, coordinating activity
at election headquarters, and analysts
say that his success and popularity then
are part of the reason he is leaving now.
His popularity had been growing
significantly following his overwhelm-
ing success working for Yakovlev in the
elections, and this was putting a strain
on relations within City Hall, Alexei
Musakov, the head of the St. Petersburg
Center for Regional Development, said
in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
Musakov said that there is a chance
that Antonov may seek a seat in the
Legislative Assembly during the elec-
tions for that body in December, run-
ning as a United Russia-faction candi-
date, and use that as a springboard to-
ward a candidacy for the post of Gover-
nor when Yakovlev leaves office.
Some forces in higher political cir-
cles are happy about the fact that there is
a promising politician in St. Petersburg
who could participate on their side in the
next gubernatorial elections, he said.
Representatives of the United Rus-
sia faction could not be reached for
comment on Thursday.
Ruslan Linkov, the local head of the
Democratic Russia party, said that An-
tonov and Yakovlev were involved in a
long-term game of political maneuver
that began long ago to secure the gov-
ernors spot should Yakovlev abandon
or be removed from his post.
I think that this is going to happen
in August. Yakovlev would be removed
in an absolutely legitimate way,
Linkov said in a telephone interview on
Wednesday. Thats what theyre trying
to do now, to distance Antonov from
Yakovlev so that he can run in guberna-
torial elections in December and make
the claim that he is not part of
Yakovlevs team.
Its a case of the rats abandoning a
sinking ship, Linkov added.
Antonov could be a potential can-
didate for gubernatorial elections from
the Unity faction ... [but] the governor
wont step down on his own, because he
wants his name to be written in St. Pe-
tersburg history in bold letters, Viktor
Yevtukhov, a Unity Party deputy in the
Legislative Assembly, said on Wednes-
day. We should be prepared for any-
thing in this country, so if it happens
that [gubernatorial] elections will be
held in December, we will look through
the list of potential candidates.
But Yabloko party deputy Boris
Vishnevsky disagrees with the opinion
that Antonov would be an attractive
choice for voters should elections for
governor take place in December.
Look at him. He looks more like
somebodys bodyguard than a person
who would be popular with the public,
Vishnevsky said in a telephone inter-
view on Wednesday. If I didnt know
that he is a very kind and intelligent
person, I wouldnt want to be alone in
an elevator with him.
He would cause headaches for those
who are looking to use him to advance
their own political interests because of
his membership on the board of direc-
tors of PTK, Vishnevsky added. You
know who heads up this company.
City-owned fuel company PTK is
co-headed by PTK Vice President Vla-
dimir Kumarin, who is reported to be
the leader of the powerful Tambov
criminal syndicate.
Kumarin denies the claims, saying in
1999 that the Tambov group didnt exist
in an interview with Kommersant daily.
We dont conduct any meetings and we
dont have any membership payments,
Kommersant quoted him as saying
How can Antonov effectively work
against the governor when he knows
that Yakovlev probably has bags of
compromising information about him?
Vishnevsky asked.
Antonov is the fifth vice governor
city hall has lost in the last year, follow-
ing Gennady Tkachev, who was re-
placed last month due to health rea-
sons; Alexander Potekhin, the acting
chief of the Media Committee, who re-
signed in December after an investiga-
tion was launched against him for en-
gaging in illegal business activities;
Health Committee head Anatoly Ko-
gan, who was charged with criminal
negligence in April and removed from
office that same month in accordance
with a request by the Northwest Region
Prosecutors office. Valery Malyshev,
the head of the Sports and Communica-
tions committee, was charged with
abuse of office in July of last year and
resigned from office in October. Maly-
shev died last month of a stroke.
On Wednesday the Legislative As-
sembly confirmed two new members of
the governors team, Konstantin Kon-
dakov, who will head the Sports and
Communications Committee, and
Alexander Prokhorenko to head the Ex-
ternal Affairs Committee. Yakovlev said
on Wednesday that he would name a
candidate to replace Antonov on Friday.
Smolny Vice Governor Resigns
Antonov played a
significant role in
managing Yakovlevs
successful re-election
campaign in 2000.
The Commerce
Department said the
decision was made
after a nine-month
investigation.
ALEXANDER BELENKY/SPT
A group of building residents waiting with furniture and household items on Tuesday.
By Paul Ames
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
BRUSSELS, Belgium Russian and
NATO defense ministers pledged to
step up military cooperation on Thurs-
day, in the first ministerial meeting of
a new council launched to bring the
former adversaries together in the
fight against terrorism.
It is a mark of the political will un-
derpinning the new NATO-Russia rela-
tionship that we have been able to get
down to real business so quickly and so
effectively, said NATO Secretary Gen-
eral George Robertson.
Barely 10 days after Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin and his NATO
counterparts signed an agreement set-
ting up the new cooperation council at a
summit outside Rome, the two sides
agreed on a package of joint defense
measures.
They included better counterterror-
ism protection for peacekeepers in the
Balkans; a joint assessment of terrorist
threats to airliners, nuclear power
plants and other civilian and military
targets; and cooperation to prevent the
spread of nuclear, chemical and biolog-
ical weapons.
We are confronted with very seri-
ous threats to our security, Russian
Minister Sergei Ivanov told reporters
after the meeting. Those threats need
to be combatted with very different
tools than those used during the Cold
War.
The two sides agreed to hold more
joint exercises and
consider using
Russian planes to
plug gaps in
NATO military ar-
senal by providing
transport to ferry
allied troops to
far-flung destina-
tions and air-to-air
refueling.
Such plans dovetail with the thrust
of the NATO defense ministers meet-
ing earlier Thursday, which sought to
overcome shortfalls in the alliances
ability to deploy troops long distance
to quell potential terrorist threats.
Some of the capability gaps that the
NATO countries have are gaps that
could be filled by Russia, Robertson
told a news conference.
Other areas where they agreed to
look at increased cooperation included
providing missile cover to troops in bat-
tle, and submarine rescue operations
an area of particular sensitivity to Rus-
sia following the sinking in 2000 of its
nuclear submarine Kursk with the loss
of all 118 crew.
Ivanov repeated Russias opposition
to NATOs plans to invite in up to seven
new members from eastern European
at a summit in November, but indicated
the expansion would not cool relations
with the alliance.
The question about NATO en-
largement is not our business, it is
NATOs business, he said.
Russia-NATO Meeting
Follows on Heels of Deal
AP
Sergei Ivanov
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The embezzlement charges were not
dropped, and, in January, 2002, Rozh-
destvensky was convicted to three years
imprisonment and all of his assets were
seized.
He never actually served any of the
sentence, however, due to an amnesty
decree issued in 2000 by then-President
Boris Yeltsin, on the occasion of the
55th anniversary of the Russian victory
in the Great Patriotic War.
Rozhdestvensky was born in Lenin-
grad in 1954 and graduated from the
Musorgsky College of Music, the Gne-
siny State Institute for Music and Ped-
agogy, and the Film Faculty of the Le-
ningrad State Conservatory. He pro-
duced over 300 movies and other film
projects including The Afgan Frac-
ture, A Different Drama, The Ex-
ecutioner, and Promenade-Concerts
at the Mariinsky.
Rozhdestensky will be buried on June
10 in St. Petersburgs Serafimovskoye
Cemetery. The funeral service will be
held in the Preobrazhensky Cathedral.
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By Nabi Abdullaev
S TAFF WRI TER
MOSCOW A presidential bill on
combating extremism was pushed
through the State Duma by pro-Kremlin
factions Thursday, despite criticism from
the Communists, liberal lawmakers and
human-rights advocates, who say the
measure will give the government too
much power to suppress public protest.
Justice Minister Yury Chaika, who
lobbied for the law in parliament, told
the deputies the legislation was sorely
needed and asked them to pass it in all
three readings before going on vacation
at the end of the month. The bill passed
its first reading Thursday with a 271-141
vote and was accompanied by amend-
ments to the Criminal Code.
The pro-Kremlin Unity and Peoples
Deputy factions, centrist Fatherland-
All Russia and Vladimir Zhirinovskys
Liberal Demo-
cratic Party voted
unanimously for
the bill. All mem-
bers of the Com-
munist and agro-
industrial factions
voted against it,
and other factions
were split.
Government
officials have persistently reiterated the
need for anti-extremism legislation, es-
pecially since a wave of racist attacks
many of them attributed to skinheads
earlier this year. Other recent hate
crimes include last months explosion of
a booby-trapped anti-Semitic sign,
which injured a woman who tried to
pull it out of the ground.
The bill defines extremism as ille-
gal activities aimed at the violent
takeover of power, terrorism, incite-
ment of ethnic and religious hatred,
public demonstration of Nazi symbols,
hindering the legal activities of govern-
ment authorities and at other goals,
many of which are already classified as
illegal under existing legislation.
Under the bill, only a court can dis-
band an organization classified as ex-
tremist, but the official body responsi-
ble for registering the organization can
suspend its activities pending a court
decision.
The bill also forbids extremist slo-
gans on the Internet, but rights cam-
paigners have criticized the provision as
ambiguous and divorced from existing
legal concepts.
Arguing in support of the bill on
Thursday, Justice Minister Chaika said
the government often fails to cope with
extremism because of legal loopholes
and that new legal tools are needed to
deal with neo-fascist organizations.
However, Yabloko deputy Sergei
Popov replied that existing legislation is
sufficient to combat extremism the
problem is a lack of enforcement, Inter-
fax quoted him as saying.
Communist Viktor Zorkaltsev, head
of the Duma committee on public orga-
nizations, said the bill is anti-demo-
cratic and lays the groundwork for po-
litically charged criminal investigations,
Interfax reported. Zorkaltsev echoed
criticism by human-rights groups, saying
the bills definition of extremism is too
vague and enables the authorities to treat
any organized public group, from striking
teachers to protesting environmentalists,
as extremists.
The Commu-
nists have been
fighting attempts
to introduce anti-
extremism mea-
sures since the
days of former
President Boris
Yeltsin, fearing
they would be
among the first groups to be targeted
and, possibly, disbanded under the law.
The presidents envoy to the Duma,
Alexander Kotenkov, tried comforting
the Communists, saying the bill is not
aimed at opposition groups that act
within the bounds of the law.
Both Chaika and Kotenkov
promised they would take into consid-
eration all amendments submitted for
the second reading.
Some of the key changes called for
by the Union of Right Forces faction in-
cluded bestowing the right to suspend
an organizations activities exclusively
on the courts and omitting the provision
that classifies hinderances to the ac-
tivities of government bodies as ex-
tremism. The faction ultimately sup-
ported the bill 29-2.
Human-rights activists were dis-
pleased by Thursdays vote. Lev Pono-
maryov, head of For Human Rights,
told Interfax that, after the bill enter
into law, police would target innocent
people in order to improve their statis-
tics.
I will not be surprised if teenagers
get arrested on the streets just for hav-
Anti-Extremism Bill
Riles Rights Activists
Officials have been
persistent about the
need for the bill,
especially after the
recent race attacks.
By Vladimir Isachenkov
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
After moving to build closer ties with the
United States and NATO, President
Vladimir Putin is turning to China, which
has been jealously watching Russias hon-
eymoon with the West.
Putin met with Chinese President
Jiang Zemin in St. Petersburg on Thurs-
day, on the eve of a Shanghai Coopera-
tion Organization summit in the former
Russian imperial capital. The group,
dominated by Russia and China, also
includes four former Soviet republics in
Central Asia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzs-
tan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Summit participants are expected to
sign the groups charter, making it a full-
fledged international organization.
Speaking to a Chinese newspaper before
the summit, Putin hailed the groups role
in global security, saying it could help
make Russia, China, the United States
and Europe parts of one arc of stabil-
ity.
While Russias ties with the West
turned from initial post-Soviet euphoria
to new tensions during the 1990s, Russia
has developed increasingly close ties
with its former Communist rival, China.
The Russian-Chinese strategic partner-
ship was cemented by their joint oppo-
sition to what both countries perceived
as the threat of U.S. global domination.
Russias foreign policy throughout
the 1990s was chaotically swaying be-
tween the United States and China, said
Sergei Trush of the Moscow-based Insti-
tute for the United States and Canada at
a discussion on Russian-Chinese rela-
tions on Wednesday. Russia was trying
to determine which of the two great pow-
ers was more important.
China has become the No. 1 customer
for the beleaguered Russian defense in-
dustry, which nearly ground to a halt
without orders from the cash-strapped
defense ministry, purchasing billions of
dollars worth of missiles, fighter jets, de-
stroyers and submarines in recent years.
Welcoming Jiang, Putin said that the
two countrieshave big plans for ex-
panding military cooperation.
Russias cooperation with China cul-
minated in a friendship treaty that Putin
and Jiang signed last July, the first such
document since 1950, when Joseph Stalin
and Mao Tse-tung created a Soviet-Chi-
nese alliance a friendship that slid into
rivalry and then hostility in the 1960s.
Addressing Jiang as comrade,
Putin hailed him for initiating the
friendship treaty, an historic document
which laid the foundation for the devel-
opment of Russian-Chinese ties.
The Shanghai security group,
formed to help reduce tension on the
former Soviet border with China, later
became a forum for discussing joint ac-
tion against the Islamic separatism that
threatened Russia and Central Asian
republics, as well as China.
Although China has not criticized
the agreement making Russia a lim-
ited NATO partner, it has repeatedly
dismissed the alliance as a Cold War
relic that has no reason to exist. Bei-
jing has also been uneasy over the
U.S. military deployment in Central
Asia next to its borders.
Putin sought to assuage Chinas con-
cerns. We believe that relations with
our great eastern neighbor, China, are a
major priority, he said this week. We
have always conducted a balanced for-
eign policy. We intend to develop rela-
tions with both East and West.
While Chinas top concern was Rus-
sias efforts to befriend the West, many
Russian politicians and the media were
worried about the flow of Chinese mi-
grants into Russias sparsely populated
Far Eastern and Siberian regions, which
China has claimed for centuries.
Despite all the talk about partner-
ship, trade between Russia and China
only amounts to some $10 billion a
year an amount dwarfed by Chinas
$120-billion annual trade with the
Putin Calls for Closer Links to China
DMITRY LOVETSKY/AP
Governor Yakovlev talking with Chinese President Jiang Zemin at Pulkovo airport on Wednesday, at the start of Jiangs visit.
By Claire Bigg
S TAFF WRI TER
St. Petersburg media mogul Dmitry
Rozhdestvensky, the founder of one of
St. Petersburgs first private television
stations, Russkoye video died of a heart
attack Thursday morning at his dacha
in Siverskaya.
Rozhdestvenskys activities at
Russkoye Video led to charges being
filed against him in 1998 for tax evasion
after a Federal Audit Chamber investi-
gation asserted that he had made 10.5
billion rubles ($115 million) during the
rubles 1998 plummet. Rozhdestvensky
spent two years in pretrial detention
The Prosecutor Generals office also
pressed charges against Rozhdestven-
sky for allegedly embezzling 142,500
Finnish marks ($27,000), a state-owned
Lada car and $56,000 in cash. Investiga-
tors said the former head of Russkoye
Video had used the embezzled funds to
build a luxurious dacha for himself.
He was, however, relased on bail in
August, 2000 due to health reasons, and
the charges concerning the tax offences
were dropped for lack of evidence.
Rozhdestvensky had suffered health
problems during his detention, suffer-
ing his first heart attack.
Local Media Tycoon Dies of Heart Attack
B U S I N E S S 4 O Friday, June 7, 2002 The St. Petersburg Times
By Torrey Clark
S TAFF WRI TER
MOSCOW Through its Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, the
U.S. government on Tuesday evening
signed a memorandum of understand-
ing with the countrys largest private
bank, Alfa Bank, to promote invest-
ment projects in Russia.
In an encouraging step, backing up
the warm talks U.S. President George W.
Bush and President Vladimir Putin had
at their May summit, OPIC intends to
support a $100-million investment fund.
Over the past year there have been
enough indications that people are
looking. I think this is an indication that
foreign direct investment is on the
way, said Roland Nash, head of re-
search at Renaissance Capital.
Foreign investment has been a dark
spot on Russias economic growth, with
per-capita figures remaining stubbornly
lower than those for Eastern Europe and
other emerging markets. According to
the Central Bank, total foreign invest-
ment fell $1.7 billion in 2001. Some
strategic investments, however, may have
taken place offshore, Nash said.
The memorandum, signed by Alfa
Bank president Pyotr Aven and OPIC
president Peter Watson in Washington,
comes soon after Bush unveiled the new
Russia-Eurasia Investment Fund at the
U.S.-Russia summit in Moscow. OPIC
will lend $33 million to the fund.
The fund targets regions or sectors
whose financing needs are not met by
the private sector. Based on a recent
study of supply and demand for private
equity in Russia, OPIC has estimated a
gap in Russia of $2.2 billion in 2003,
which could more than double by 2007.
OPIC supports eight private invest-
ment funds with $820 million invested in
Russia and the other republics in the
Commonwealth of Independent States.
In Russia, OPIC supports 15 finance and
political risk-insurance projects worth al-
most $338 million, primarily in manufac-
turing and energy, as well as mining, fi-
nancial services and communications.
With good feeling inspired by the
summit and following three years of
strong economic growth, Russia is bright
on the Wests radar. And although the
fund and the memorandum are not di-
rectly linked, they have a common root.
After the meeting of the presi-
dents, this is a very concrete step that
will hopefully accelerate the [invest-
ment] process, said Alfa Bank board
member Alexander Tolchinsky, who
was present at the signing. There is no
shortage of money, there is a shortage
of good projects. We will try to do
things so OPIC money can come in as
well as Alfas money.
The memorandum is part of Watsons
efforts to make Russia a priority area,
OPIC official Lawrence Spinelli wrote in
an e-mail on Wednesday. [It] establishes
a framework for cooperation, including
business development, between OPIC
and Alfa to support U.S. private-sector
investment in Russia, he added.
Under the memorandum, Alfa Bank
and OPIC will cooperate in developing
private investment and promoting for-
eign investment, look for projects they
can support or co-finance and look at
ways to pool private-investment-promo-
tion resources. They will also share in-
formation, including the possibility of
setting up a project database.
Neither Alfa Bank nor OPIC would
commit on specific projects in the works.
We are already thinking of how to
move forward on this, Tolchinsky said.
We already have reasons to work to-
gether and we are starting to do that. By
fall we should have something specific.
U.S. Aims
To Promote
Relations
With Alfa
By Axel Bugge
REUTERS
BRASILIA, Brazil Sukhois Su-35
fighter jet has a close to 90 percent
chance of being the winner in a Brazil-
ian tender to buy up to 24 new super-
sonic fighters for $700 million, Sukhois
Brazilian partner said Tuesday.
The purchase, which may be de-
cided next week, is set to be one of the
biggest arms deals in recent Latin
American history and is hotly contested
by such heavyweights as Lockheed
Martin Corp., with its F-16 fighter,
BAE Systems PLC, and Brazils Em-
braer together with Frances Dassault
Aviation SA.
But Sukhois bid, with its so-called
Su-35 Super Flanker fighter, is likely to
beat them all, said Joao Brasil, a direc-
tor at Brazilian rocket-and-missile
maker Avibras Aerospacial SA, which
will help produce the Russian jet if the
partners win the contract.
Swedens Saab is bidding in the con-
test, together with BAE, with its Gripen
fighter, while Embraer and Dassault are
offering a version of Dassaults Mirage
strike plane.
We are not opening the Cham-
pagne bottles until next week, Brasil
said, but added, we are getting close to
a 90-percent certainty of winning. All
the circumstantial evidence is pointing
that way.
A report in the daily Folha de Sao
Paulo over the weekend said that
Brazils air force had pinpointed the Su-
35 as its first choice in the competition
on technical grounds, listing qualities
such as its long flying range and the ex-
tensive reach of its radar systems, in ad-
dition to the low price tag.
If we can confirm that we are cho-
sen technically, then we are sure to have
won, said Brasil, adding that he had
not seen the air-force report, as it had
not been released.
However, politics and not just tech-
nicalities will enter into the play when
the decision is made. President Fer-
nando Henrique Cardoso, the heads of
both houses of Congress, the finance
minister and defense ministers all sit on
the council that has the final say.
While there have been previous de-
lays in the tender, Brasil said the coun-
cil is expected to meet on June 12 and
formally announce its decision on
June 15.
The government has not said when
it will make the final decision.
Sector experts have seen Embraer
and Dassault as the likeliest winners be-
cause their bid offers an element of lo-
cal production to the jets if they win, se-
curing jobs for the countrys flagship
company. Brasil disputes Embraers ar-
gument that it would be the only com-
pany offering some production of its
plane locally, saying Sukhoi and Avi-
bras would do the same and that the Su-
35 could also eventually be made in
Brazil for export.
Brasil said his company will write
the software for the Su-35 plane lo-
cally, in addition to carrying out the
arms, systems and electronics integra-
tion in Brazil.
Additionally, Brasil said his com-
pany and Russia would jointly build a
$220-million service center in Brazil,
ensuring that all repairs and mainte-
nance will be done here the only bid-
ders in the competition offering such
follow-up.
Brasil, whose company teamed up
with Sukhoi during a visit to Russia ear-
lier this year by Cardoso, said a deal
with Russia would also offer the great-
est advantages in other areas such as in-
creased trade.
[President Vladimir] Putin was
very assertive in showing Russias inter-
est in presenting this bid, when he met
with Cardoso, Brasil said. If this bid is
seen from a country-to-country sce-
nario, in terms of which country Brazil
can triple or quadruple its trade with,
Russia is the answer.
Sukhoi Tipped as Sure Thing for $700M
SPT
The Su-35, dubbed the Super Flanker, is reportedly favored by Brazils air force.
By Andrey Musatov
S TAFF WRI TER
The Russian banking sector is contin-
uing to grow, already having reached
the pre-1998-financial crisis levels, ac-
cording to statements made by partic-
ipants in the 11th International Bank-
ing Congress, which opened in St. Pe-
tersburg yesterday. On a less positive
note, the participants also said that
levels of transparency and the trust
placed by Russians in Russian banks
remain very low.
Among measures aimed at increas-
ing those levels of stability and trust,
the Central bank stated that within
two years it will be prepared to imple-
ment a system guaranteeing deposits.
It is intended that the law for the regu-
lation of that system will be put before
the State Duma by the end of June.
Speaking at a press conference held
a day before the congress, Andrei Ko-
zlov, first deputy chairperson of the
Central Bank, said that the law will es-
tablish a number of criteria for credit
organizations, covering the quality of
business planning, resource base, capi-
tal volume, levels of financial stability in
risk management and the qualification
levels of managers.
According to analysts, the imple-
mentation of such a system will only be
possible when the banking system in
Russia has switched over to interna-
tional financial-reporting standards.
Without having achieved this, it is un-
clear how factors such as financial sta-
bility will be determined.
According to Vartan Dilanyan, di-
rector of the financial-markets depart-
ment at Ernst & Young, who also
spoke at the congress, there is a signif-
icant lack of transparency at Russian
banks, particularly where banking ac-
tivities, ownership and the decision-
making process are involved. This lack
of transparency, according to Di-
lanyan, comes as a result of defects in
Russian accounting standards.
The accounting standard has a
very strong influence on clients and in-
vestors in the bank, he said. The new
code for corporate governance at com-
mercial banks will also be a very at-
tractive factor for long term invest-
ment in banks.
According to Jeremy Foster, a part-
ner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, a switch
to international accounting standards is
likely to be accompanied by a change in
the mentality of bank managers.
That change should be supported by
extra professional education, he said.
At present, about 10 percent of Russian
banks use international accounting stan-
dards. Those banks that really want to
be open in their work, attract the spe-
cialists needed to achieve that.
Sergei Ignatyev, chairperson of the
Central Bank, also noted that the bank-
ing system in Russia presents an obsta-
cle to economic development.
Switching Russian banks over to
the international standard, and the su-
pervision capabilities that this move en-
tails, will improve the whole banking
sector, Ignatyev said. It will also raise
the levels of trust placed in banks.
Reporting on the banking sectors re-
covery following the 1998 crisis, Kozlov
said that more than 90 percent of Rus-
sian banks had shown profits in 2001.
According to the criteria currently em-
ployed by the Central Bank, these banks
are deemed to be financially stable.
In 2001, bank assets grew about
three times faster than the gross domes-
tic product (GDP). The majority of
bank funds were used to finance export
sectors, while companies working in do-
mestic markets took up about 35 per-
cent of funds. About 43 percent of the
total amount of loans distributed were
placed in the fuel and metals sectors.
By the beginning of April, 2002, the
combined assets of the Russian banking
system had increased to 6 percent
above pre-crisis levels, joint capital was
raised by 14 percent and credit portfo-
lio growth totaled 47 percent, without
adjustment for inflation and devalua-
tion.
According to the Central Bank, by
April 1, total bank assets reached 35.3
percent of the estimated GDP for 2002,
while total capital reached 5 percent of
estimated GDP. The total credit portfo-
lio came to 13.5 percent of the estimated
GDP for the same period, with the esti-
mated GDP for 2002 being 10,950 bil-
lion rubles (about $350 billion).
Could Be Better, but Russian Banking is Back on Track
By Natalia Yefimova
S TAFF WRI TER
MOSCOW Trading on the stock ex-
change slowed to a trickle. The State
Duma twice interrupted its morning
session. Crowds of hollering young
men flooded downtown Moscow, ob-
structing traffic. And yet Prime Minis-
ter Mikhail Kasyanov declared that he
and the entire Cabinet are in the best
of moods.
The reason behind it all? Russias
lacklustre match with Tunisia in its debut
at the World Cup tournament in Kobe,
Japan, which ended in a 2-0 shutout by
the unpredictable Russian team.
I hope the success of the Russian na-
tional side only reinforces our teams de-
sire for victory, Kasyanov told reporters.
Lawmakers pushing ahead with one
of the last plenary meetings of the spring
session had trouble concentrating on
their work, as Duma Speaker Gennady
Seleznyov twice interrupted them to an-
nounce Russias goals, both scored
within a tense five minutes in the second
half of the morning game.
The Duma deputies ultimately put
work before pleasure, voting down a
proposal by independent Sergei
Yushenkov to start the session two
hours later than scheduled in order to
watch the match.
Even the markets could not remain
stolid. At noon 30 minutes before
games end trade on the RTS hov-
ered at a sorry $651,000, about a quar-
ter of its average. But Russias victory
apparently inspired the traders, with
jumps in buying after each goal, said
RTS spokesperson Alexander
Dyakovsky. By 1 p.m., volumes had
bounced back to an acceptable $3.71
million, only about $100,000 less, hour
on hour, than the previous day.
Staff Writer Larisa Naumenko con-
tributed to this report.
Market in Soccer-Induced Slowdown
The St. Petersburg Times O 5
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a special advertising section
JT International (JTI) was the first international
tobacco company to invest significant
amounts in the Russian economy (its total in-
vestment to date is over $500 million). Today,
JTI distributes and markets 90 brands of
cigarette in 120 countries, three of which
Mild Seven, Camel and Winston are among
the top five brands. These global flagship
brands, with the exception of Mild Seven, are
also produced at the Petro enterprise, which
developed on the base of the Uritsky Factory,
one of the oldest in the country.When buying
the factory, foreign investors set themselves
the task of creating world class products that
would be affordable to the mass market of
smokers. In place of the old factory on
Vasilievsky Island, they built a new complex in
an industrial zone on the coast of the Gulf of
Finland. The total cost of this production giant
was $400 million. Today, Petro is the most
high-tech enterprise in its sector, being the first
to introduce cutting edge tobacco-production
technology, guaranteed not to break down as
it is constantly monitored by computers that
manage the process. It is also one of the largest
enterprise in the sector, producing almost one
fifth of the tobacco products sold in Russia (in
2001, Petro produced 55 billion cigarettes).
In ten years, the owners have turned the once
run-of-the-mill production facilities into a
flagship in the sector. Expert-200, highly pres-
tigious in economic spheres, puts Petro in first
place among Russian tobacco enterprises. Ac-
cording to the same rating, Petro is one of the
ten largest companies in the North-West re-
gion, occupying third position in terms of la-
bor productivity and seventh in terms of the
volume of goods produced. In addition, the
enterprise is recognized as the leader, ac-
cording to all indicators, in the sphere of food
and processing industries in St. Petersburg.
The company managed to become a pioneer in
new trends for the development of the Russian
tobacco sector. In the middle of the 1990s,
Petro began to market the Pyotr I (Peter I)
brand, the first Russian brand of cigarettes
with a filter meeting international standards.
For the first time in Russia, cigarettes of this
quality became accessible to the mass smoking
public. The brand quickly became the biggest
seller in the country, a fact that was recognized
as a phenomenal success. Then Petro began to
distribute the Russky Stil (Russian Style)
brand, the first Russian-produced top class
cigarette, ranking in the so-called premium
international class. The light modifications of
these two brands were also the first Russian
cigarettes to enter the light category, with a
lowered tar and nicotine content. Finally, the
legendary international brands, Camel, Win-
ston and Salem, began to be produced in St.
Petersburg. In total, Petro has 30 brands of all
classes in its product range, from the so-called
basic class, right through to premium.
From the very beginning, the main strategy
of the company in Russia was defined by the
management as being the development of
local production and the distribution of the
broadest possible range of high-quality to-
bacco products for every level of consumer.
The realities of developing the business,
says Tom McCoy, JTI President for the CIS
region, the Baltic States, the Near East,
Africa, Turkey, Rumania and the global net-
work of duty-free trade, demand work on
achieving profits on the one hand and a
need to reinvest part of those profits in the
further development of the company on the
other. You have to be forever looking ahead,
making the necessary investments at the
right time.
The range of Petro products takes into consid-
eration the varied tastes of customers, as well
as the depth of their pockets. At present, two
thirds of the factorys products are cigarettes
in the medium- and upper-cost segments. The
original predictions for the development of the
company have proved justified: the Russian
market is developing dynamically through a
growth in the consumption of more presti-
gious cigarettes, resulting from a change in
tastes and a rise in the Russian standard of liv-
ing. In the last year alone, for example, sales of
Winston have more than trebled. For this rea-
son, the companys strategy is largely focussed
on the development of production and sales of
medium- and high-class cigarettes. Like any
company, JTI has an interest in developing its
business and receiving maximum profits. How-
ever, there are limits to what the company will
do to achieve this: if people are already smok-
ing, at least let them smoke the best that there
is on offer. Thus, the company continually in-
vests, predominantly in the quality of its prod-
ucts, resulting in further developments in the
companys product range. One such develop-
ment is the new generation of Camel, which
the company is currently promoting across the
world. This re-launch included refined, consis-
tent packaging and product, a new brand
identity and a new advertising campaign.
Camel cigarettes have always used the highest
quality tobacco this remains true. The brands
light category has also been modified, allow-
ing it to win greater popularity. The company is
convinced, as it was with Winston, that Russia
will play a significant role in the growth of
worldwide sales of the new generation of this
legendary brand.
The management of JTI believes that another
positive factor in its work in Russia, compared
with its work in many other countries, has been
the favorable investment climate. A frequently
heard observation at the company is that the
benefits of the investment climate can most
easily be seen in the readiness of government
bodies to enter into a constructive dialogue. Cer-
tain other factors, however, have also helped to
establish these good relations: Petro is the
largest taxpayer in St. Petersburg, paying over
two billion rubles into the budgets of all levels.
Over the entire period of Petros history, since
1992, the company has paid a total of over $500
million in taxes. Petro has also supplied Peters-
burgers with 2,000 work places and their wages
are significantly higher than at most other en-
terprises. The General Director of Petro, Mike
Beeson, says that there is an extremely low
turnover of staff at the factory. At the same
time, according to economists, every dollars
worth of produce sold generates to our econ-
omy another $3.24, while every work place at JTI
creates another 20 in related industry sectors
through the work of suppliers, distributors, con-
tracts and other types of activity created. And as
the Russian economy develops, the proportion
of Russian-produced materials (predominantly,
the packaging) used in the making of the com-
panys products (which rely on the highest qual-
ity imported tobacco) will also grow.
Investments in Petro were the first and largest
in the Russian tobacco sector. In ten years,
they have turned the factory into a powerful
and flourishing enterprise in the tobacco in-
dustry. This in itself, it is believed within the
company, provides a good example for other
major international investors.
Yelena Gai
Investment Pioneers
In the coming days,
one of the citys leading
enterprises,
the Petro cigarette
manufacturer, will be
celebrating its anniversary:
it was exactly ten years ago
that the first foreign
investments were made in
the tobacco factory.
The ten-year partnership,
is a clear example of the
benefits of foreign
investment in Russia.
It brings money into
the state budget,
creates new jobs and the
high-tech production that
arises as a result also
provides a good example
of work carried out to
world class standards.
R
USSIAS ruling oli-
garchic class has a
penchant for amus-
ing, base and even comic tri-
als in which its members air
their grudges against one an-
other and satisfy their basic
needs. One oligarch, say,
takes over a company and
has his rival put on the most
wanted list.
BUT one political trial now under way is re-
markable for its sheer pointlessness in terms of
state interests the trial of Colonel Yury Bu-
danov, charged with the murder of Elza Kun-
gayeva, a young Chechen woman.
Not long ago another juicy tidbit was revealed
about this heroic warrior who did so much to protect
us from female Chechen snipers. He was declared
mentally unstable, and therefore legally irresponsi-
ble. At last, as one of Budanovs lawyers put it, the
smears of rapist and murderer would be removed.
When I heard this, I thought to myself that if
Andrei Chikatilo a rapist-murderer who was
convicted of torturing, mutilating and cannibaliz-
ing 52 victims had been declared insane instead
of being executed, he would nevertheless have re-
mained a rapist and a murderer.
Why hold this trial? Its pretty clear that the top
brass doesnt consider what Budanov did to be a
crime for the simple reason that everyone does it.
Everyone does it because this is war. Not the
powdered-wig war of the 19th century with its turn-
ing and flanking maneuvers executed by orderly
columns of soldiers. Not the air war in Afghanistan,
where Americans gun down the Taliban from a
safe distance without soiling their uniforms.
This is a dismal, medieval war, in which every-
thing comes down to a few ancient and very hu-
man maxims. They killed my friend; I will avenge
him. They killed my mother, my sister, my daugh-
ter; I will avenge them.
This is not war; it is vengeance an enormous
aggregate of many petty acts of vengeance raised
to the Nth power by the incompetence of Russias
generals, the egoism of its politicians and the greed
of Chechen field commanders.
So tell me, why are we trying Budanov? To
show the West that we have a functioning justice
system? The Western stance on the Chechen war
doesnt depend on the trial of Colonel Budanov.
It depends on a thousand different things from
the current state of Russias relations with the
West to the U.S. military presence in Central
Asia.
Are we trying Budanov to show the Chechens
that Russia treats crimes committed against them
in the same way it treats crimes against other Rus-
sian citizens? Well never be able to prove that be-
cause its not and should not be true.
We are at war with Chechnya. In his heart ev-
ery Russian soldier sees the people of Chechnya in
the same way the people of Chechnya see him
as a rabid dog who deserves to be shot, but shot in
such a way that the free press doesnt find out.
The Chechens are our enemies.
Enemies can be deserving of respect. I under-
stand perfectly what I would think about Russia if
I were a Chechen woman. But I am a Russian
woman, and I have the right to experience those
same feelings with regard to Chechnya.
An enemy is an enemy, and in a war he will al-
ways be on the other end of the rifle barrel, of the
law and of compassion.
Yulia Latynina is a journalist with ORT and a
columnist for Novaya Gazeta.
By Sergei Filatov
and Lawrence Uzzell
L
ET us celebrate one of post-Soviet Russias
far too pleasant surprises: the failure of
fringe religions. To this day, some in the
Russian Orthodox Church are still whipping up
hysteria over so-called totalitarian sects, then di-
recting that hysteria against mainstream Protes-
tants and Roman Catholics. Both the Orthodox
and the non-Orthodox still often warn that Rus-
sias slave mentality and current spiritual vac-
uum provide opportunities for religious dema-
gogues to turn millions of gullible Russians into
spiritual zombies. The real story of the past decade
is less exciting but more encouraging.
Where are those millions? In Keston Institutes
forthcoming encyclopedia on religion in Russia,
we try to study this and other controversial ques-
tions empirically. A recently published anthology
of essays provides an advance
taste of our findings on topics
such as diocesan politics, in-
ter-faith and church-state re-
lations, and the rise and fall
of new religious movements.
The rise and fall are inter-
esting in sharply different
ways. The perestroika years
created a more hospitable cli-
mate in Russia than any-
where in the West for movements such as the
Moonies and the Scientologists temporarily.
The manifest failure of state atheism and sudden
new respectability of religion in general, combined
with ignorance about particular religions, made for
scenes worthy of comic opera.
We remember the conspicuous exhibit at
Moscow State Universitys journalism library hon-
oring a man whom one instructor called the great
American philosopher L. Ron Hubbard. In 1990,
Mikhail Gorbachev himself gave a personal audi-
ence to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Soon the
Education Ministry was giving the Moonies privi-
leged access to thousands of state schools with
their captive audiences of impressionable pupils.
In the early 1990s, Western faiths had the same
kind of advantages over traditional Russian reli-
gions that McDonalds had over Russian eateries:
not just capital but Western organizational tech-
niques, including experience competing in the free
market. But the religious entrepreneurs proved far
less successful.
Even at their peak in 1994, the Moonies had
only about 5,000 full-fledged members in Russia.
In 2000, the dwindling flock of Russian Moonies
suffered a severe blow when one of their most vis-
ible leaders, historian Lev Semyonov, converted to
the Orthodox Church.
Russians soon learned how to use the new con-
ditions to sell homegrown cults such as the White
Brotherhood, with its crude appeal to Slavic na-
tionalism. This movement claimed that its leader,
Marina Tsvigun, was the reincarnation of both Je-
sus Christ and the Virgin Mary and predicted that
the world would end in 1993. Only 144,000 people
would be saved all of them Slavs.
The White Brotherhood displayed the classic
attributes of a cult, such as the isolation of its
members from outside influences, demands that
they renounce normal social life and secular ca-
reers, and insistence on unquestioning obedience.
But however useful the concept of cults may be to
sociologists, there is no reliable way to codify it as
a precise legal term. Renunciation of property, as-
ceticism, obedience all these have been re-
quirements of monastic life, including that of the
Orthodox Church, for centuries. Any legislation
empowering the state to crush destructive sects
would also enable it to persecute any religion.
In October 1993, however, the White Brother-
hood did something justifying the arrest of its lead-
ers: it stormed the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia
in Kiev. Unfortunately for Tsvigun, the world did not
come to an end that autumn as she had predicted,
nor did the Kiev police. She ended up spending sev-
eral years in prison. In Russia, unlike Ukraine, her
followers committed no such assaults and suffered
no serious state repression but they never num-
bered more than 4,000. Now there are perhaps 1,000
of them. As with the imported cults, what is striking
here is the discrepancy between their tiny size and
societys stormy reaction.
In fact, it is repression
rather than freedom that
causes sects to become en-
trenched in their most sectar-
ian characteristics. In free so-
cieties, these movements
usually abandon their defi-
ance of social norms within
just one generation. In au-
thoritarian Russia, by con-
trast, the 18th-century
Skoptsi continued to practice self-castration until
at least the middle of the 20th century.
Russian religious life is now characterized by
eclecticism and experimentation. Rather than be-
coming highly disciplined followers of sects strictly
controlled by their leaders, today Russians dabble in
readings and discussion groups from a wide variety
of movements often mutually contradictory. The
current situation of religious entropy is now becom-
ing a stable system rather than a transitional stage to
a new religion. The Russian Orthodox Church itself
is now infected with this nontraditional religiosity.
For serious Orthodox Christians, this is unfor-
tunate, but the remedy is in their own hands. The
Moscow Patriarchate should be more consistent
about teaching its members their heritage. For ex-
ample, its priests in northern Siberia should stop
encouraging simple-minded believers to arrange
both Christian baptism and pagan initiation cere-
monies for their children. Parishes in university
towns should insist that Orthodox Christianity is
logically incompatible with certain other belief sys-
tems, and that Sunday-school teachers and Bible-
study leaders should stop blending Orthodoxy
with the promotion of flying saucers, extra-sensory
perception and New Age teachings.
The entrenched reflex of todays Moscow Patri-
archate is to rely on the secular state to protect its
status as a traditional religion but the states
agenda will not always coincide with the teachings
of Orthodox Christianity, and the state will always
put its own interests first. If it is truly serious about
opposing new religious movements, the Orthodox
Church should rely more on its own preaching and
internal discipline and less on the courts and police.
Lawrence Uzzell is head of Keston Institute
(www.keston.org), an independent research center
based in Oxford, England. Sergei Filatov of the
Russian Academy of Sciences is editor of Kestons
forthcoming encyclopedia on religious life in post-
Soviet Russia. They contributed this comment to
The St. PetersburgTimes.
O P I N I O N 6 O Friday, June 7, 2002 The St. Petersburg Times
Chechnya Isnt
A War Made
For the Courts
A Less Secular Approach
It is repression, not
freedom, that causes
sects to be entrenched
in their most sectarian
characteristics.
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KINHEADS threaten a dozen em-
bassies with a war against foreign-
ers. An Afghan man dies after a
racist attack in the metro. Shaven-headed
teens beat a Jewish boy and break his
nose. A booby-trapped road sign with an
anti-Semitic slogan explodes and seriously
injures a passer-by when she tries to re-
move it.
There is no question that something
needs to be done to stop these worrisome
hate attacks, which were just a few among
dozens of similar incidents reported across
the country.
But the new law on extremism that the
Kremlin is suggesting is not the answer. The
bill drafted by the presidential administra-
tion is so vague that it could be used to out-
law Greenpeace, peaceful protesters at un-
sanctioned rallies and even the Commu-
nists, should they re-emerge as a force to be
reckoned with.
It is small comfort that the bill permits
only the courts to determine which group is
extremist, because the authorities can still
suspend the accuseds activities pending the
ruling. And the wait could take months.
Moreover, only groups officially regis-
tered with the proper authorities can have
their activities suspended. The loosely orga-
nized skinheads terrorizing the country have
no registration permits.
Extremism is fed by factors that are all
too prevalent in present-day Russia cor-
ruption, economic despair, moral decay and
spiritual disorientation. Stopping extremism
requires just the opposite a reliable jus-
tice system, economic opportunity and eth-
nic and religious tolerance.
The necessary long-term measures are
the same ones that are needed across the
board rooting out corruption at all levels
of the government and building a stable
economy with fair, timely wages and the op-
portunity for career growth. Government
and religious leaders should be tolerant of
various faiths, never favoring or deriding
one or another. Also, schools should help
foster tolerance, picking up the slack where
parents and society fail.
Those who commit hate crimes must be
punished for hate crimes and not for hooli-
ganism, as the police and courts now usu-
ally define their offenses. But a law on ex-
tremism is not required to fight the battle;
existing laws are sufficient. What is missing
is the political will to enforce them.
Granted, there is no easy way out of the
problem, in part because it has been left
unchecked for so long. But rather than
fighting fire with fire or drawing up a law
to show that the recent jump in hate crimes
is being dealt with the Kremlin needs to
heed the old proverb that an ounce of pre-
vention is worth a pound of cure.
Time To Call
A Hate Crime
A Hate Crime
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m. Two bedrooms: 16 + 20 sq. m.
Balcony. Fully furnished, fully
equipped kitchen. Big bathroom.
Clean, secure entrance. Beautiful
marble staircase. Parking. Short- or
long-term stay. Tel.: 543-8163,
949-4199, 318-1120.
Italyanskaya Ul., corner of Nab. Reki
Fontanki. 3/6 floor. Rooms: 30 +
28 sq. m. Kitchen: 40 sq. m.
Western renovated in 2002.
Bathroom: 15 sq. m. Jacuzzi, new
furniture, satellite TV, fireplace,
fully equipped with BOSCH appli-
ances, air conditioning. View of
Fontanka River. 24-hour secure
entrance, parking. $550 per
month, $35 per day. Tel.: 341-
6018, 312-0290.
Two-room apartment on NAB. REKI
MOIKI, corner of Nevsky. Rooms:
34 + 32 sq. m. Kitchen: 40 sq. m.
2/5 floor. Bathroom: 25 sq. m.
(French jacuzzi, sauna). New Italian
furniture. Satellite TV. View of St.
Isaacs Cathedral, near Astoria
Hotel. Secure, clean entrance. Any
terms. $500 per month, $30 per
day. Tel.: 596-4332, 312-0290.
RENT-A-FLAT at the corner of Nevsky
Pr., from $300 per week. Fully fit-
ted, furnished two-room apartment
with secure entrance. For more
information, call COLLIERS INTER-
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NAB. REKI MOIKI. Best location,
view of Moika River, quiet, comfort-
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case. Tel.: 320-1888, 937-7533,
967-2283, K-KESKUS Agency.
18 Nevsky Pr. 5 Kazanskaya Ul. Tel.:
325-8653.
Two-room apartment. Any terms. Tel.:
998-9730.
Kronverksky Pr. Renovated. Sauna.
Jacuzzi. Code. $800 per month.
Tel.: 910-1066, INATA Agency. E-
mail: inata1@mail.wplus.net
NEVSKY PROSTOR Ltd. Elite two-
room apartment at 109 Nevsky Pr.
close to M: Ploshchad Vosstaniya.
Second floor. Living room (25 sq.
m.) and bedroom (20 sq. m.) with
stylish furniture. Satellite TV. Fully
fitted kitchen. Large bathroom,
jacuzzi. Code-locked entrance.
Parking in the guarded courtyard.
$120 per day. This apartment can
be booked in advance. Tel.: 992-
1522, Irina, www.irina.spb-
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Stylish furniture. Fully equipped.
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APARTMENTS
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Apartment on Nevsky Pr. Any terms.
Tel.: 325-8653, 322-2559.
Nevsky Pr. $40 per night. Tel. 186-
8839.
Two-level apartment on MILLION-
NAYA UL. Total area: 170 sq. m.
Deluxe. Near the Hermitage. View
over the Neva River. Kitchen with
bar: 40 sq. m. Two bathrooms
(jacuzzi, sauna). Secure marble
entrance. Parking. European furni-
ture. $900 per month, $50 per day.
Tel.: 312-0290, 341-6018.
Nevsky Pr. Studio. Deluxe. $60 per
night. Tel.: 943-8975.
Nevsky Pr. $40 per night. Tel.: 969-
3624. www.duckling.narod.ru
Center. $20 per night. Tel.: 164-
7563, 8-921-634-5547.
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Malaya Konyushennaya Ul. 3/5 floor.
130 sq. m. Exclusive design.
Eurorenovated in 2002. Jacuzzi,
two bathrooms. Wonder ful view.
24-hour security. Tel.: 325-3151,
934-6657.
Nab. Reki Moiki. 3/5 floor. 120 sq.
m. Modern design. Eurorenovated.
Two bathrooms, jacuzzi. Concierge.
Fully equipped. $1,400 per month.
Tel.: 324-3151, 934-6657.
NAB. REKI MOIKI. 140 sq. m. Two
bedrooms: 40 + 16 sq. m. Living
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secure parking. Tel.: 320-1888,
937-7533, 967-2283, K-KESKUS
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Bathroom equipped with jacuzzi
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Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Three-room
apartment. Rooms: 25 + 25 + 35.
Kitchen/dining room. Hall. 2/5
floor. Two entrances. Security. Pink
and white bedrooms. Modern reno-
vation. European style.
Representative class apartment.
Suitable for living and for business
negotiations. $1,800 per month.
Negotiatable. Tel.: 327-6747. 24
hours. ARGO agency.
Petrovskaya Nab. Exiting view of the
Hermitage and Neva River. Bedroom:
20 sq. m. Living room: 30 sq. m.
Kitchen/dining room: 220 sq. m. Big
balcony. Quality Eurorenovation.
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staircase. Voice system at the
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WorldFRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2002
Fighting in Myanmar
I BANGKOK (Reuters) Intense
fighting in eastern Myanmar between
government troops and ethnic guerrillas
has killed dozens and threatens to spill
over into neighboring Thailand, mili-
tary sources said on Thursday.
The Myanmar Army and its allies in
the United Wa State Army have been at-
tacking positions held by a rival ethnic
group, the Shan State Army (SSA), op-
posite Thailands Chiang Mai province,
in a battle for territory and for control of
the drug trade.
Thai officials said that more than a
dozen shells fired by one or both sides
had landed inside Thailand since Tues-
day and that many Shan army troops
had retreated across the border for
medical treatment.
A Shan source said that his forces
had killed about 150 Myanmar and Wa
soldiers and wounded many others in
heavy fighting along the border since
May 20. He declined to give an estimate
for the Shans casualties.
Sudanese Rebels Killed
I KAMPALA, Uganda (AP)
Ugandan troops killed 67 rebels in a
battle inside southern Sudan, an army
spokesperson said Thursday, part of a
continuing offensive to wipe out the 15-
year-old rebel group.
A contingent of 150 Lords Resis-
tance Army rebels came down from
their hiding place in the Imatong moun-
tains to search for food and were fol-
lowed by Ugandan troops, Major Sha-
ban Bantariza said. The two sides
fought this week at Owiny-Kibul, 50
kilometers north of the Uganda border,
he said, but he did not specify a date.
Many of the 67 rebels killed were of-
ficers, the army spokesperson said, be-
cause we found many abandoned [in-
signias] bearing ranks of captains and
majors. Two Ugandan soldiers were
injured.
Archbishops Apologize
I The archbishops of Melbourne and
Sydney on Thursday apologized to
Australian sexual abuse victims of the
Catholic Church.
The apology comes after claims that
Sydney Archbishop George Pell tried
to buy the silence of sex abuse victims
when he was bishop of the city of Bal-
larat in the 1990s.
In the written apology, Pell and
Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart
said their goal was to move toward
healing.
On behalf of the Catholic Church
in Melbourne and Sydney, and person-
ally, we apologize, sincerely and unre-
servedly, to all victims of abuse, and to
the Australian community, for the
wrongs and hurt suffered, the Church
leaders said.
Congo Rebels To Talk
I KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) Con-
golese rebels have agreed to informal ne-
gotiations with the government and a ri-
val rebel group that eventually could end
the countrys nearly four-year civil war, a
senior rebel official said on Monday.
The Congolese government called
the rebel move a good thing.
The rebel agreement followed
plans by UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan to appoint two African media-
tors to oversee the informal negotia-
tions, said Joseph Mudumbi, foreign
affairs chief of the Rwandan-backed
rebel Congolese Rally for Democracy,
or RCD.
The informal talks would help define
power-sharing arrangements among the
Congolese government, rebel groups,
political parties and civil society during
Congos transition from war to demo-
cratic elections, Mudumbi said.
W O R L D W A T C H
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
RAMALLAH, West Bank Israeli
troops stormed Palestinian President
Yasser Arafats headquarters early
Thursday, blew up three buildings in the
sprawling compound, and shelled the
Palestinian leaders living area in re-
sponse to a Palestinian suicide attack on
an Israeli bus that killed 17 passengers.
A shell or rocket hit about two me-
ters from Arafats bed, punching a hole
through the wall dividing his bedroom
and an adjacent bathroom.
Pointing to his dust-covered bed,
broken bedroom mirror and shattered
bathroom tiles, Arafat suggested Israel
was trying to harm him. I was sup-
posed to sleep here last night but I had
some work downstairs, he said.
Of course [the Israelis] knew where
I was. Everybody knows this is my bed-
room.
An Israeli Army spokesperson,
Captain Jacob Dallal, said Arafat was
not the target of the operation. If there
had been any intention of harming
Arafat, it would not have been a prob-
lem, Dallal said.
Thursdays assault with bulldozers
and tanks came just a month after
troops withdrew from the compound
following a 34-day siege that confined
Arafat to several rooms. Though Is-
raels stated goal at the time was to iso-
late Arafat and remove him from con-
tacts with the outside world, the virtual
house arrest turned him into a heroic
figure in the eyes of Palestinians and
much of the Arab world.
There has been speculation that an-
other major Palestinian terror attack
would prompt Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon to expel Arafat.
The Palestinian leader shrugged off
such a scenario on Thursday. Expel
me? he said. I will die here.
However, other prominent Israelis
warn that expelling Arafat might lead
to chaos and more violence.
Thursdays attack on Arafats com-
pound came in response to a suicide
bombing on Wednesday in which a
member of the Islamic Jihad group,
driving a car packed with 20 kilograms
of explosives, pulled up alongside a
moving bus and detonated the load, ig-
niting a huge fireball. Seventeen Israelis
and the assailant were killed.
The force of the blast flipped the bus
over twice. Many passengers were
trapped in burning vehicles, while oth-
ers were hurled onto the asphalt.
Among the dead were 13 soldiers in
their late teens and early 20s. Forever
20, read the headline in the Yediot
Ahronot daily Thursday, alongside the
pictures of the victims.
The Israeli daily Maariv wrote in an
editorial on Thursday that the blood-
boiling spectacle of the people who
were burned to death in a bus ... needs
to bring us very close to a decision to rid
the region of Arafats presence.
Islamic Jihad identified the attacker
as Hamza Samudi from the West Bank
town of Jenin. Relatives said that
Samudi was 18, and that he had learned
to drive only four days before the attack.
Israeli tanks entered Arafats com-
pound at about 2 a.m. on Thursday. The
military said that its forces took control
of Arafats headquarters in the wake
of a wave of Palestinian terrorism
sweeping the state of Israel, including
the attack on the bus. The statement
said that the Palestinian Authority is
directly responsible for terrorism that
originates in its territory.
Troops blew up three buildings, in-
cluding the Palestinian intelligence
headquarters, reducing them to piles
of rubble.
The army said that, during the oper-
ation, Palestinian security forces
opened fire at Israeli soldiers who re-
turned fire. Palestinian security officials
insisted that they did not shoot at the Is-
raelis. One Palestinian security guard
was killed.
Two hours after the Israeli soldiers
left on Thursday, Arafat emerged from
his office building, flashing a V-for-vic-
tory sign as he was greeted by about 100
civilians at the entrance to the building.
This will only increase the steadfast-
ness of our people, Arafat said, refer-
ring to the Israeli attack.
Elsewhere in the West Bank on
Thursday, Israeli forces left the city of
Nablus, which they had entered a week
ago to carry out a series of searches for
Palestinian militants and caches of ex-
plosives and weapons.
Arafats Compound Struck in Retribution
OSAMA SILWADI/REUTERS
A group of Palestinians standing on Thursday afternoon in front of Arafats damaged headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank
THE WAS HI NGTON POS T
NEW DELHI Pakistan on Thursday
dismissed an Indian proposal for joint
military patrols to curb the flow of Is-
lamic militants into the contested Kash-
mir region, as each side maneuvered for
advantage before the arrival of high-
level U.S. officials.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee suggested the patrols before
departing on Thursday from Almaty,
Kazakhstan, where he had attended a
security conference with regional lead-
ers, including Pakistans president, Gen-
eral Pervez Musharraf.
Despite the efforts of Russian Presi-
dent Vladimir Putin, Vajpayee refused
to meet with Musharraf during the ses-
sion, saying that there was no point in
doing so until Pakistan halted incur-
sions by Islamic militants fighting In-
dian rule in Kashmir, a divided region
claimed by Pakistan and India.
The administration of U.S. President
George W. Bush has also pressured
Pakistan to end the incursions; some
US officials had expressed hope that
joint patrols might help ease the stand-
off between the two nuclear-armed
neighbors, which have positioned 1 mil-
lion troops on either side of their 2,400-
kilometer border.
Bush called Musharraf and Vaj-
payee on Thursday, urging them to take
steps to lower tensions and pursue a
diplomatic solution to their dispute.
In his conversation with Musharraf,
Bush again said he expects the Pak-
istani leader to make good on his com-
mitment to end the incursions by Is-
lamic militants, White House
spokesperson Ari Fleischer said.
Bush later told Vajpayee that India
would have to respond with de-escala-
tory steps of its own. Fleischer said
that these could include withdrawing
troops from the border.
Pakistani officials said they are com-
plying with the U.S. request to curb the
incursions while continuing to support
the cause of Kashmiri Muslims opposed
to Indian rule. In a statement released
in Islamabad, Pakistans Foreign Min-
istry brushed off the Indian proposal for
joint patrols as unworkable and unnec-
essary. The proposal is not new, the
statement said. Given the state of Pak-
istan-India relations, mechanisms for
joint patrolling are unlikely to work.
The statement reiterated Pakistans
long-standing willingness to accept
neutral third-party monitoring of the
Line of Control, which divides Kashmir
into Indian and Pakistani-controlled
sectors. Indian officials reject that idea,
contending that any steps toward in-
ternationalizing the conflict would en-
courage separatists in other parts of
their country.
India and Pakistan, which have
fought two of their three wars over
Kashmir, have been bristling at one an-
other since an attack in December by
Islamic militants on the Indian Parlia-
ment. The confrontation escalated on
May 14 when militants staged an attack
on an Indian Army camp in Kashmir, in
which 34 people, mostly women and
children, were killed. Vajpayee re-
sponded to the second attack by threat-
ening to launch a decisive battle
against Pakistan, spurring ambiguous
retaliatory threats from Islamabad that
have raised fears of a nuclear exchange.
Indias defense minister, George
Fernandes, told reporters on Thursday
in the southern city of Bangalore that
there had been no substantial or no-
ticeable reduction in infiltration along
the Line of Control. Pakistan disputed
that claim, and said that only an outside
party could render an impartial judg-
ment. We refuse to accept the Indian
claim of being the accusers as well as
the judges, Musharraf said in an inter-
view with CNN. If they are the ac-
cusers, let there be somebody else to
act as the judge.
Pakistan Rejects Proposal for Shared Border Patrols
ARKO DATTA/REUTERS
An Indian soldier participating in a drill on Thursday near the India-Pakistan border
A shell or rocket hit
about two meters
from Arafats bed,
punching a hole
through the wall.
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Triple Crown Chaser
I ELMONT, New York (Reuters)
War Emblem will start Saturdays Bel-
mont Stakes from post position 10 in his
bid to become the first horse to win the
Triple Crown in 24 years. Ridden by Vic-
tor Espinoza, War Emblem is the even-
money favourite in the 12-horse field.
Trainer Bob Baffert was delighted
with Wednesdays draw at Belmont
Park, where his Triple Crown dreams
have been frustrated twice before.
I wanted an outside draw, Baffert
said. Id rather be on the outside than
the inside. Hes a fast horse and he can
dictate whatever he wants to do.
Proud Citizen, the runner-up at the
Kentucky Derby and third at the
Preakness, drew post nine on Wednes-
day and has attracted odds of 5-1. Per-
fect Drift, third at the Kentucky Derby
but absent from the Preakness, drew
post six and odds of 8-1.
It made very little difference
whether he [Perfect Drift] was inside or
outside, trainer Murray Johnson said.
I have no regrets on missing the Preak-
ness. Hes a three-year-old gelding and I
just wanted to space his races. Hes com-
ing into this race in great shape and
weve got a very good chance.
Lewis Keeps Cool
I MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters)
Lennox Lewis, who meets Mike Tyson
on Saturday in what is being touted as
the richest world heavyweight title fight
of all-time, feted the worlds media in
style at a Mississippi casino, then served
up a delicious response to profanity-
laced attacks aimed at him by the for-
mer champions trainers.
Soothing piano music, place settings
and a feast of sirloin and lamb served by
white-gloved waiters greeted the media
as they arrived for Lewiss training ses-
sion. The relaxed meal was followed by a
carefully orchestrated press conference,
during which Lewis happily fielded ques-
tions, before losing a game of chess to a
member of the Oakhaven School
Lennox Lewis Chess Club.
The scene was in sharp contrast to the
chaos surrounding Tysons one scheduled
meeting with the press a day earlier. Af-
ter grunting his way through a 10-minute
workout, the self-proclaimed Baddest
Man on the Planet slipped out of a side
door without uttering a single word.
Tyson left the ring to his trainers,
who directed profanity-laced barrages
at Lewis, accusing the Briton of being
a bitch and a coward.
S P O R T S W A T C H
FRANCOIS MORI/AP
Safin hitting a backhand to Grosjean in his easy three-set victory on Thursday.
Costa beating Romanias Andrei
Pavel, 76, 75, 75, two days after be-
ginning the match.
Pavel had driven hundreds of kilo-
meters to attend the birth of his son in
Germany on Wednesday, before rush-
ing back to Paris to finish the match
that the pair had started on Tuesday.
The encounter had been stopped by
poor light at 45 in the third set on
Tuesday and could not go ahead on
Wednesday because of violent storms.
Corretja, unsurprisingly, reeled off
the last three games when the pair re-
turned, after Pavel had snatched just
three hours sleep one in his car and
two on a sofa in the players lounge
following the 16-hour round trip to visit
his new-born son, Marius.
Corretja won his two previous
semi-finals, in 1998 and last year, be-
fore losing in the final to Moya and
Kuerten.
Corretja will have to put his close
friendship with Costa aside this time.
Im playing my closest friend on the
tour and the situation wont be easy for
either of us, he said.
But were both professionals. Its
not like Ill be hoping he wins because
hes my friend.
If he wants to win hell have to
fight and so will I. We will both be try-
ing 100 percent, I can promise you
that, he added.
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
DETROIT Ron Francis, one of the
few Carolina Hurricanes players who
matches the Red Wings stable of su-
perstars in Hall of Fame credentials,
scored 58 seconds into overtime as the
Hurricanes surprised the Detroit Red
Wings 32 in the Stanley Cup finals
opener Tuesday night.
We are excited, very excited, said
Jeff ONeill, who set up Francis goal and
scored the tying goal in the second pe-
riod. Weve got a lot of young guys play-
ing in the finals for the first time, so to get
the first one is good.
Tuesday was Francis first finals
game in 10 years, or since he scored the
game-winner for Pittsburgh in its Game
4 clincher against Chicago in 1992. The
goalie that night was Dominik Hasek,
now the Red Wings goalie.
We knew that, over the course of the
series, we would have to win one game in
here, Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice
said. I thought we were nervous in the
first period but that we felt more com-
fortable as the game went along.
Especially when the game went into
overtime. The Hurricanes have won
seven of eight overtime playoff games,
the most since 1993 Stanley Cup cham-
pion Montreal won 10.
I think we just play our system and
keep it simple, ONeill said of the Hur-
ricanes overtime success. Obviously, we
dont try to open up too much. We just
try to grind it out for wins, and its
worked so far.
That system is a trapping, neutral
zone-clogging 122 defense that pre-
vented odd-man Detroit breaks. What it
didnt stop was power plays, but Detroit
was only 1-of-7 with the man advantage.
You can analyze it any way you
want, but we had a chance to win it on
the power play, Red Wings coach
Scotty Bowman said. We didnt play as
well as we wanted, thats for sure.
Still, they played well enough to lead
10 and 21 on goals by Sergei Fedorov
and checking line forward Kirk Maltby,
but ONeill tied it at 2 by scoring on a
short breakaway with only 50 seconds
left in the second period.
Hasek couldnt stop the biggest shot
of the night, even as Carolina goalie Ar-
turs Irbe was turning aside 23 of 25
shots in his first cup finals game.
The Red Wings now know the series
wont last four games unless theyre
the team being swept, rather than the
one doing the sweeping.
Red Wings Clipped As
Carolina Takes 1-0 Lead
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
SAN FRANCISCO The next step
might take some time, even for Barry
Bonds. Willie Mays is still at least a sea-
son away.
After a rapid rise up the career chart
the past two years, Bonds hit his 587th
homer Wednesday, an astounding
grand slam that gave him sole posses-
sion of fourth place and sent the San
Francisco Giants to a 122 win over the
San Diego Padres.
It was a big day, especially to do it
on a grand slam, thats pretty awe-
some, especially that monumental of a
home run, Giants manager Dusty
Baker said.
Bonds moved out of a tie with Hall
of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson.
The San Francisco slugger passed 10
players on the home run list last season
and three this year.
Bonds, who set the single-season
record with 73 home runs last year, is
exactly 73 behind Mays, his godfather,
for third on the career list.
Bonds high-arching homer in the
third off Dennis Tankersley (12) hit
the bottom left side of the scoreboard
29 rows beyond the right-field wall at
Qualcomm Stadium.
In the 15 seasons that homers have
been measured there, only Mark McG-
wire has hit one farther, a 147-meter
line drive into the second deck in left-
center on July 20, 1998. The seat that
McGwires homer hit is painted white
with a red circle in the middle.
Boston 11, Detroit 0. A little more than
a year after he lost his job as Bostons
closer, Derek Lowe seems certain to re-
turn to the All-Star game. Lowe won
his AL-leading ninth game Wednesday
night, allowing just two infield singles as
the Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers.
Lowe, born in Dearborn, Michigan,
pitched just six innings in the rain before
a crowd of 15,537 at Comerica Park.
I had about 30 friends and family
here, he said. Im sure everyone saw
them. Because with the weather, there
were only about 45 people here, and
they were all friends and family of
someone in the game.
Last season, Lowe blew two saves in
April, compiling a 14 record. This
April, Lowe no-hit Tampa Bay. With
the All-Star game a month away, Lowe,
an All-Star reliever in 2000, has an
ERA of 1.81, lowest in the AL.
We have a lot of confidence when
Derek is out there, Johnny Damon
said. Once we get a run for him, we
know he will do the job.
In other games, it was: Atlanta 6,
New York Mets 4; Arizona 5, Houston
4 in 13 innings; Colorado 8, Los Ange-
les 6; Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 1 in
10 innings; Florida 2, Philadelphia 1;
and Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 1; Baltimore
4, New York Yankees 3; Cleveland 6,
Minnesota 4; Tampa Bay 8, Toronto 6;
Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City 1;
Seattle 5, Oakland 0; and Anaheim 7,
Texas 5 in 10 innings.
Mays Is Next for Bonds After 587th Homer
that we had in the last series, Bryant
said. It carried over to start the game.
Then, we kind of let it die down.
The popular belief was that the
Nets, so potent at the beginning of their
games against Boston in the Eastern
Conference finals, would do it again.
This time, the opposite took place.
I give my guys a lot of credit be-
cause we could have folded the tent and
went back to the arena and waited for
Game 2, Kidd said. We got our feet
wet, so hopefully we can work on the
start of the game.
Like his teammates, Kidd got off to a
slow start with four points, one rebound
and two assists in the first quarter. He
finished with 23 points, 10 rebounds and
10 assists for the 14th triple-double in
NBA Finals history and the first since
Charles Barkley of Phoenix in 1993.
When we had to pick it up, we did,
ONeal said. We just have to maintain
our composure and keep it going, keep
fighting. We know what it takes to win.
This game was sort of a feeling-out
game. Were a little disappointed in
ourselves, but the first game is out of
the way and Im sure the second one
will be better.
New Jersey closed within four points
when rookie Jason Collins made two free
throws with 2:26 remaining, and the Nets
got the ball back on Derek Fishers
turnover. But Kidd missed a three-
pointer and Keith Van Horn stepped out
of bounds as he was shooting a three.
Two free throws by ONeal and a
basket by Rick Fox off a feed from
Bryant made it 9587 with 1:11 to play.
The Nets were outrebounded 3119
in the first half and made only 7-of-16
free throws in the first three quarters.
They shot 8-of-10 from the line in the fi-
nal period.
I think the guys were probably a lit-
tle nervous, Scott said. The last time
we were nervous was the first game of
the playoffs against Indiana.
Fox added 14 points and Fisher had
13 for the Lakers, who trailed only once
at 20. Van Horn scored 12 points
and Todd MacCulloch had 10 points
and eight rebounds for the Nets.
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PARIS Second seed Marat Safin
swept aside Frances Sebastien Gros-
jean, 63, 62, 62, to reach his first
French Open semifinal on Thursday.
The Russian outclassed his 10th-
seeded opponent throughout the 1:43-
long match.
For Safin, a former world No. 1 and
1999 U.S. Open champion, the omens
look good.
He is the only player to reach the
quarterfinals of the last four grand
slams and has recorded progressively
better finishes.
A quarter-final at Wimbledon was
followed by a semifinal spot at the U.S.
Open and a runner-up finish at the Aus-
tralian Open earlier this year.
Safin next faces Spains Juan Carlos
Ferrero for a place in Sundays final, af-
ter the Spaniard downed Andre Agassi,
6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.
Agassi ran out of French Open
magic, as Ferrero held off his dogged
efforts to reach the Roland Garros
semi-finals.
Agassi had pulled a soggy rabbit
from his hat in the last round, using a
rain-delay to come back from the
dead against French player Paul-
Henri Mathieu.
But in the quarter-finals not even
the rain could save him as he suc-
cumbed to the Spaniard.
It is easy to be disappointed
whenever you lose, Agassi said wist-
fully after the game.
But I still look towards the future
as holding more opportunities for
me, he added.
Yes, it gets more and more difficult
but I still like my game, the 32-year-
old added.
Ferrero is the third Spaniard to ad-
vance to the semi-finals of the clay-
court grand slam, joining Alex Corretja
and Albert Costa.
The last time three Spaniards
reached the last four here was in 1998
when Corretja was joined by Felix
Mantilla and eventual champion Car-
los Moya.
The atrocious weather blighting
Paris had come to Agassis aid on
Wednesday, when he was called off
court for the last time, trailing Ferrero a
set and one-love in drizzle and fading
daylight.
But, even after a nights sleep and a
courageous claycourt fight, there was
nothing the 1999 champion could do
to prevent Ferrero from completing
the victory and reaching his third
semi-final in three visits to the French
grand slam.
In 2000 and 2001, Ferrero lost in the
semis to eventual champion Gustavo
Kuerten, but, with the Brazilian out of
the way this year, Ferrero must like his
chances of going one stage further.
Whoever I play, Marat or Se-
bastien, it will be tough, thats for sure,
he said.
But every year you get a bit more
relaxed here and approach your game
in a better way. You handle stress better
and get less nervous.
In the top half of the draw, Cor-
retja eventually booked his clash with
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Grosjean
To Make
Semifinals
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
YOKOHAMA, Japan Frances
World Cup hopes were left dangling by
a thread after a 0-0 draw with Uruguay
on Thursday.
Senegal, Frances conqueror in the
opening game, showed that last weeks
win was no fluke, by tying Denmark.
Wednesday also saw a huge shock,
with the United States the worst
team at the 1998 tournament upset-
ting Portugal ranked No. 5 in the
world 3-2. Russia also opened its ac-
count with an easy, if unconvincing, 2-0
win over Tunisia.
Forced to play a player down for 65
minutes, after Thierry Henry was
ejected, France came close to scoring
several times at Busan, South Korea.
But, without injured star Zinedine
Zidane, it couldnt solve goalkeeper
Fabian Carini, and now must beat Den-
mark on Tuesday or else go home.
The game was the first scoreless tie
in this World Cup.
Senegal tied the Danes 11, but
outplayed them for much of the game
in Daegu, South Korea. The Africans
finished with 10 players after Salif
Diao was ejected for a hard tackle that
brought his second yellow card of the
game.
Senegal fell behind, when Jon Dahl
Tomasson converted a penalty kick in
the 16th minute for his third goal of the
World Cup. But the Africans wore
done the Danish defense, penetrating
often before a brilliant play led to
Diaos goal.
Henri Camara took possession
deep in the Senegal end in the 52nd
minute. The final of a series of passes
went from Khalilou Fadiga to Diao,
who slid between two defenders and
used the outside of his right foot to
beat goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen for
the goal.
Senegal needs only a tie in its final
group game against
Uruguay to advance to
the second round in its
first World Cup.
The players had a
great match and it was a big achieve-
ment, coach Bruno Metsu said. In the
second half they showed all their talent
and teamwork. Its a big victory for
Africa.
Another African team also won
Thursday. Cameroon edged Saudi Ara-
bia 10 at Saitama, Japan, making the
Saudis the first team eliminated from
the tournament.
However, the Saudis
performed more profes-
sionally Thursday than
in an 80 loss to Ger-
many. The only goal was scored by
Samuel Etoo in the 65th minute as he
sidestepped two defenders. If Came-
roon beats Germany on Tuesday, it will
advance.
Only Senegals 10 opening victory
against France matched the United
States 32 win over Portugal in the first
round for shock value.
The Americans quickly turned their
focus to the future on Thursday, just
hours after their biggest World Cup win
since beating England in 1950.
We got to enjoy it last night and
now its back to business, said Brian
McBride, who scored the winner
against Portugal on a powerful header.
The U.S. scored in the fourth
minute, led 30 by the 36th and held on
for a stunning victory over Portugal in
the opener for both teams.
We came out quick, said McBride.
They are a very good team, so we put
the pressure on them. We took advan-
tage of our chances and when they
came on strong, we held them off.
The Americans were without offen-
sive standouts Claudio Reyna and Clint
Mathis, who were both injured.
But, from the beginning at Suwon,
South Korea, the United States team
was the aggressor.
With John OBriens early goal, it
had already matched its scoring total in
1998, when it lost all three first-round
games, bickering all the way.
It didnt stop producing after
OBrien left-footed in a rebound from
close range.
In the 29th minute, a shot by Lan-
don Donovan deflected in off a Por-
tuguese defender.
Then McBride converted a cross
from Tony Sanneh, and even the Amer-
icans were marveling at their lead.
Portugal quickly got one back, then
got a second-half own goal when de-
fender Jeff Agoos deflected a cross past
goalkeeper Brad Friedel
Ireland grabbed some attention, too,
with its last-minute goal for a 11 tie
with Germany.
The Germans seemed set to be the
first team to advance to the second
round, but Robbie Keane knocked
home a backheaded pass from Niall
Quinn following a long pass from
Steve Finnan.
Im extremely angry and disap-
pointed. When youre 10 up with one
minute to go and concede a goal, it
hurts, said German coach Rudi
Voeller.
Russia beat Tunisia 20 at Kobe,
Japan, getting goals five minutes apart
by Egor Titov and Valery Karpin, the
second on a penalty kick.
Russia was unconvincing in the
first half, and almost fell behind on a
defensive mixup before halftime.
However, the introduction of
Dmitry Sychyov early in the second
half injected some much-needed
speed into the attack.
Sychyov claimed an assist on the
first goal and was felled for the
penalty.
France on the Edge, but Senegal on a Roll
DAVID LONGSTRETH/AP
Frances Henry (r) being led off the field after being sent off in Thursdays game.
ADREES LATIF/REUTERS
The Lakers ONeal powering for a basket in the win over the Nets on Wednesday.
By John Nadel
THE AS S OCI ATED PRES S
LOS ANGELES For the Los Ange-
les Lakers, old hands at the NBA Fi-
nals, the electrifying tension just wasnt
there. This might as well have been an-
other home game in January.
But, with Shaquille ONeal under
the basket, all was right with the two-
time defending champions, who beat
the New Jersey Nets 9994 in the
opener of the best-of-seven series.
In a town built on entertainment,
there was little drama to be found
Wednesday night, even when the Nets
rallied from a 23-point deficit to make
things close.
It seems like a regular-season game
just going through the motions,
Lakers guard Brian Shaw said.
ONeal finished with 36 points, 16
rebounds and four blocks.
What adjustments can we make?
asked New Jerseys Lucious Harris,
seemingly at a loss at how to stop
ONeal.
Youre talking about the most
dominant player on this planet, added
Nets star Jason Kidd.
In the last period, ONeal had 14
points and nine rebounds and was 8-of-
16 from the line. He hit 12-of-21 free
throws for the game.
The Nets twice got as close as three
points in the fourth quarter. Such a fin-
ish didnt seem likely when the Lakers
rolled to a 15-point lead in the first eight
minutes and extended it to 4219 with
seven minutes left in the half.
The fast start surprised their coach.
I thought we were real vulnerable,
knowing the kind of energy we expended
in that last series, Phil Jackson said. I
got them revved up for the first quarter,
but we kind of let up on the gas.
The Nets outscored the Lakers 7557
to finish the game, but it wasnt enough.
Kobe Bryant, who scored a quiet 22
points, saw the game the same way as
Jackson. We came out, started the game
with the intensity and the type of focus
Lakers Are Starting To Find
Finals A Little Bit Too Easy
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Mavra Stravinskys one-act opera, based on
Pushkins The Little House in Kolomna, about
a plot by two lovers to live under the same roof
without the womans mother noticing. Rimsky-
Korsakov Conservatory Theater
theater
Zoikas Apartment Yury Aksyonov
directs Mikhail Bulgakovs comedy about a
woman who turns her flat into a brothel during
the NEP period. Akimov Comedy Theater
Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater:
Kremlin, Come to Me! Nikolai Polkov directs
Alexei Kazantsevs play about how a
successful television personalitys outlook on
life changes after accidentally deceiving her
husband. Bolshoi Drama Theater
Love to Your Dying Day Igor Vladimirov
directs Aldo Nikolais ironic comedy about the
meaning of love. Lensoviet Theater
Dead Souls Vlad Furman directs Sergei
Russkin, Nikolai Dik and Alexei Feyukin in an
adaptation of Gogols novel. Staged in memory
of Arkady Raikin. Mironov Theater
Cries From Odessa Semyon Spivak directs
his students from the Academy of Theater
Arts in this adaptation of Isaac Babels play
Sunset. Molodyozhny Theater
A Confession of Love A Lev Rakhlin
production, using popular music from
Bernstein to Andrew Lloyd Webber to Brazilian
bocca beat. Music Hall
PREMIERE! Oedipus Rex Sophocles
tragedy, updated for the 21st century, about
the Theban king who kills his father and
marries his mother. Andrei Prikotenko directs.
Theater on Liteiny
THEATRICAL ISLAND: Gallery of the Dying
Line of Shadow Theater (Mexico City, Mexico)
performs a variation on themes from plays by
Samuel Beckett. Jorge Varas directs.
Vasilievsky Ostrov Theater of Satire

ballet
Don Quixote, or the Fantasies of a
Madman The Boris Eifman Ballet Theater
performs a lively, modern version of Don
Quixote, entwining classical variations and
contemporary steps with simple, yet effective,
sets. Alexandriinsky Theater, 8 p.m.
concert
St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Academic Symphony Orchestra Ilya Ioff
(violin). German conductor Christian Ewald
directs a program of works by Beethoven,
Dvorak and Sibelius. Shostakovich
Philharmonic
opera
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS: The
Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the
Maid Fevronia Rimksy-Korsakovs fanciful
opera about the lost city of Kitezh, staged by
Dmitry Chernyakov. Winner of two Golden
Masks in 2002. Valery Gergiev conducts.
Mariinsky Theater, 6 p.m.
theater
Ladies and Hussars Zazerkalye Theater
director Alexander Petrov directs Alexandre
Fredreaus Romantic-era comedy as a musical.
Music by Igor Rogalev. Akimov Comedy
Theater
Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater:
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performed ballet, Adolphe Adams tale of a
peasant woman deceived in love by a young
aristocrat. Hermitage Theater
Giselle The St. Petersburg State Academic
Ballet Theater performs Adolphe Adams
tragic ballet. Zazerkalye Theater, 7:30 p.m.
concert
Capella Symphony Orchestra Swiss
conductor Mark Sikes conducts a program of
works by Bizet, Verdi and Dvorak. Capella
Soloists of St. Petersburg Mikhail
Gantvarg (violin) directs a program of works
by Vivaldi, Mozart and Samuel Barber. Glinka
Philharmonic
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS: Olga
Borodina A rare chance to hear one of the
Mariinskys best-known soloists in concert in
St. Petersburg. Mezzo-soprano Borodina, with
the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, directed by
Valery Gergiev, performs arias from operas by
Russian composers. Mariinsky Theater
St. Petersburg Male-Voice Choir
Vladimir Afanasyev conducts a program of
religious music. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Peter
and Paul Fortress
Viva Italia Lyubov Kazarnovskaya (mezzo-
soprano). Francesco Grollo (tenor, Italy).
Enrico Stinkelli (tenor, Italy). Alexander
Kantorov directs the soloists and the Classica
Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from
Puccinis La Boheme and neapolitan songs.
Shostakovich Philharmonic
opera
Die Fledermaus Stanislav Gaudasinsky
directs Strauss operetta about a neglected
wifes clever plan to regain the attention of her
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St. Petersburg artist Valery Usov with one of his paintings at the Master Class festival, which opened at
the Manezh on Thursday and runs through July 18. Usov is taking part in the festival for the eighth time.
Johnny Dowd, the U.S. country-blues
singer who plays at Red Club on Sat-
urday, is much anticipated on the local
music scene. His work has been com-
pared to Captain Beefheart, Tom
Waits and David Lynchs films noir,
while there is also talk about his re-
markable authenticity.
The 54-year-old Dowd started
quite late he bought his first guitar
at 30 and released his first album
when he was 49.
His dark songs deal with death,
murder and love gone awry, and evoke
a wide range of emotions from
laughter to horror. Funny, scary, and
ultimately, highly entertaining, goes
one review. Sick, twisted and gen-
uinely horrifying, goes another.
However, the Texas-born, New
York-based Dowd who has spent
the last 20 years or so as a furniture
mover, singer and band leader, ac-
cording to his autobiography says
that he does not quite live up to pub-
lic expectations.
People have been disappointed
that Im not a mass murderer or some-
thing, he said to The Irish Times last
year. Id be a more interesting person
if Id killed a few people.
In concert, Dowd, who sings and
plays electric guitar, will be backed by
vocalist Kim Sherwood-Caso a for-
mer hair-salon owner and a rhythm
section.
Dowds most recent, third album,
Temporary Shelter, was released on
the Koch label last year. Examples of
Dowds songs can be found at
www.johnnydowd.com.
Also this week, the three-day Nu-
Jazz Festival will start at the par.spb
club on Friday.
Nu-Jazz is a style that blends jazz,
funk, electronic dance music and free
improvization. Nu-Jazz is to [tradi-
tional] jazz what punk or grunge was
to rock, according to www.jazzre-
view.com. It makes jazz fun again.
The festival features live acts and
DJs, and is headlined by the Nathan
Haines Band. Haines is a New Zealan-
der, who made a stir in his home coun-
try with his innovative band, Jazz Com-
mittee, but is now
based in London and
records with the likes
of drum n bass pio-
neer Goldie and the
Metalheadz crew.
Other live acts
include Estonias
Holmes, Moscows Moscow Groove
Institute and Second-Hand Band and
St. Petersburgs own Doo Bop Sound.
Staying with jazz, the Jazz Boat is a
local jazz tradition, where musicians
and jazz enthusiasts rent a boat and go
down the Neva River pumping out
jazz classics. The tradition began in
1967 and is still kept alive by Kvadrat
Russias oldest surviving jazz club,
dating from 1964 and its founder
and director Natan Leites.
Strangely, such jazz activities were
tolerated by Soviet authorities, except
for one famous occasion, when Leites
attempted to organize a boat ride with
visiting musicians from the University
of North Texas, which was stopped by
the KGB in 1976.
This years Jazz Boat will feature
two stages the upper deck is re-
served for the traditional Alexei Ka-
nunnikov Jazz Band, while the lower
deck will be hosting contemporary
jazz, as performed by Andrei Kon-
dakov, Mikhail Uncle Misha Cher-
nov, Ivan Vasilyev, Nikolai Sizov, Vik-
tor Matveyev and Maxim Nekrasov.
The boat leaves at 3 p.m. on June 12
from outside the State Hermitage Mu-
seum. Tickets cost 200 rubles ($6.45),
and are available from the citys the-
ater-ticket kiosks. For more informa-
tion call 315-9046 or 153-4020.
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The arrival of summer gives St. Peters-
burg a chance to dust off the cobwebs,
get out into the open air and en-
joy the better weather.
This year, another festival is
adding to the growing list of out-
door events being held. Theater
Under the Open Sky has taken
over the beach under the Alex-
eyevsky Ravelin of the Peter and
Paul Fortress. Two stages have been cre-
ated: One is large and formally con-
structed, while the other is a square area
demarcated on the sand, bordered on
two sides by the walls of the fortress and
on two sides by rows of tiered seating.
According to Irina Blinova of the
City Museum Fund, which is organizing
the festival, Theater Under the Open
Sky aims to unite all the artistic collec-
tives on one stage.
The festival also tries to push bound-
aries. This is the first time that we have
put on such a festival, and we wanted to
show what kind of performance is possi-
ble in an open air theater, says Blinova.
The companies that are coming to
the festival cover a range of different
areas. On Tuesday, Pskovs Pushkin
Drama Theater performed a historical
epic based on the subjugation of Pskov
and Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible. The
following day, the Mr. Pezhos Traveling
Puppet Theater took over the beach
with an array of grotesque costumes.
According to the City Museum
Funds schedule, upcoming shows in-
clude a spiritual orchestra, and a little
comedy theater. The fund says that, be-
cause the companies invited are free to
perform whatever they want, it is not
possible to say in advance what will be
playing on any one day, beyond the name
of the theater company performing.
Regardless of the quality of the per-
formances the Pskov company, for ex-
ample, was fun, but not hugely original
the festival provides an agreeable way
to pass an evening. Performances begin
at 9 p.m. and last about 1 1/2 hours, so
there is plenty of time both to get there
and still catch the subway afterward.
The panorama along the Neva River
provides a spectacular backdrop for the
festival, and watching the sun set over
the fortress is a real pleasure, but there
are a couple of practical aspects to note.
The first is that, due to being shadowed
by the fortress walls, it can get quite
chilly as the evening wears on. Secondly,
the seating is of a solid wooden variety,
so it may be advisable to take a cushion.
Theater Under the Open Sky runs
through August 31. Call 232-4298 or
232-6919 for details.
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by Sergey Chernov
S TAFF WRI TER
Although local band Bondzinsky has
been toting its hard-edged blend of alter-
native rock for almost 10 years
now, its forthcoming album, ten-
tatively titled Rumba, will be
only the second disc it has re-
leased, and the first in four years.
The group is also an infre-
quent performer on the citys club scene.
Its concert next Wednesday at Moloko
is just its second live outing this year.
As well as Rumba, the band is
considering releasing a live album,
recorded on its tour of the Netherlands
in 2000. Also in the works is a fully in-
strumental album, which will possibly
be released under a different name.
According to one of the bands two
founding members, drummer Igor
Mosin, its new songs are in an ironic vein,
similar to its old club hit Give Us
Money, Get Some Rock and Roll. The
new albums title song follows the
progress of a drunk staggering home in
such a way that passers-by assume he is
dancing a rumba. They have silly lyrics,
with our particular sense of humor, he
says. We dont feel the urge to writing
messianic or poetic lyrics now.
The band hopes to release the album
in September, but, for now, there are no
serious plans. Mosin, who works as a DJ
on Radio Baltika, says that he does not
want to follow usual music business rules.
I meet bands who do commercial music
and bring it [to the station], says Mosin.
They say, Weve recorded five songs,
but this one is planned for release in
September, and that one for December.
This artificiality is madly irritating. Thats
why we take things as they come.
Bondzinsky has changed its lineup a
number of times, going through a dozen
guitarists and vocalists, with the bands
founders, Mosin and bassist Dmitry
Petrov, as the only constant members.
However, in the past two years it has
stabilized as a quartet, with vocalist Oleg
Boiko and guitarist Andrei Gradovich
augmenting the founding duo. Saxo-
phonist and clarinetist Sergei Yanevsky
also appears, as a guest musician.
Gradovich, who is also the guitarist in
arty pop act Kolibri, played in the semi-
nal 1990s guitar-based trio Jugendstil,
and was invited to join Bodzinsky in
2000, when the band had problems with
its then-guitarist but had to go to Holland
for a series of non-profit gigs in squats.
Unlike past lineups, this lineup will
probably never change, says Mosin.
Bondzinsky will most likely die com-
pletely or remain in its current state.
The bands debut album, Lobovoi
Mainstream (Frontal Mainstream),
was recorded with a different singer,
Andrei Mashnin of Mashninband, and
released only on tape in 1998. The orig-
inal copies have long since sold out.
Understanding that the bands musi-
cal style will probably never bring in a
decent profit, its members also all have
day jobs: While Mosin has been spin-
ning discs at Radio Baltika for over 10
years, Petrov is a window-dresser at a
sports store, Boiko sells CDs at the
Soyuz record shop and Gradovich is a
bartender at hip club Fish Fabrique.
With rare concerts and no recordings
available, Mosin admits that the band
has difficulty in keeping a consistent fol-
lowing. We dont have any specific au-
dience now, he says. Friends and
friends of friends hear [about the show]
through the grapevine and come, as well
as people who heard us long ago and
come out of curiosity.
Mosin also says that there is no radio
station or music press that reflects the
kind of music that bands like Bon-
dzinsky play. I know a good club band
which brings me demos [to play on the
radio] and I say, Why do you do this? It
would be better to give them out to
friends and play clubs, he says.
After all, we are not Zemfira, who
is a talented girl, with a well-adjusted
lineup of bar musicians but we all get
along well [in the band] and it would be
ridiculous to change anything.
According to Mosin, the popular al-
ternative band Tequilajazzz, which he
describes as an heroic phenomenon,
is something of an exception to the
mainstream-only rule, although he adds
that its popularity owes much to its pro-
motion by a Moscow label, as well as
two or three hit songs.
I dont think any other country has
such uniformity as Russia, except proba-
bly China, says Mosin. When I tell my
14-year-old son, Do you know that real
punks dont watch MTV?, he is very sur-
prised. [Russian teenagers] think that the
cream of music is on MTV.
Without having any grand objective,
the members of Bondzinsky just keep
doing what they enjoy playing in a
band. We have no illusions, says
Mosin. We do it just because we want
to, with nobody hurrying anybody.
Wednesdays concert will be the last
time that the band plays its current set,
before it moves on to newer songs when
the new album is finally released.
Bondzinsky at Moloko, next Wednesday
at 7 p.m. Links: www. bondzinsky.spb.ru
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rub., Fri.-Sun. 100 rub. 36a Ulitsa Mira. M: Petrogradskaya.
No phone yet, but interested parties can call Caravan at 110-
6536 for information.
Planeta Internet The official club of Internet-provider
PeterLink is based around pop, rock and blues, though
theyve added some techno recently. Two bars, a video
screen and, of course, an Internet caf . Daily, 12 p.m.-11
p.m. (Fri.-Sat., 12 p.m.-5 a.m.) Live shows start at 9:30 p.m.
50 rub. when a band is playing. 3 Ul. Chapayeva. M:
Gorkovskaya. 238-7472, 238-7418. www.planeta-
internet.spb.ru
Poligon Heavier sounds, from hardcore punk to thrash
metal, with lots of teenagers in grubby leather until re-
cently, but now the direction seems to have changed in fa-
vor of more mainstream rock. Billiards. The worst toilet in
the city. Once in, you wont be able to leave the place if
only to go home. Concerts start at 6 p.m. See Gigs for
events. 40-100 rub. 65 Lesnoi Pr. M: Lesnaya. 245-2720.
www.polygonclub.spb.ru
Popugai Opened in late January, this is the city's first
reggae bar. With occasional live concerts, Bob Marley's
hits as background music and a name that means "Parrot,"
this club offers a mix of international cuisines and a wide
choice of beer at prices from 40 to 100 rubles per half liter.
Daily, 12 p.m.-12 a.m. Free entrance. 1 Fonarny Pereulok, M:
Sennaya Ploshchad. Tel. 311-5971.
Psycho Pub With an unlikely location right off Nevsky,
Psycho is a small bar with live alternative music. Aimed pri-
marily at students (both local and foreign), the place
started with psychobilly and hardcore punk acts, but after
the first 12 months broadened its repertoire, incorporating
a wide range of styles from pop/rock to experimental. Now
it has been redesigned as a cross between a saloon and
a tavern, as the owners put it. The stage has been moved
to the second floor and replaced by a beer bar. Daily, 3
p.m.-5 a.m. Live concerts, Wed.-Sun., 9 p.m.-12 a.m. 40 rub.
23 Nab. Fontanki. M: Gostiny Dvor.
Red Club One of the newest additions to the citys club
scene, opened in September in a former horse-fodder
warehouse behind the Moscow Station. With two stages,
cheap drinks and daily concerts (with night shows by ma-
jor acts added on Fridays and Saturdays) it looks like the
place will soon be able to recoup the considerable amount
of money that was poured into opening it. It may run the
risk of becoming another Saigon. Daily, 12 p.m.-6 a.m. 50-
100 rubles (free before 6 p.m.). Concerts daily, 8 p.m. (Fri.-
Sat., also 11 p.m.) 7 Poltavskaya Ul., M: Ploshchad Vossta-
niya, 277-1366. www.redclubonline.com
pop/dance
Aquatoria Huge entertainment complex with bowling,
billiards and disco. Sea-theme interior, Eurodance, lip-
synching pop stars, male and female striptease shows.
Tues.-Sun., 10 p.m-6 a.m. Live shows start at 12:30 or 1:30
a.m. Men 200 rub., women 150 (weekdays), men 300.,
women 200 (weekends and holidays), even more on special
occasions. 61 Vyborskaya Nab. M: Lesnaya. 245-2030, 118-
3518. www.aquatoria.ru
Chaplin Club On the scene since Apr. 1997, the club
was formed by the clown group Litsedei, being the rem-
nants of Slava Polunins once-famous collective. The
clowns and comedians fill most of the schedule. Daily 12
p.m.-11 p.m. 80-300 rub. cover when live bands or clowns
are performing. Seating capacity is limited to 48; reservations
recommended. 59 Ul. Tchaikovskogo. M: Chernyvshevskaya.
272-6649. www.chaplin.spb.ru
Havana Smart Cuban theme club with live bands and
three dance floors playing Latino, house and pop. Restu-
rant, chill-out room, pool, and free popcorn for all. Daily un-
til 6 a.m. 30-60 rub. Free on Wed. for real Latinos with
passports, 75 rub. Fri.-Sat. 21 Moskovsky Prospect, M:
Tekhnologichesky Institut. 259-1155.
Hollywood Nites The once-intimidating original home
of the New Russian royalty has become a lot less elitist and
more accessible in recent years. The wealthy but largely re-
laxed crowd is there mainly for the constant cycle of shows
usually lip-sync pop and strip shows, with occasional
MTV stars playing late concerts after stadium shows to
beef up their wallets. Pleasant but pricey diner/bar down-
stairs. Weds.-Sun. 11 p.m.-6 a.m. 46 Nevsky Pr., 311-6077.
www.hollywood.ru
Marstall Usually packed with googgle-eyed foreigners
(whose passports get them in for free), Marstall runs a
dazzling array of stripshows, with the most athletic dancers
and the most creative costumes in town. Bar and restau-
rant. Open daily from 12 p.m. to 6 a.m. Stripshows start at 11
p.m. 5 Kanal Griboyedova. M: Nevsky Prospect. 315-7607.
Metro Someone has spent a great deal of money on
Metro and the results, while hardly intimate, have been a
great success. Now Metro comes with a fully functioning
third floor containing a relaxing saloon-bar and yet another
dance floor, enabling it to accomodate even more well-off
local teenagers. Chewing gum is forbidden. Open daily 10
p.m.-6 a.m. 66-250 rub. 174 Ligovsky Pr. 166-0204. www.
metroclub.ru
Monroe Sex-oriented Marilyn Monroe theme club. The
interior features faux-Greek frescoes depicting naked men,
minotaurs cavorting with teenage boys and women play-
ing penis-flutes. Bar, a dance floor playing unimaginative
house and pop, Japanese chill-out room with incense and
soft porn, booths with erotic channels for individual relax-
ation and very strange toilets. Daily 1 p.m.- 11 p.m., 25 rub
until 6 p.m., 50 rubs afterwards. 8 Kanal Griboyedova, M.
Nevsky Prospect. 312-1331. www.metroclub.ru/monro.html
National Hunt Eurodance dominates this roomy hunt-
ing-lodge-style(ish) club. In contrast to its early days, the
ladies of easy virtue have been sent packing. The strip
show is still in evidence, however, including male strippers
on Tuesdays and Fridays. Open daily, 12 p.m.-6 a.m., 50-
100 rub., free for foreigners. 11 Malaya Morskaya Ulitsa.
311-1343.
Ostrov Glitzy joint where those with silly amounts of
money and couture clothing are always welcome. Rotating
dance floors, good shows, fashionable and relatively
friendly crowd. Caf and chill-out room. Fri.-Sun. 9 p.m.-6
a.m., 300 rub., 37 Nab. Leytenanta Shmidta. M: Vasileostro-
vskaya. 328-4857.
Khrapkoff Khrapkoff hosts a contemporary dance
school for most of the day, but turns into a club with live
music at nights. Though Latin styles dominate, swing, jive
and funk are also represented. The management claims
that clubbers here will not encounter the vulgarity common
to many local clubs. Milonga (Argentine tango) parties Sun.,
10 p.m. Live concerts followed by dance parties, Fri.-Sat., 10
p.m.-6 a.m. Bar opens daily, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. (weekdays), 10
p.m.-6 a.m. (Fri.-Sat.). Free entrance until 9 p.m. After 9 p.m.:
50-100 rub. Concerts start at 10 p.m. 12 Mytninskaya Ul. M:
Ploshchad Vosstaniya. Tel. : 274-4368
Kvadrat The latest location for the jazz club with a
long history. Launched way back in 1964 as one of the first
jazz clubs in the country, it was the underground center of
Russian jazz for decades. Mostly younger musicians fill the
stage and auditorium, which holds 40. Mainstream jazz.
Mon., Sat., 8 p.m.-10:45 p.m. 30 rub. 83 Bolshoi Prospect .
M: Vasileostrovskaya. 315-9046, 322-2404. www.jazz.nm.ru.
Neo Jazz Club What the restaurant Mukha Tsoko-
tukha (opposite the Mukhina Art College) turns into at
night. Neat design, though the place has still yet to find its
own atmosphere. Specializes in mellow jazz styles, with
duos and trios performing for the most part, usually with-
out a drummer. Capacity: 35-40 seats. Armenian and Euro-
pean cuisine. Daily, 9 a.m.-12 a.m. 50 rub. cover after 8 p.m.
14 Solyanoi Per. 273-3830.
Palitra Art Caf Yet another medium-priced art caf
with live jazz and blues, less frequently some rock and
country. Photo and art exhibitions. Music program is basi-
cally equivalent to Jimi Hendrix Blues Club, Neo Jazz Club
and Sunduk Art caf. Open daily, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Con-
certs daily start at 9 p.m. 30 rubles cover when a band is
playing. 5 Malaya Morskaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospect. 312-
3435.
Sunduk Art Caf Another small place with a pleasant
atmosphere and live music. Though it used to feature
restaurant musicians and Soviet pop songs, lately it has
featured mostly jazz, blues and some rock. Open daily, 10
a.m. to 11:30 p.m. 30 rubles cover charge from 8:30 p.m. 42
Furshtatskaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya. 272-3100.
house, techno etc.
Griboyedov Located in a bomb shelter and oper-
ated by the band Dva Samaliota, this club is generally full
and cool, with a good habit of booking alternative bands to
mix with its standard rave and techno. This is one of the
best in the city. Wednesday is disco night. Daily, 5 p.m.-6
a.m. 60-80 rub. Free between 5 p.m and 8 p.m. 2A
Voronezhskaya Ul. M: Ligovsky Pr. 164-4355.
www.mfiles.spb.ru/griboedov
Mama Decadent house-party feel, featuring some of
the best techno in St. Petersburg. Drumnbass/jungle, vis-
iting and resident DJs. Very young crowd, so if youre over
20 you may feel out of place. Fri.-Sat., 11:50 p.m.-6 a.m., 60
rub. 3B Mal. Monetnaya Ul.. M: Gorkovskaya. 232-3137.
Par.sbp New house club opened in Nov. Officially,
it is a club extension of the International Cultural Center,
located on the same premises. Exhibitions are planned
alongside techno parties. For events see gigs. 100-150 rub.
5B Alexandrovsky Park. M: Gorkovskaya. 233-3374,
2380970. www.icc.sp.ru
PORT Intended to blow the competition away when it
first opened, with a great layout and loads of space. Needs
to be full, otherwise its emptiness is overwhelming. Origi-
nally for the progressive crowd, now it attracts all kinds, in-
cluding suburban kids and thugs in shell suits. Techno and
pop, plus a billiards room. Daily 3 p.m.-6 a.m. Techno par-
ties with resident DJs at 10 p.m. Fri.-Sat. For special events
see gigs. 40-300 rub. 2 Per. Antonenko. M: Sennaya Pl. 314-
2609. www.clubport.spb.ru
Tunnel The pioneering techno hangout has recently
reappered, after a five-year hiatus, in its former location
a bunker. Now it specializes in all kinds of electronic dance
music. Two dance floors, chillout room. Military stylings. Fri.,
Sat., 12 a.m to 6 a.m. 150-300 rub. Corner of Lyubansky
Pereulok and Zverinskaya Ulitsa. M: Gorkovskaya. Tel.: 233-
4015. www.tunnelclub.ru
La Plage This beach-theme nightclub opened last
March at the same venue where the notorious Candyman
had been until December 1999. Mostly Eurodance, but
some trendier pop and, on occassion, rock sounds make
their presence felt as well. Two levels, two bars, restaurant.
Thurs.-Sun., 10 p.m.-6 a.m. 80-380 rub. Free entrance for
girls wearing bikinis. Students get 50-percent discount at the
door on Thurs. and Sun. 17 Prospect Kosygina. M: Ladozh-
skaya. 525-6313. www.laplage.ru
Plaza The newest rival to Hollywood Nites and La Plage,
Plaza opened the nightclub/restaurant in a 19th-century
building on the Strelka in August 2000. The clientele ar-
rives in jeeps to see Moscow pop stars. Restaurant open
daily from 9 p.m. until last client leaves. Club program, Tues.-
Sun., 10 p.m.-6 a.m. 300-600 rub. (seat at a table 700-1,000
rub.) 2 Nab. Makarova. M:Nevsky Prospect/Sportivnaya.
323-9090.
Tribunal Often packed, playing the better Russian pop,
a bit of rock and a fair amount of classic mainstream, with
an all-pervading tequila theme. Good beer-and-munchies
place, with a nice interior, but on the pricy side. 12 p.m.-6
a.m. Free entrance. 1 Pl. Dekabristov. 311-1690
jazz & blues
(812) Jazz Club The latest addition to St. Petersburgs
jazz scene, (812) hosts mainstream, funk, and inevitably
Latin. Concerts are followed by jam sessions. Conve-
niently located next to the Petrogradskaya metro station.
Daily 8 p.m. until last person leaves. Concerts start at 8 p.m.,
with jam sessions following at 10:30 p.m. 100 rubles. 98 Bol-
shoi Prospect (Petrograd side). Enter from the yard. M: Pet-
rogradskaya. 346-1631.
Blues Billiard Blues bar, billiards and gambling ma-
chines. The repertoire is lovingly compiled by ex-Akvarium
guitarist Alexander Lyapin, who often performs there him-
self. Strip shows, Thursday, 9 p.m.-11 p.m. Daily, 10 p.m.-7
a.m. Free entrance. Live blues concerts start at 9 p.m.
(Thurs.-Sun.) 48 Ulitsa Professora Popova. M: Petrograd-
skaya. 234-4448.
Jazz & Phrenia This jazz club/restaurant is located on
the right bank of the Neva, quite a way from downtown.
Capable to hold up to 70 people, the club has a dance
floor, billiards and pool (three tables). Daily, 8 p.m. until
the last visitor leaves. Concerts start at 9 p.m. 29 Pr.
Udarnikov. Bus or marshrutka taxi from Metro Ladozh-
skaya. 529-0529.
Jazz Philharmonic Hall Staid, state-sponsored
jazz venue, intended by its founder, local jazz patriarch
David Goloshchokin, to be Russia's answer to New
York's seminal Blue Note. Mostly mainstream and Dix-
ieland repertoire, with the occasional drop of blues.
Home of the annual White Nights Swing jazz festival. See
Gigs for concerts. 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. 100-120 rub. Tickets
in advance at box-office, 2 p.m.-8 p.m. 27 Zagorodny Pr.
M: Vladimirskaya/ Dostoevskaya. 164-8565. www.jazz-
hall.spb.ru.
Jazz & Phrenia Opened in December, this jazz
club/restaurant is located on the right bank of the Neva,
quite a way from downtown. Capable of holding up to 70
people, the club has a dance floor, billiards and pool (three
tables). Daily, 8 p.m. until the last visitor leaves. Concerts
start at 9 p.m. 29 Pr. Udarnikov. Bus or marshrutka taxi from
Metro Ladozhskaya. 529-0529.
JFC Jazz Club Probably the most innovative and
progressive jazz venue in town. Less formal atmosphere,
with all styles up to avant-garde and improv. Classic and
folk concerts occasionally. The latest addition is Ethno
World, a monthly concert of world music. Mostly jazz
crowd and expats. Bar and snacks. Daily from 7 p.m., 60-
100 rub. 33 Shpalernaya Ul. M: Chernyshevskaya. 272-9850.
www.jfc.sp.ru
Jimi Hendrix Blues Club What was once the Armenian
caf Shagane (and Armenian cuisine is still available)
now offers live blues, rock and jazz concerts, with videos
from the likes of Eric Clapton and Blue Cheer in between.
Open 24 hours. Concerts start at 7:30 p.m. 50-70 run. 33
Liteiny Pr., 279-8813.
gay
Club 69 The premier local gay venue is not an "or-
thodox gay club any more, but rather a "free peoples
club," according to its owner. Though keeping some of its
trademark features including the show 69 now also
hosts parties with DJs and live concerts. The venue has a
popular restaurant, busy dance floor, two bars and the in-
famous dark room. Lesbians are welcome on Wednesdays.
Wed.-Sun., 10 p.m.-6 a.m. 50 rub. (weekdays), 100 rub.
(weekends). 6 2-aya Krasnoarmeiskaya. M: Tekhnologich-
esky Institut. Tel.: 259-5163. www.club69.ru
Greshniki The decor suggests that Greshniki (Sinners)
is more of an S&M joint, with chains hanging across the
spiral staircase and a curious medieval castle interior. The
bar staff are dressed as either demons or fallen angels and
the strippers in leather. Spread over four floors, Greshnki
caters to the lower end of the gay market and much of
whats on offer here is in imitation of 69. Daily, 6 p.m-6 a.m.,
free-70 rub. (men), 100-200 rub. (women), 29 Kanal Gri-
boyedova. M: Gostiny Dvor. 318-4291. www.greshniki.gay.ru
Jungle The citys oldest surviving gay club aptly re-
calls Soviet-era deprivation in both heating, decor and
service. What it lacks in sophistication it makes up for in
friendliness and a sense of the bizarre. Plenty of fun if
you like Russian pop, cheap drinks and plenty of young
men keen to make friends with your wallet . Fri.-Sat., 11
p.m.-6 a.m. Shows start at 2 a.m. Men, 50 rub., women, 80
rub. 8 Ul. Blokhina, M: Sportivnaya. 238-8033. www.gay.
ru/jungle/
Mono This tiny and unremarkable little club is friendly
and smart. With a bar, minute stage for cabaret and what
must be the smallest dance floor in the city lined with seat-
ing for 40 or so (50 rub. a table during show time), the
overall impression is that they are expecting a crowd of
gnomes. Intimacy guaranteed, private dancers available
(200 rub.), helpful staff. Daily, 10 p.m.-6 a.m. 20-50 rub.
(men), 50-100 rub. (women). 4 Kolomenskaya Ul., M: Ligov-
sky Prospect. 164-3678.
rock, etc.
City Club Located above the rockabilly bar Money
Honey, with a more mature crowd, ages ranging between
20 and 40, the club specializes in pop/rock, blues, reggae
and Latin. Hot food, three bars, pool and Russian billiards,
plus real fireplaces but nasty security. Live shows Mon.-
Sun. at 8.20 p.m. and on Fri.-Sat. also at 1 a.m., 60 rub. 28-
30 Sadovaya Ul., Apraksin Dvor, Korpus 13. M: Gostiny Dvor.
Entrance through Money Honey. 310-0549. www.money-
honey.org/cityclub/
Corsar Large college-like underground, cavernous pub
which features frequent live concerts and a pool table.
Rockabilly, blues, rock and roll. Sun.-Tues. 1 p.m.-12 a.m.
Wed.-Sat. 1 p.m.-4 a.m. 40-50 rub. when a band is playing.
14 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. M: Nevsky Prospect. 219-4184.
Cynic A grungy student hangout that opened in Feb.
2001 near the Moscow Station and stole some of Fish Fab-
riques clientele. Oriented toward the Bohemian crowd and
foreign tourists, once in a while Cynic features semi-spon-
taneous live performances, despite having no stage. Usu-
ally packed at nights. Sun.-Thurs., 10 a.m. to 3 a.m., Fri.-Sat.,
open 10 a.m. to 7 a.m. 4 Goncharnaya Ul. M: Ploshchad
Vosstaniya. 277-5164. www.cynic.spb.ru
Dostoevsky Art Bar Long, narrow room with two lines of
tables, a bar and a small stage. Eclectic crowd of managers
and foreign tourists. Mostly cover bands playing rock, blues,
and Latin, often too loud to talk. Daily, 12 p.m.-1 a.m. (Fri.-Sat.,
12 p.m.-3 a.m.) Bands play daily, 8 p.m.-11 p.m., a second set
(11 p.m.-2 a.m.) is added on Fri. Fri.-Sat. 70 rub. from 7 p.m. 15
Vladimirsky Pr. M: Dostoeyevskaya/Vladimirskaya. 310-6164.
Faculty Opened in cooperation with St. Petersburg State
University last year, Faculty claims to be oriented towards
students, offering discounts and even free entrance if you
have the proper documents. Lots of space, slow barmen,
arrogant management. Usually too loud and messy to ap-
preciate the music played by both obscure rock acts and
the city's favorites such as Markscheider Kunst, Tequilajazz
and Kirpichi. Live concerts, disco nights, "hangover par-
ties." Besides drinks, the bars offer dictionaries, which can
be used in the venue if needed. Daily, 12 p.m.-6 a.m. See
Gigs for events. 50-100 rub. (after 9 p.m.) Face control. 6 Pr.
Dobrolyubova. M: Sportivnaya/Gorkovskaya.233-0672.
www.fakultet.sp.ru
Fish Fabrique Despite the spartan interiors and
menu, this place is still a favorite for local rock musicians
and alternative artists, with the bonuses of table hockey
and underground films. Daily 3 p.m. until the last person
leaves. Live gigs start at 10:30 p.m., film program at Sun. 8
p.m. 50 rub. 10 Pushkinskaya Ul. (entrance through the arch
at 53 Ligovsky Pr.). 164-4857. www.fishfabrique.spb.ru
Friday Also known as Pyatnitsa, the club, which opened
last year, now divides its time between rock concerts, elec-
tronic-music festivals and parties with DJs. Fri.-Sat., 11
p.m.-6 a.m. Occasional live concerts, 6 p.m.-10 p.m. (when
announced.) 80-150 rub. 10-12 Moskovsky Pr. M: Sennaya
Ploshchad. 310-2317.
Front The underground club is located in a bomb
shelter (just like Griboyedov) and features live rock and
pop/rock bands, with the repertoire similar to those of Fish
Fabrique and Moloko. No techno! Daily 7 p.m.- 6 a.m. Live
concerts, Tues.-Fri., 8:30 p.m. 50 rub. cover when bands are
performing. 31 Ul. Chernyakhovskogo (watch for a bunker in
the yard). M: Ligovsky Prospect. www.front.vov.ru
Liverpool None-too-cheap theme bar based on the
mop-top legends, with photos and other paraphernalia
hanging everywhere, and videos of the Beatles playing
constantly. Live bands such as ZaRok, Ticket Too or Back
Up perform Beatles covers and 1960s/70s hits at night.
Daily, 11 .a.m-2 a.m. (Fri.-Sat. 11 p.m.-5 a.m.) Live concerts,
8 p.m.-11 p.m. (three sets.) Free entrance. 16 Ul.
Mayakovskaya. 279-2054. www.liverpool.ru
Manhattan/Kotyol Art club with bar, billiard room and
very strangely organized toilets. Originally intended for the
underground art elite, it has since changed management
and direction a number of times. Live concerts start at 10
p.m., except Fri.-Sat. (11 p.m.) Daily 2 p.m.-5 a.m., 60-100
rub. after 9 p.m. 90 Nab. Fontanki. 113-1945. www.kotel.
spb.ru
Moloko Probably the best underground rock club
in town, where Tequilajazzz, Spitfire and Markscheider
Kunst like to perform. Often compared to the seminal,
now-defunct TaMtAm Club, Moloko has won a solid repu-
tation among acts and student audiences, which are its
mainstay. Wed.-Sun. 7 p.m.-12 a.m. 60-80 rub. 12 Perekup-
noi Pereulok. M: Pl. Alexandra Nevskogo/Pl. Vosstaniya. 274-
9467. http://moloko.piter.net
Money Honey The citys first and premier rockabilly bar
complete with a confederate flag and Elvis and Marilyn
posters. Usually packed with a rowdy crowd of tech stu-
dents and leather-clad teddyboys. Alas, coat check can
only handle half the crowd. Bar open from 11 a.m. Shows
daily at 8 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., 40 rub. 28-30 Sadovaya Ul., 14
Apraksin Dvor. M: Gostiny Dvor. 310-0549. www.money-
honey.org
Orlandina A new art-rock club located is in the same
building that the Pereval club occupied in 1995-97. The
place has been completely renovated and redesigned by
the artist Nikolai Kopeikin, who works with the art-rock
band NOM-Zhir. The club belongs to the owners of the
popular Caravan and Rock Podval record shops, as well as
the Caravan Records label. The capacity is between 100
and 150 people. Nightly concerts at 7 p.m. Mon.-Thurs. 50
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The Red Lion
Enjoy an exciting and unforgettable
adventure day or night at the first
authentic English Pub in St.
Petersburg. Come and join the fun in
the beautiful surroundings of
Alexandrovsky Park. Experience the
genuine atmosphere you have been
looking for, Traditional English Pub
Food, and satisfy your thirst with
more than 30 kinds of beer. Every
Monday you can listen to live music
starting at 20.00. Tuesday all ladies
enjoy three hours of Unlimited Free
Champagne from 19.30 until 22.30
as well as live country music at 20.00
and disco music from 23.00. On
Wednesday and Thursday enjoy
our live house band from 20.00, and,
if youre brave enough, try your voice
in our Thursday Karaoke
Competition starting at 20.00. Then,
if youre still standing, put on your
dancing shoes. Every Friday and
Saturday, theres live music at 20.00
and Super Disco Music from 23.00
until 5.00. Draft beer 34 rubles. Great
food, big menu, affordable prices.
All-day breakfast. And, as always,
superior service.
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week,
365 days a year, we never close.
4 Alexandrovsky Park.
Tel.: 233-9391.
M: Gorkovskaya, next to Baltiisky Dom
Theater.

Kameya
Set in the historic city center close to
the Summer Garden, the Kameya Cafe
is delighted to reopen its doors to
visitors after a major refurbishment.
Escape from the bustle of the city, and
enjoy great food at affordable prices.
We cater for parties of up to 65 people
($15 per person). Business lunches
available daily from noon until 4 p.m.
for 60 or 85 rubles. Every Thursday
from 8 p.m. live music from Lotos
group. Open daily from noon until 11
p.m. 32 Gagarinskaya Ul. Tel.: 272-6066
Mezzanine Cafe
Salads, sandwiches and delicious
cakes. More than 20 types of coffee.
Open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
In the Grand Hotel Europe. 329-6000.
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Give your next event a touch of
excellence with our five-star catering
services. Banquets, buffets and full
event planning. Corinthia Nevskij Palace.
Tel.: 380-2001. Fax: 380-1937. $$$
Tandoor Restaurant
We provide small to medium outdoor
catering services for parties and banquet
functions. Reasonable prices. 2 Vozne-
sensky Prospect. Tel.: 312-3886. $$-$$$

James Cook pub & cafe
COFFEE TO THE LEFT, BEER TO THE
RIGHT!
Welcome to enjoy the real coffee and
a great beer at one place at a stylish
pub and cozy coffee house. 14 kinds
of beer on draught, 30 kinds of coffee,
25 kinds of elite tea. Own
confectionery. Business lunch from
12:30 to 5:00 p.m. French breakfast
from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Live
music Thu.-Sat.
Credit cards accepted. Open daily 9.00
a.m. till the last guest leaves (coffee
house), 12.00 till the last guest leaves
(pub). 2 Shvedsky Pereulok (at the
end of Malaya Konyushennaya Ul.)
Tel. 312-3200 (free reservations!)
Ontrome
We invite you to visit the Ontrome chain
of French confectionary shops to try a
tasty dessert, made from heavenly
sponge cake, rich whipped cream, fruits
and berries, nuts and chocolate with
these basic ingredients turned into a
small miracle through the art of a master!
And our miracles arent only small, as
Ontromes pastry chefs can also
prepare to order cakes of all shapes
and sizes. 58 Nab. Kanala Griboyedova.
Tel.: 310-7339. Mon. to Wed.: 10 a.m. to
8 p.m., Thu. to Sat.:10 a.m. 9 p.m., Sun.
10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
36 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel.: 315-
5030. Mon. to Wed.: 10 am. to 9 p.m.,
Thur., Fri. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sat. 11
a.m. to 10 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
New Location! 3 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 311-
8286. Mon. to Sun. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
www.aktivist.ru
Adamant discount cards accepted.
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Crocodile Whiskey Bar
More than 25 kinds of whiskey
(Scotch, Irish, American, Canadian).
Friendly atmosphere and excellent
European cuisine at the lowest price
you can get. Expats most welcome.
Modern photography exhibitions.
Chess and backgammon. Crocodiles
are all over the interior, but our
bartenders are pleasant and alert.
Daily 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. All credit
cards accepted. 18 Galernaya Ul. (near
St. Isaacs Square). Tel.: 314-9437.
Plaza
The Plaza Restaurant is located in the
historic center of the city, in the most
picturesque part of St. Petersburg.
Sitting in our dining room you can
admire the beautiful view of the Peter
and Paul Fortress and the Rostral
Columns. European cuisine. Wide list
of wines from around the world. We
happily organize special events,
banquets, parties and business
lunches. Special offer: Disco dances,
the best music of 80s and 90s evety
Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m.
The Plaza is open 24 hours. Convenient
parking. Vasilievsky Island, 2 Nab.
Makarova. Tel.: 323-9090.
Valhall
Valhall is a unique cabaret restaurant
on Nevsky Prospect. There are four
halls at your service: Sea Hall, Royal
Hall, Iggdrasil and Show Hall. There
are torches on the walls, the seats are
covered with animal pelts, and the bar
looks like the front part of an ancient
ship. The hustle and bustle of a great
city remains outside the door. At
Valhall, you are in a 19th-century
atmosphere. Pork ribs are smoked for
you, and Valhalls cellars full of
exquisite wines and other drinks for
those who like something more
strong are waiting for you.
NEW: Our experienced cook will cook
you succulent meat, fish or poultry
shashliks over a charcoal stove. The
pop-opera Three little pigs an
appetizing, hot main course, prepared
from songs and dances to a variety-
show recipe and spiced with strong
jokes plays in Valhalls Show Hall.
The disco can be your desert. Outside
catering. Breakfast from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. 80 rubles. (4 different menus).
Lunch from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 180
rubles. (4 different menus, including
vegetarian). Dinner from 6 p.m. from
450 rubles. 22/24 Nevsky Pr. (opposite
Kazan Cathedral). Open from 10 a.m.
to 3 a.m. (or until the last guest
leaves). Phone for table and ticket
reservations at 311-0024. Adamant
discount cards and credit cards
accepted.
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La Cucaracha
La Cucaracha - Delivery. For the
first time in St. Petersburg, free
delivery anywhere in the city in just 40
minutes. Original Mexican
cuisine at your office, home or party.
11 a.m. to midnight. Tel. 222-1212.
La Cucaracha - Take Away.
Mexican cuisine to take away in
five minutes. 62-64 Sverdlovskaya
Nab.
Call-a-Pizza. Genuine Italian
pizza delivered free anywhere in
the city in 35 minutes. Special
discounts for offices. Tel. 227-3571.
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Tschaika
Seven kinds of German beer. Live music
daily. Authentic German cuisine. Open
daily 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Some credit cards
accepted. 14 Kanal Griboyedova.
M: Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 312-4631.
E-mail: tschaika@mail.wplus.net
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Aquarel
St. Petersbirgs first fusion-cuisine
restaurant. Exclusive menu from a
French chef. Two levels. The second
level - fusion-restaurant; the third
level - grill and bar. Exclusive deserts.
Club-style jazz music. DJs on Fridays
and Saturdays. The best panoramic
views in the city. Petrograd Side, near
Birzhevoi Bridge. Tel.: 320-8600
(Malaya Neva area).
Dvorianskoye Gnezdo
(Noble Nest)
The citys top restaurant, located in
the Trianon of the Yusupov Palace.
Excellent cuisine combined with
impeccable service and a wide range
of exceptional wines. Live music
from 8 p.m.
Open 7 days a week from 12 p.m. to
12 a.m. Reservations recommended.
Call 312-3205 or 312-0911 to
reserve. 21 Ulitsa Dekabristov
(near the Mariinsky Theater)
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Magrib
Restaurant, night club, cafe.
Oriental, European, Japanese cuisine.
The only Moroccan night club with
exquisite cuisine. Every weekend -
famous DJs, fashion shows, cozy
atmosphere. You can also enjoy a light
snack in our cafe, which is open 24
hours. Address: 84 Nevsky Pr., (across
from the Nevskij Palace Hotel). Club is
open 10 p.m.-6 a.m. every day, cafe - 24
hours, restaurant 12 p.m.- 6 a.m. Tel.:
275-7620. English-speaking staff
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La Strada Restaurant
Italian Restaurant-Pizzeria under a
crystal cupola. Unique interior in the
style of a small Italian street with a
Florentine balcony. Salad bar and
homemade pasta. Pizza prepared
right before your eyes. Open daily
noon to 11 p.m. 27 Bolshaya
Konnushennaya Ul. Tel.: 312-4700
Rossis
Italian and Mediterranean cuisine.
Live lobster and trout in our aquarium.
Open 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. In the Grand
Hotel Europe. Tel.: 329-6000. $$$
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Planet Sushi
Planet Sushi belongs to a chain of
traditional Japanese restaurants. It is
popular and well-known for its
reasonable prices, great choice and
good quality of food and drinks! Our
chefs and servers serve you the best
food and dining at our restaurant is
most pleasant and enjoyable! We are
open daily from noon to midnight. Our
special Lunch Bentos are available
until 5 p.m. on weekday. We accept
major credit cards!
94 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 275-7533.
Shogun
The well-known Japanese restaurant
Shogun invites you to the opening of
our new SUSHI BAR on Moskovsky
Prospect in addition to its popular bar
on Gorokhovaya and the eponymous
restaurant on Vosstaniya. Our skillful
chef prepares SUSHI, SASHIMI and
other Japanese delicacies while you
watch (we only use ecologically clean
water). You will be delighted by our
interior, which represents the spirit of
the Land of the Rising Sun. Indulging
in traditional sake and plum wine will
help you understand the secret of the
health and lifespan of the Japanese
people. New take-out service. Sushi
bar from $7. Business lunch from
$15 (noon 6 p.m.) 11 Gorokhovaya
Ul. Tel.: 314-7417. 26 Ul. Vosstaniya.
Tel.: 275-3297. 140 Moskovsky Pr. Tel.:
327-0199
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Grand Caf Koreana
Welcome to the new grand caf. We
offer authentic South-Korean cuisine
and also sushi. Ten percent lunch
discount valid until 3 p.m. Wedding
parties and banquets welcome (free
karaoke for parties). 25 Ligovsky Pr.
Tel.: 277-0213.

Tequila-Boom
Now you dont need to go to Mexico
to try Mexican cuisine. You can find
it at Tequila-Boom! Tequila-Boom
belongs to a chain of cantinas in
Mexico City, Acapulco, Cancun, Los
Angeles and now here in St.
Petersburg! It is the only cantina
here run by Mexican chefs. You can
enjoy all kinds of seafood, meat
delicacies, many varieties of
Mexican tequila, wonderful prawn
cocktails, and traditional dishes
made to recipes such as Carnitas,
Alambre, Fajitas, Quesadillas and
many others. Live folk music, Latin-
American dancing.
Daily, 12 p.m. until the last guest
leaves. Parking. English, Spanish-
speaking staff. Credit cards accepted.
57/127 Voznesensky Pr., corner of
Voznesensky and Fontanka.To reserve
a table or book a banquet, call 310-
1534.
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Demidov restaurant
Want to live history today? Take a
break from the hassles of modern
life with a memorable dining
experience at Demidov Restaurant.
From classic Russian cuisine to
antique interiors and gypsy music,
Demidov creates the ambiance of
Russia from centuries ago. We also
cater for parties and banquets, and
serve business lunch weekdays until
5 p.m. for 300 rubles. 50-percent
discount on alcohol with the
purchase of a business lunch. Gala
dinner 600 rubles. 30% discount on
alcohol with gala dinners. For a
quick snack, visit our cafe for home-
style Georgian cooking. Open from
noon until the last guest leaves,
major credit cards accepted.
14 Nab. Fontanki, Tel.: 272-9181.
http://www.demidov.spb.ru
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Kalif Restaurant
Beautifully designed oriental
Restaurant. Extensive menu. Daily folk
music and belly dancing. Live music
daily except Tuesday and Wednesday.
Three minutes walk from the
Hermitage. Open daily noon to
midnight. VISA, Mastercard, Union.
21 Millionnaya Ul. Tel.: 312-2265
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Chippolino Pizzeria
A variety of homemade Italian pizzas.
Twelve types of pizza, salads, pasta.
The best choice of Italian wine in the
city. Open daily noon to 2 a.m. All
major credit cards accepted. Truly
Italian know-how!
43/1 Lermontovsky Pr. (Sovetskaya
Hotel, 13th floor)
Call 329-0327 for reservations. $$
Patio Pizza
Patio Pizza restaurants are a small
piece of sunny Italy right here in St.
Petersburg. All-you-can-eat business
lunch on weekdays from noon until
4:00 p.m. for 195 rubles. Enjoy our
unlimited salad bar with 25 types of
salad for 185 rubles. From June 1
new menu. We accept American
Express, MasterCard, Visa, Diners
Club, JCB, and Maestro.
Visit us at the following locations:
182 Nevsky Prospect, Tel.: 271-3177.
30 Nevsky Prospect, Tel.: 314-8215

Admiralty Restaurant
Traditional Russian cuisine in a stylish
maritime setting. Live entertainment.
Tuesday to Saturday from 6 p.m.
57 Nevsky Pr., 2nd floor,
Corinthia Nevskij Palace.
Tel.: 380-2001, fax: 380-1937.
Count Suvorov
A fine-dining restaurant, located in
the historical center of St. Petersburg
in one of the wings of Vorontsovsky
Palace right on the corner of Gostiny
and Apraksin Dvor.
Excellent Russian cuisine
Unique dishes from the Court of
Her Imperial Majesty
First-class service
The best musicians in the city
Dancing.
Daily from noon until the last guest
leaves. All credit cards accepted.
6 Ul. Lomonosova/26 Sadovaya Ul.
Tel.: 315-4328.
Rasputin Restaurant-Bar
Authentic Russian cuisine served in
traditional Russian dishes. Stylish
interior. Show of Russian beauties
from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., Tuesday to
Saturday. This place has a
professional level of cooking
(Kommersant, 30.03.2002). Business
lunches daily from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
for 180 rubles.
Daily from 12 p.m. until the last guest
leaves. Tel.: 277-3141, 277-0256.
Near Moskva Hotel and Alexandro-
Nevskaya Lavra. M: Ploshchad
Alexandra Nevskogo.
St. Petersburg
A Russian restaurant in authentic
Petersburg style located in one of the
most beautiful places in not only our
city, but also in all world, opposite the
Church of the Savior on the Spilled
Blood. Business lunch daily from noon
until 5 p.m. A great wine list and
irreproachable service. Live music and
dancing beginning at 8 p.m. The new
program of a renowned Russia-style
variety show starting at 9 p.m.
Call 314-4947 to reserve a table.
5 Kanal Griboyedova.

Pagoda Mot Kot
A new theme restaurant featuring
original Vietnamese cuisine from the
Chan Service Group. Upon entering
the restaurant, youll be greeted with
the banging of a gong, just like when
entering a real Buddhist temple
(pagoda). There are three main halls,
individual dining cabins, a waterfall, a
goldfish pool, handmade furniture,
and a bamboo hut. Everything was
made with you in mind. The pleasant
and romantic atmosphere, European
comfort, oriental hospitality and exotic
taste of delicious cuisine will make
your visit an unforgetable one.
Welcome to sunny Vietnam right in St.
Petersburg. The restaurant is open
from noon until the last customer.
Credit cards are accepted. 10%
discount on all dishes until 5 p.m. on
weekdays. Live music daily from 7:30
p.m. Tel.: 273-0184, 275-1446.
www.pagoda.ru 50 Ul. Chaikovskogo.
M. Chernyshevskaya. Opposite the
Finnish Consulate

Chteau Club
Wine Salon and Grand-Cafe located in
the historic center of St. Petersburg.
The saloon interior is decorated with
refined works by sculptors, smiths,
engravers and artists. The wine list of
Grand-Cafe features the finest examples
from the Wine Salons selection, which
comprises 600 brands of drink from all over
the world. There is a lunch menu, which is
very simple to select from and is not
expensive, and a refined dinner menu. Life
saxophone and accordion music every
Friday and Saturday. All major credit cards
accepted. Open daily, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The
wine in the cafe is sold at wholesale
prices, without a restaurant mark-up.
Chteau Club Grand-Cafe and wine
salon: 8 Malaya Morskaya Ul.
Tel.: 312-6097. Chteau Club - wine
Salon: 6/8 Bolshoi Pr., Petrograd Side.
Tel.: 232-0472.
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Torres
Spanish cuisine. Very large selection of
Spanish wines. Pleasant setting. Daily live
music from 9 p.m. Flamenco dancing and
the Argentine tango on Fridays and
Saturdays from 10 p.m. Business lunch for
130 rubles on weekdays. All credit cards
accepted. Open daily noon to 5 a.m.
53 Nevsky Prospect. Tel.: 113-1453
Restaurant
THE NOBLE NEST
21 UL. DEKABRISTOV
TEL.: 312-3205,
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to have an affair with one of the secretaries of
the leader of the Opposition in a top London
hotel. However, with a conniving waiter, a
suspicious hotel manager, an alert private
detective, an angry wife, a furious husband, a
bungling secretary, an unconscious nurse and
a dead body, nothing is going to go as planned.
Nikolai Polkov directs. Bolshoi Drama Theater
Love to Your Dying Day Igor Vladimirov
directs Aldo Nikolais ironic comedy about the
meaning of love. Lensoviet Theater
A Play Without a Name Lev Dodin directs
this extraordinary production based on
Chekhovs Platonov, with a flooded stage and
exceptional staging by Alexei Porai-Koshits.
Winner of the 1997 Golden Mask award. Maly
Drama Theater Theater of Europe
Oh, What a Beautiful Game That Was!
Rudolf Furmans tribute to actors, designers,
directors and everyone else involved with what
he sees as the most transitory art form the
theater. Mironov Theater
Kasatka Semyon Spivak stages Alexei
Tolstoys romantic comedy set in 1916 St.
Petersburg. Molodyozhny Theater
The Venetian Woman Mikhail Gruzdov
stages a 16th-century erotic drama by an
unknown author. Priyut Komedianta Theater
PREMIERE! The Overcoat A fantasy by
Alexander Obraztsov, based on Gogols story
about the life and death of a hapless St.
Petersburg clerk. Directed by Oleg Kulikov.
Theater on Liteiny, Foyer
THEATRICAL ISLAND: My Sister Eve
Vladimir Koifman directs the Amsterdam
Chamber Theater in an emotional dialogue,
based on works by Sasha Sokolov and
Genrikh Stein, about the existence of ones
inner child. Vasilievsky Ostrov Theater of
Satire

ballet
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS: Swan
Lake Tchaikovskys romantic classic,
distinguished by the Mariinsky Theaters
spectacular corps de ballet. Mariinsky Theater
Giselle The State Academic Ballet Theater
performs Adolphe Adams classic about the
tragic consequences of a young peasant
womans love. Zazerkalye Theater
concert
Evening of Piano Music Pavel Yegorov plays
works by Tchaikovsky Glinka Philharmonic
Evening of Piano Music Moscow pianist
Viktor Ryabchikov plays works by Russian
composers, including Glinka, Artur
Rubinshtein, Balakirev, Borodin and
Rachmaninov. Sheremetyev Palace
PALACES OF ST. PETERSBURG:
Evening of Vocal Music Dmitry
Khvorostovsky (baritone). Konstantin Orbelyan
conducts the soloist and the State Academic
Chamber Orchestra of Russia in a program of
works by Christoph Gluck, Handel, Mozart,
and Verdi, and neapolitan songs. Shostakovich
Philharmonic
Midday Canticles Eduard Krotman directs
the Smolny Cathedral Choir in a program of
religious music. Smolny Cathedral
opera
Yevgeny Onegin Stanislav Gaudasinsky
stages Tchaikovskys opera based on
Pushkins novel in verse. Mussorgsky Theater
theater
The Country Wife Tatyana Kazakova directs
English playwright William Wycherlys 1675
satire in which the hero, Horner, feigns
impotence and makes fools out of everybody
around him. Akimov Comedy Theater
Sverdlovsk Academic Drama Theater:
Out of Order A British Conservative attempts
to have an affair with one of the secretaries of
the leader of the Opposition in a top London
hotel. However, with a conniving waiter, a
suspicious hotel manager, an alert private
detective, an angry wife, a furious husband, a
bungling secretary, an unconscious nurse and
a dead body, nothing is going to go as
planned. Nikolai Polkov directs. Bolshoi Drama
Theater
King, Queen, Knave Vladislav Pazi directs an
adaptation of Vladimir Nabokovs 1928 novel
about a love triangle. Lensoviet Theater
A Play Without a Name Lev Dodin directs
this extraordinary production based on
Chekhovs Platonov, with a flooded stage
and exceptional staging by Alexei Porai-
Koshits. Winner of the 1997 Golden Mask
award. Maly Drama Theater Theater of
Europe
Sirena and Victoria Viktor Kramer directs
Alexander Galins light comedy about whether
a friendship can exist between a science
professor and a New Russian. Mironov
Theater
Sacred Monsters Semyon Spivak directs
Jean Cocteaus play about two women who
are polar opposites. Molodyozhny Theater
St. Petersburg Crescendo A kaleidoscopic
revue of the best bits of variety shows from
around the world, including Russian folk
songs and traditional poems, Cuban carnival
numbers, Italian folk songs, gypsy romances
and blues. Music Hall
Dear, I Cant Hear What You Say When
the Water Is Running in the Bathroom
A production based on two plays by Leonid
Zorin and Robert Anderson about the
difficult relationships between
playwrights and directors. Priyut Komedianta
Theater
The Concert of Tortured Misprints
Variations on themes from Ilf and Petrovs
much-loved novels The Twelve Chairs and
The Golden Calf. Directed by Grigory Kozlov.
Theater on Liteiny
THEATRICAL ISLAND: Champagne With a
Ballerina Leonid Vladimirov directs National
Finnish Theater in Slavomir Morozheks play
about why a three-way marriage is not
necessarily the best solution. Vasilievsky Ostrov
Theater of Satire

ballet
Red Giselle The Boris Eifman Ballet
Theater performs the tragic story of Russian
ballerina Olga Spessivtseva, set to music by
Bizet, Tchaikovsky and Schnittke.
Alexandriinsky Theater, 8 p.m.
Le Corsaire Marius Petipas ballet based on
Byrons tragic poem, featuring eclectic music
by Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Richard Drigo
and Adolphe Adam. Mussorgsky Theater, 7:30
p.m.
concert
A Step Toward Mastery The final concert of
the eponymous youth music competition.
Alexander Chernushenko conducts winners
from the competition with the Capella
Symphony Orchestra. Capella
Vienna at the Beginning of the 20th
Century Ilya Gringolts (violin). Sergei
Roldugin (cello). Alexei Orlovetsky (piano). The
trio plays a program of works by Beethoven
and Schubert. Glinka Philharmonic
PALACES OF ST. PETERSBURG: New
Names Winners from the competition A Step
Toward Mastery, with the State Academic
Chamber Orchestra of Russia, conducted by
Konstantin Orbelyan, in a program of works by
Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Weber, Grieg,
Mozart, Prokofiev, Chopin and Gershwin. St.
Petersburg State University, Twelve Colleges
Building. 7/9 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya.
opera
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS:
Mazeppa Yury Alexandrovs production of
Tchaikovskys opera, based on Pushkins
historical poem Poltava, about a Ukrainian
separatist who tortures and kills his
beloveds father, driving her insane.
Mariinsky Theater
theater
A Play Without a Name Lev Dodin directs
this extraordinary production based on
Chekhovs Platonov, with a flooded stage
and exceptional staging by Alexei Porai-
Koshits. Winner of the 1997 Golden Mask
award. Maly Drama Theater Theater of
Europe
Love Letters A.R. Gurneys play about the
values of upper-middle-class WASP America,
following the correspondence between a staid,
dutiful lawyer and an unstable artist. Mironov
Theater
Like Bees in Honey Neil Flackman directs a
play about bohemian life at the end of the
20th century. Priyut Komedianta Theater
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S PECI AL TO THE S T. PETERS BURG TI MES
Opening a theme restaurant is a risky
business. Early imperfections, normally
forgiven at recently opened
joints, can ruin the whole experi-
ence, even for casual diners not
concerned with the theme. So it
was with interest and trepida-
tion that I headed down to B-
52, which opened in early April
on Ulitsa Lomonosova.
B-52 is named for the American
bomber not, unfortunately, for the
Athens, Georgia, cult band and
maintains that its interior is of a style
unique to our city but very popular in
the West, and that men entering the
restaurant will feel as though they are in
fact inside the fuselage of the bomber.
They dont specify how women will feel,
so, pushing aside fears of thematic fail-
ure, I decided to see for myself.
My companion and I entered the
dimly-lit restaurant, which, in addition
to being modeled pretty convincingly
after a fuselage, boasts five four-seater
booths made of snazzy new airplane
seats. The server, dressed as a member
of the Womens Army Corps in a
jaunty, navy-colored hat, suit, and
short, conservative heels true B-52
buffs will have to forgive the anachro-
nism of the WWII era WAC; the
bomber wasnt actually built until 1952
and appropriately chipper and
sunny, ushered us through the fuse-
lage to a booth.
Although B-52s prices are above av-
erage for a Russian eatery, it is actually
quite reasonable, given not only the siz-
able fortune that clearly went into the
place, but also the generosity of por-
tions, elegance of presentation, and
wide selection offered. My companion
and I perused the menu with delight,
reading aloud some of the dishes
names, such as Sex with a Pilot:
sausages stuffed with chicken wings and
ketchup. Drink-wise, I ordered a glass
of the house white wine for 60 rubles
($1.94) while my companion went for a
White Russian at 80 rubles ($2.59). Our
server, delighted to have customers in
the near-empty restaurant, was almost
cloying in her constant doling of helpful
advice and incredibly attentive manner.
The food was presented on shiny,
black, octagonal plates, accompanied by
matching candle holders, and all of the
glasses had shiny black stems. The black
salt and pepper shakers nestled in a
chubby, silver, aviation-themed holder,
its handle curving off suggestively into
the sky. The Stars and Stripes salad
(190 rubles, $6.13) featured small, tasty
pieces of seafood, with fresh tomatoes,
cucumbers and onion, all of which had
apparently been murdered by the may-
onnaise that both coated them and
swirled artistically around the plate. The
Home Base (120 rubles, $3.87) was a
simpler and more meager selection of
tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, onions, let-
tuce, and feta. Our joint appetizer, the T-
joint (95 rubles, $3.06) came just after
we had finished our salads and turned
out to be quite worthy of entree status
by itself, as it consisted of three giant,
omlet-like blini, liberally stuffed with
fresh ham and mushrooms, in a creamy
cheese sauce.
The main courses were both beauti-
fully presented, and in huge quantity. I
had the Dead Loop (145 rubles,
$4.68), lured by the promise of spicy
vegetables atop a steamed pike-perch
filet. This was good enough, but not
particularly to my liking, as the spicy
vegetables turned out mostly to be
chunks of bacon and a pretty aggres-
sive hard-boiled-egg garnish, supple-
mented by little shreds of carrot and
pepper in a saccharine sauce.
My companion, assured by the
server that it was the tastiest choice on
the menu, ordered the Explosive
Wave, (220 rubles, $7.10) featuring
the lockets from a beef with the finest
liver and french sauce and spoke
very highly of it. The sauce was smoky
and thick, and she enjoyed as much of
the meal as she could bring herself to
eat. We had also, somewhat foolishly,
ordered a generous portion of tasty
potato croquettes called Change of
Course (50 rubles, $1.61) thinking
that we might need a garnish.
We were stuffed and happy at the
end of the meal, and watched sheep-
ishly as our ever-smiling server took
away our half-eaten main courses. The
menu offers a bevy of after-dinner op-
tions, with a massive selection of
cigarettes, cigars, after-dinner liqueurs,
coffees, teas, and desserts. The dessert
selection was huge, and would have
been quite tempting to those who
didnt already feel like a B-52 bomber
at the end of the meal. I opted for a
cappuccino (24 rubles, about $0.77)
and my co-pilot a tea (10 rubles, $0.32).
These were lovely, as were the deli-
cious, fresh pastries (15 rubles, $ 0.48)
we ordered. After which, getting the
bill was remarkably easy, and shelling
out the cash for such a satisfying meal
even simpler.
B-52. 5 Lomonosova Ulitsa. Tel: 110-
4087. Open Sunday through Thursday,
noon to 11 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays,
noon to 1 a.m. Dinner for two with al-
cohol, 993 rubles ($32.03). Menu in
Russian and English. Credit cards will
soon be accepted.
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1. Academy of Arts Museum. Wednesday
through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 17 Univer-
sitetskaya Nab. Tel.: 213-6496.
2. Alexander Blok Apartment Museum.
Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday.
57 Ul. Dekabristov. Tel.: 113-8633.
3. Anna Akhmatova Museum at the
Fontanka House. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Monday and the last Wednesday of
every month. 34 Nab. Reki Fontanki. Tel.: 272-
2211.
Art Collegium Gallery. Monday through
Friday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. 64 Ligovsky Pr.. M:
Ligovsky Prospect. Tel.: 164-9564.
4. Art Gorod Gallery. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 47 Bolshoi
Pr., Vasilievsky Island. Tel.: 327-7527.
5. Artists Union of Russia Exhibition Center. Daily,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 38 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel.: 314-
3060.
6. Association of Free Artists Gallery at Nevsky 20.
Daily, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. 20 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 311-7777.
Borey Art Gallery. Tuesday through Saturday, 12 p.m.
to 8 p.m. 58 Liteiny Pr. M: Mayakovskaya/Ploshchad
Vosstaniya. Tel.: 273-3693.
Bread Museum. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. 73 Ligovsky Pr. M: Ligovsky Prospect. Tel.: 164-1110.
Center of Photographic Arts. Friday and Saturday, 6
p.m. to 6 a.m. 38 Malaya Monetnaya Ul. M: Gorkovskaya.
Tel.: 232-3137.
7. Central Naval Museum. Wednesday through Sunday,
10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. 4 Birzhevaya Pl. Tel.: 218-2502.
8. Chaliapin Apartment Museum. Wednesday through

1. Akimov Comedy Theater. 56 Nevsky Pr.

Tel.: 312-4555.
2. Alexandrinsky Theater. 2 Pl. Ostrovskogo.
Tel.: 110-4103.
3. Baltiisky Dom. 4 Alexandrovsky Park.
Tel.: 232-6244.
4. Bolshoi Drama Theater. 65 Nab. Fontanki.
Tel.: 310-0401.
Bolshoi Puppet Theater. 10 Nekrasova
Ul. Tel.: 273-6672
Komissarzhevskaya Drama Theater.
19 Italianskaya Ul. Tel.: 315-5355.
Lensoviet Theater. 12 Vladimirsky Pr. Tel.: 113-2191.
MalyDramaTheater. 18Ul. Rubinshteina. Tel.: 113-2028.
5. Mariinsky Theater. 1 Teatralnaya Pl. Tel.: 114-4344.
Molodyozhny Theater. 114 Nab. Fontanki. Tel.: 316-
6870.
6. Mussorgsky Theater. 1 Pl. Isskustv. Tel.: 219-1978.
Priyut Komedianta Theater. 27 Sadovaya Ul. Tel.:
311-3314.
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory Theater.
3 Teatralnaya Pl. Tel.: 312-2519.
7. St. Petersburg Opera. 33 Galernaya Ul. Tel.: 315-6769.
8. State Hermitage Theater. 34 Dvortsovaya Nab. Tel.:
311-9025.
Theater Dozhdei. 130 Nab. Fontanki. No phone.
Theater on Liteiny. 51 Liteiny Pr. Tel.: 273-5335.
Vasilievsky Ostrov Theater of Satire. 48 Sredny Pr.
Tel.: 213-6683.
9. Yusupovsky Palace. 92 Nab. Moiki. Tel.: 314-9883, 315-
6769.
ZazerkalyeTheater. 13 Rubinshteina Ul. Tel.: 164-1895.

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1. Childrens Philharmonic Hall.

1/3 Dumskaya Ul. Tel.: 219-4175.
2. Gigant Hall. 44 Kondratievsky Pr. Tel.: 540-
8130.
3. Glinka Philharmonic. 30 Nevsky Pr. Tel.:
312-4585.
4. Jazz Philharmonic Hall. 27 Zagorodny Pr.
Tel.: 164-8565.
5. Music Hall. 4 Alexandrovsky Park. Tel.: 232-6165.
6. Oktyabrsky Concert Hall. 6 Ligovsky Pr. Tel.: 275-
1273.
7. Shostakovich Philharmonic. 2 Mikhailovskaya Ul.
Tel.: 311-7333.
8. Cappella. 20 Nab. Moiki. Tel.: 314-1058.
9. Yubileiny Sports Palace. 18 Pr. Dobrolyubova, M: Sportiv-
naya, Tel.: 119-5614.
Avrora. 60 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 315-5254.
Barrikada. 15 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 315-4028.
Crystal Palace. 72 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 272-2382.
DomKino. 12 Karavannaya Ul. Tel.: 314-8036.
Khudozhestveny. 67 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 314-
0045.
Kolizei. 100 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 272-8775.
Leningrad. 4 Potemkinskaya Ul. Tel.: 272-
6513.
Mirazh. 35 Bolshoi Pr. P.S.. Tel.: 232-4838.
Molodyozhny. 12 Sadovaya Ul. Tel.: 311-0045.
Parisiana. 80 Nevsky Pr. Tel.: 273-4813.
Spartak. 8 Ul. Saltykova-Shchedrina Tel.: 272-7897.

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Sunday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Closed the last Friday of every
month. 2B Ul. Graftio. Tel.: 234-1056.
9. Dostoevsky Museum. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed
Monday. 5 Kuznechny Per., Tel.: 311-4031.
10.Engineers (Mikhailovsky) Castle. 2 Sadovaya Ul. Tel.:
210-4173.
11. Ethnographic Museum. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed
Monday. 4/1 Inzhenernaya Ul. Tel.: 210-4715.
12. Free Arts Foundation at Pushkinskaya 10. See List-
ings for opening times. 10 Pushinskaya Ul. (Entrance
from53 Ligovsky Pr.) Tel.: 164-5371.
13. Kirov Apartment Museum. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
26/28 Kamenoostrovsky Pr. Tel.: 346-0217.
14.Kunstkamera. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Thursday.
3 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel.: 328-1412.
15.Manezh Central Exhibition Hall. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. Closed Thursday. 1 St. Isaacs Square. Tel.: 314-8859.
16.Marble Palace. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 5/1 Millionaya
Ul. Tel.: 312-9196.
Masters Guild Gallery. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 82
Nevsky Pr. M: Mayakovskaya/Ploshchad Vosstaniya. Tel.:
279-0979.
17.Menshikov Palace. Daily, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Closed Monday. 15 Universitetskaya Nab. Tel.: 323-1112.
18.Military Historical Museum of Artillery and Engi-
neers. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 7 Alexandrovsky Park. Tel.:
232-0296, 238-0704.
Mitki-VKhUTEMAS Gallery. Saturday, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
16 Ul. Pravdy. M: Dostoevskaya/Vladimirskaya. No tele-
phone.
Moskovsky District Exhibition Hall. Tuesday through
Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to
6 p.m. Closed Monday. Ploshchad Chernyshevskogo. M:
Park Pobedy. Tel.: 298-3984.
19. Museumof the History of Religion. Daily, 11 a.m. to
6 p.m. Closed Wednesday. 14/5 Pochtamtskaya Ul.
Tel.: 314-5838.
20. Museumof the History of St. Petersburg. Daily, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. 3 Petropavlovskaya Krepost. Tel.: 238-4540.
21. Museumof the Political History of Russia. Daily, 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Thursday. 2/4 Ul. Kyubyshevskaya.
Tel.: 233-7052.
Museum of the Political History of Russia Annex.
Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 6 Admiralteiskaya
Nab. M: Sadovaya/Sennaya Ploshchad. Tel.: 312-2742.
Museumof Theater andMusical Arts. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m., Wednesday, 1p.m. to7p.m. ClosedTuesday. 6Pl. Ostro-
vskogo. M: Nevsky Prospect/Gostinny Dvor. Tel.: 310-1939.
22.NabokovApartment Museum. Wednesday through Sun-
day, 11 a.m. to5 p.m. 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Ul. Tel.: 315-4713.
National Center Gallery. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Closed Monday. 166 Nevsky Pr., M: Ploshchad Alexandra
Nevskogo. Tel.: 277-1216.
23. Nikolai Nekrasov Apartment Museum. 36 Liteiny
Prospect. Tel.: 272-0165.
NotaBeneArt Gallery. Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Sun-
day. 5Stremyannaya Ulitsa. M: Mayakovskaya. Tel.: 162-5992.
Printing Museum. Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Sun-
day, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, 11 a.m. to 4. p.m. Friday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday and the last Tuesday
of each month. 32/2 Nab. Reki Moiki. M.: Nevsky
Prospect/Gostinny Dvor. Tel.: 311-0270.
24. Pushkin Apartment Museum. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Tuesday. 12 Nab. Reki Moiki. Tel.: 312-1962.
25. Rumyantsev Mansion. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tues-
day, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Wednesday and the last
Tuesday of each month. 44 Angliiskaya Nab. Tel.: 314-
7544.
26. Samoilov Dynasty Apartment Museum. Wednesday
through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. 8 Stremyannaya Ul.
Tel.: 164-1130.
27.Sheremetyev Palace. Wednesday through Friday, 12
p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. 34
Nab. Reki Fontanki. Tel.: 272-4441.
28. Smolny Cathedral Exhibition Hall. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. 3/1 Ploshchad Rastrelli. Tel.: 311-3690.
28. Smolny Historical Memorial Museum. Daily, 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. by appointment, groups only. Friday 3 p.m. open
to individual visitors. Closed Saturday, Sunday. 3 Pl. Pro-
letarskoi Kultury. Tel.: 276-1461.
SPAS. Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday. 93 Nab.
Reki Moiki. M: Sadovaya/Sennaya Ploshchad. Tel.: 311-
4260.
St. Petersburg Center for Modern Art. Monday
through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 60 Nevsky Pr. M: Nevsky
Pr./Gostinny Dvor. Tel.: 219-4737.
29. State Hermitage Museum. Daily, 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.,
Sunday 10:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday. 34 Dvortso-
vaya Nab. Tel.: 311-3465.
30. State Russian Museum. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Tuesday. 4 Inzhenernaya Ul. Tel.: 219-1608.
Yelagin Palace Museum. Wednesday through Sunday,
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 1 Yelaginsky Ostrov. M: Krestovsky Os-
trov. Tel.: 430-0131.
31. Yelizarov Apartment Museum. Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Wednesday. 52/24 Ul. Lenina. Tel.: 235-3778.
opera
Rigoletto Stanislav Gaudasinksy directs
Verdis opera based on Hugos play. Andrei
Anikhanov conducts. Mussorgsky Theater
Lelisir damore Donizettis comic
masterpiece about how a travelling quack
dupes a whole village into believing that his
cheap wine is an infallible way to make
anyone they want fall in love with them.
Zazerkalye Theater
theater
The Lovers Tatyana Kazakova brings another
Carlo Goldoni musical comedy to the Akimov,
this one about how love can be a fearsome
weapon in the battle of the sexes. Akimov
Comedy Theater
Passions a la Vertinsky Rudolf Furmanov
directs Valery Degtyar and Tatyana Kabanova
in a highlight of Alexander Vertinskys work
combining theatrical methods with circus
tricks. Mironov Theater
Twelfth Night, or What You Will A modern
interpretation of Shakespeares comedy with
minimalist scenery, striking costumes and a
predilection for rowdy humor. A rare foray into
the classical repertoire by director Vladimir
Tumanov. Molodyozhny Theater
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ballet
Swan Lake The St. Petersburg Theater of
Classical Ballet performs Tchaikovskys
evergreen ballet. Alexandriinsky Theater,
7:30 p.m.
Swan Lake Tchaikovskys signature ballet
choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev
Ivanov. Mussorgsky Theater
concert
Evening of Piano Duets Vasily Ilisavsky and
Dmitry Barbshin play works by Schumann,
Schubert, Rachmaninov and Witold
Lutoslawsky. Glinka Philharmonic
PALACES OF ST. PETERSBURG:
Music of Fashion Vasily Gerello (baritone).
A gala concert to celebrate the festivals 10th
anniversary. The State Academic Chamber
Orchestra of Russia, conducted by
Konstantin Orbelyan, and the Ad Libitum
Childrens Chamber Opera Theater, with its
director, Alyona Velikotnaya, plus a display of
fashions by Lena Larionova. Marble Palace,
White Hall
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS:
Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev conducts the orchestra in a
program of works by Russian composers.
Mariinsky Theater
Soloists of St. Petersburg Mikhail Gantvarg
(violin) directs a program of works by Handel,
Rossini, Haydn, Bartok and Shostakovich.
Shostakovich Philharmonic
theater
My Little Cherry Orchard Alexei Slapovskys
nostalgic comedy, set in contemporary times
with amusing references to Chekhovs classic
play. Directed by Tatyana Kazakova. Akimov
Comedy Theater
In a Lively Place Vladimir Vetrogonovs
production of Alexander Ostrovskys play.
Lensoviet Theater
PREMIERE! The Moscow Choir A play by
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya examining the fate
of three generations of a Moscow family on
the eve of an international festival at the
start of the Khrushchev era. Igor Konyaev
directs. Maly Drama Theater Theater of
Europe
Passions a la Vertinsky Rudolf Furmanov
directs Valery Degtyar and Tatyana Kabanova
in a highlight of Alexander Vertinskys work
combining theatrical methods with circus
tricks. Mironov Theater
Tango Semyon Spivak directs Slavomir
Mrozeks once-banned political parable.
Molodyozhny Theater
These Free Butterflies Valery Filonov directs
Leonid Gershs play about the love between a
young actress and a blind man. Priyut
Komedianta Theater
Silly Girl Mikhail Levshin directs Lope de
Vegas play about two sisters, one beautiful
and poor and the other rich and average in
appearance. Theater Komedianty
Lost in the Stars Grigory Dityatkovsky directs
a play based on contemporary Israeli
playwright Hanoch Levins The Rubber
Merchants, a tragi-comic tale of a love
triangle. Theater on Liteiny

ballet
Swan Lake The St. Petersburg Theater of
Classical Ballet performs Tchaikovskys
evergreen ballet. Alexandriinsky Theater,
7:30 p.m.
Giselle Adolphe Adams tragic ballet, staged
by Nikolai Dolgushin. Rimsky-Korsakov
Conservatory Theater
Giselle The State Academic Ballet Theater
performs Adolphe Adams classic about the
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ballet
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS:
Swan Lake Tchaikovskys romantic classic,
distinguished by the Mariinsky Theaters
spectacular corps de ballet. Mariinsky
Theater
concert
Russian Vocal Classics Yelena Yaskunova
(soprano). Pyotr Migunov (bass). Sofya
Shlyanikova (piano). A program of works by
Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Capella
PALACES OF ST. PETERSBURG: Musical
Salon Krzysztof Yablonsky (piano, Poland).
Bernhard Retlisberger (clarinet,
Switzerland). Konstantin Orbelyan conducts
the soloists and the State Academic
Chamber Orchestra of Russia in a program
of works by Chopin, Mozart and Cavallini-
Bellini. Glinka Philharmonic (Engelhardt
Room)
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Academic
Symphony Orchestra Olga Kondina
(soprano). Alexander Sladkovsky conducts a
program of works by Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Tchaikovsky and Vladimir Martynov.
Shostakovich Philharmonic
theater
White Heat Swiss director Vasily Sechin
stages Eugene Ionescus comedy of the
absurd, which is at the same time a sad love-
story about a poet and his feelings. Mironov
Theater
She Stoops To Conquer, or the Mistakes
of a Night Mikhail Chernyak directs William
Goldsmiths drama about a young woman who
must put her wits and her young lover to the
test in order to win his heart. Molodyozhny
Theater
The Caretaker Yury Butusov directs Pinters
drama about the loneliness of humanity.
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ballet
Swan Lake The St. Petersburg Theater of
Classical Ballet performs Tchaikovskys
evergreen ballet. Alexandriinsky Theater,
7:30 p.m.
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS:
Sleeping Beauty A reconstruction of the
1890 premiere of the Tchaikovsky ballet,
using the origninal Marius Petipa
choreography, costumes and stage design.
Mariinsky Theater
concert
Holiday Hour of Organ Music Alexei
Semyonov plays works by Bach, Nicolaus
Bruhns, Johann Krebs, Samuel Scheidt and
Jan Sweelinck. Shostakovich Philharmonic,
3 p.m.
Evening of Serenades Alexander Kantorov
directs the Classica Symphony Orchestra in a
program of works by Haydn, Mozart,
Tchaikovsky and Elgar. Shostakovich
Philharmonic, 7 p.m.
tragic consequences of a young peasant
womans love. Zazerkalye Theater
concert
Capella Choir and Symphony
Orchestra Emiliya Titarenko (soprano).
Alexander Deminkin (tenor). Yury Bazhitov
(baritone). Vladislav Chernushenko conducts a
program of works by Haydn and Carl Orff. The
final concert before the Capella breaks for the
summer. Capella
PALACES OF ST. PETERSBURG:
Premieres in the Yards Bella Davidovich
(piano, U.S.). Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin, U.S.).
Federico Mondelci (saxophone, Italy). Alexei
Mochalov (bass). Konstantin Orbelyan
conducts the soloists and the State Academic
Chamber Orchestra of Russia in a program
including works by Shostakovich and
Mendelssohn. Hermitage Theater
St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Orchestra Alexander Shilo (double bass).
Nikolai Alexeyev conducts a program of works
by Heino Eller, Eduard Tubin and Prokofiev.
Shostakovich Philharmonic
opera
STARS OF THE WHITE NIGHTS: The
Queen of Spades Alexander Galibin stages
Tchaikovskys opera, based on Pushkins story
about German, a young soldier who seeks to
learn the secret of winning at cards from an
old countess. Mariinsky Theater
Verdis Requiem Stanislav Gaudasinsky
stages an operatic version of Verdis Requiem.
Mussorgsky Theater
theater
Life Is No Bed of Roses Grigory Nikulin
directs Alexander Ostrovskys play about the
life and love of a Moscow merchant. Akimov
Comedy Theater
The Phantom Lady Pedro Calderons 17th-
century cloak-and-dagger drama. Lensoviet
Theater
PREMIERE! The Moscow Choir A play by
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya examining the fate of
three generations of a Moscow family on the
eve of an international festival at the
beginning of the Khrushchev era. Igor
Konyaev directs. Maly Drama Theater
Theater of Europe
O Fool, I Shall Go Mad! A Rudolf Furman
production, based on texts ranging from
Shakespeare to Brecht, about the life of
Andrei Mironov, after whom the theater is
named. The title is a quote from King Lear
which held particular relevance for Mironov.
Mironov Theater
Midnight in the Epoch of the Renaissance
Semyon Spivak directs Mikhail Chernyak in a
one-person reading of a selection of French
erotic prose. Molodyozhny Theater
Like Bees in Honey Neil Flackman directs a
play about bohemian life at the end of the
20th century. Priyut Komedianta Theater
Woe From a Tender Heart Mikhail Levshin
directs Vladimir Sologubs 19th-century
vaudeville. Theater Komedianty
Lost in the Stars Grigory Dityatkovsky directs
a play based on contemporary Israeli
playwright Hanoch Levins The Rubber
Merchants, a tragi-comic tale of a love
triangle. Theater on Liteiny
gigs

rock, etc.
ReggiStan Reggae. City Club. 8:30 p.m.
Babslei Folk punk. City Club. 1 a.m.
Vnezapny Sych/Petlya Nesterova Pop/rock.
Faculty. 10 p.m.
Billys Band Tom Waits covers, original
material. Fish Fabrique. 10 p.m.
Li-Yakushev/Jam D./FG Funk, dubcore.
Front. 8 p.m.
Opasniye Sosedi Rock. Griboyedov. 10 p.m.
Garage Beat All-Nite Party Beat, rock and
roll. Manhattan. 11 p.m.
Dead Kedy/Vegetative Alternative. Moloko.
7 p.m.
The Jets Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m.
The Big Livers Rockabilly. Money Honey.
12:30 a.m.
NEP/2 Kapitana Rock. Orlandina. 7 p.m.
Red Elvises U.S.-based Russian emigre surf
band. Poligon. 6 p.m.
Oen Redish Rock. Psycho Pub. 8 p.m.
Taquirari Folk. Red Club (Second Stage).
8 p.m.
Reelroad/Mervent Folk. Red Club (Main
Stage). Midnight.
jazz & blues
Yevgeny Ponomaryov Quartet Mainstream.
(812) Jazz Club. 9 p.m.
Tatyana Tolstova and Jazz Comfort Jazz
vocal night. Jazz & Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Sergei Tatarintsev Band Fusion. Jazz
Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m.
Andrei Kondakov Band Contemporary jazz.
JFC Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
Forrest Gump Blues. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club.
8 p.m.
Natasha Rodina and Jazz Duo Mainstream.
Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Olga Ponomaryova Jazz vocal night. Palitra
Art Cafe. 9 p.m.
Yury Slavtsov, Jerry Kim and Friends Pop
flamenco. Sunduk Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
pop
Plazma Bada Boom, 113a Pr. Engelsa. M.:
Ozerki. Tel.: 510-0911. 10 p.m.
Oleg Gazmanov Gigant Hall, 44
Kondratyevsky Pr. M: Ploshchad Lenina. Tel.:
540-8130. 9 p.m.
Gosti Iz Budushchego Electronic pop.
Hollywood Nites. 1 a.m.
Radchenko Brothers Lensoviet Palace of
Culture, 42 Kamennoostrovsky Pr., M:
Petrogradskaya, Tel.: 346-0438. 7 p.m.
Strelki International Plaza. 1 a.m.
party mix
DJs Misha Pugo, Andrei Satin and Tabuko
House. Griboyedov. Midnight.
Disco All Night DJ Ayala (St. Petersburg-
Israel). Funk, disco, disco house. Planeta
Internet. 11 p.m.
NU-JAZZ FESTIVAL: Doo Bop Sound, DJs
Holmes (Estonia), Dr. Bob Jones (U.K.),
Meri (Estonia), Strong, Lovesky, Chak,
Primat and Kislovsky Par.spb. 11 p.m.
DJ Phunkee Birthday Party Tunnel.
Midnight.

rock, etc.
Solnechny Udar Pop/rock. City Club.
8:30 p.m.
Brazilia Pop/rock. City Club. 1 a.m.
Skafandr Alternative. Fish Fabrique. 10 p.m.
Kamikaze Pop/rock. Griboyedov. 10 p.m.
Nastya/Anges/Patologiya Rock. Manhattan.
11 p.m.
Animal Jazz Artcore. Moloko. 7 p.m.
The Cadillacs Rockabilly. Money Honey.
8 p.m.
The Hoox Rockabilly, jive. Money Honey.
12:30 a.m.
Doch Monroe i Kennedy/Kiparis
Alternative, indie rock. Orlandina. 7 p.m.
SMORGASBORD FESTIVAL Younger rock
bands. Psycho Pub. 8 p.m.
Billys Band Tom Waits covers, original
material. Red Club (Second Stage). 8 p.m.
Johnny Dowd (U.S.) Country blues,
rock and roll. Red Club (Main Stage).
Midnight.
jazz & blues
Olga Gubinova and Sergei Khilko Band
Mainstream. (812) Jazz Club. 9 p.m.
The Way Blues. Jazz & Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Leningrad Dixieland Band Jazz dance. Jazz
Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m.
Anna Guzikova and Igor Balakirev Pop jazz.
JFC Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
Lera and Friends Pop funk. Jimi Hendrix
Blues Club. 8 p.m.
Vadim Lebedev and Alexei Lyapko Jazz,
Braziliana. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Splash Point Blues. Palitra Art Cafe. 9 p.m.
Natasha Rodina and Jazz Duo Mainstream.
Sunduk Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
party mix
All-Night Computer Party DJ Red.
Psychedelic, Goa trance. Front. 12 a.m.
Do Re Mix DJs Tengiz, Vissardi, Khottabski,
Timidzh. Two-step, house. Griboyedov.
Midnight.
NU-JAZZ FESTIVAL: DJs Moscow Grooves
Institute (Moscow), Nathan Haines Band
(London, U.K.), DJ Ender (Helsinki,
Finland), Kfear, Strong, Yelkashu, Keet,
Primat. Par.spb. 11 p.m.
Show Planet Eurodance music, clowns, strip
show. Planeta Internet. 10 p.m.
KaZantip Forever DJs Fish-Spider (Moscow),
Lena Popova, Slon, Haas and Lovesky. Tunnel.
Midnight.

rock, etc.
Foolton Band Blues. City Club. 8:30 p.m.
Ala Ska/Katyusha Reggae, ska punk. Faculty.
8 p.m.
Barracuda/Lamento Alternative. Front. 8 p.m.
Bubentsy Semi-acoustic blues. Griboyedov.
10 p.m.
Sofora Rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m.
Ras Simeon and Tribal Roots Reggae.
Moloko. 7 p.m.
The Propellers Rockabilly. Money Honey.
8 p.m.
The Barbulators Rockabilly. Money Honey.
11:45 p.m.
Vykhod/Polyusa Rock. Orlandina. 7 p.m.
Tractor Bowling Alternative. Poligon. 6 p.m.
The Hoox Rockabilly, jive. Red Club (Second
Stage). 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Make or Break with Masha Nikolayeva
(vocals) 1930s-style swing, blues. (812) Jazz
Club. 9 p.m.
Uncle Misha and Friends Mainstream. Jazz
& Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Mikhail Kostyushkin and His Band
Saxophone night. Jazz Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m.
Lera and Shishki Acid jazz. JFC Jazz Club.
7 p.m.
Mister Fix Pop. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. 8 p.m.
Alexander Starostenko Duo Fusion. Neo
Jazz Club. 8 p.m.

circus
Magicians and Sorcerors Including the
show New Magic, hosted by Vadim Doveiko.
St. Petersburg Circus, 7 p.m.
puppets
Little Red Riding Hood A one-act
version of the fairy tale, directed by
Valentina Deryagina. Demmeni
Puppet Theater, 11 a.m.

circus
Magicians and Sorcerors
Including the show New Magic,
hosted by Vadim Doveiko. St.
Petersburg Circus, 3 p.m., 7 p.m.
puppets
The Little Fox Who Didnt Want To Be
Cunning The story of a little fox who makes
friends with a chicken and refuses to be
cunning like other foxes. Bolshoi Puppet
Theater, 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m.

circus
Magicians and Sorcerors Including the
show New Magic, hosted by Vadim
Doveiko. St. Petersburg Circus, 1 p.m., 5 p.m.
puppets
The Three Little Pigs A puppet version of
Sergei Mikhalkovs tale about three little
pigs and a wolf. Bolshoi Puppet Theater,
11.30 a.m., 2 p.m.

At the Pikes Request A puppet-theater
production based on themes from traditional
Russian folk tales. Demmeni Puppet Theater,
11 a.m.

circus
Magicians and Sorcerors Including the
show New Magic, hosted by Vadim
Doveiko. St. Petersburg Circus, 7 p.m.
puppets
At the Pikes Request A puppet-theater
production based on themes from traditional
Russian folk tales. Demmeni Puppet Theater,
11 a.m.

circus
Magicians and Sorcerors Including the
show New Magic, hosted by Vadim
Doveiko. St. Petersburg Circus, 3 p.m.
puppets
How a Cock Punished a Vixen Nikolai
Shuvalovs adaptation of this Russian folk
tale. Bolshoi Puppet Theater, 11:30 a.m.,
2 p.m.
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The Little Tower Nikolai Borovkov directs
Samuil Marshaks tale based on themes
from Russian fairy tales, about friendship
between animals living together. Demmeni
Puppet Theater, 11 a.m.

circus
Magicians and Sorcerors Including the
show New Magic, hosted by Vadim
Doveiko. St. Petersburg Circus, 7 p.m.
puppets
The Little Tower Nikolai Borovkov directs
Samuil Marshaks tale based on themes
from Russian fairy tales, about friendship
between animals living together. Demmeni
Puppet Theater, 11 a.m.

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PARIS PETERSBURG
36 B. Morskaya
Tel.: 315-5030
58 Nab. Kanala
Griboyedova
Tel.: 310-7339
3 Nevsky
Tel.: 311-8286
past r y, cakes
order, del i ver y
Blues Session Blues guitarists. Palitra Art
Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
Tanya Gromova and Jazz Duo Mainstream.
Sunduk Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
party mix
Boogie Nights DJ Kikabit-Z and guests.
Griboyedov. Midnight.
NU-JAZZ FESTIVAL: DJs Second Hand
Band (Moscow), DJ Rhythm Doctor
(London-Tallinn), Chak, Lovesky, Raf,
Sahaj. Par.spb. 11 p.m.

rock, etc.
Experimental GEZ-21 (Experimental Sound
Gallery), 10 Pushkinskaya Ul. (entrance from 53
Ligovsky Pr.), 7th floor, room 702. 8 p.m.
The Hoox Rockabilly, jive. Money Honey. 8 p.m.
Troll Gnyot Yel/Bashnya Rowan Folk, rock.
Orlandina. 7 p.m.
jazz & blues
Ildar Kazakhanov Guitar jazz night. Jazz &
Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Liapins Blues Blues rock. JFC Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
The Way Blues. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. 8 p.m.
Natalya Rodina/Jam Session Mainstream.
Kvadrat Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Angel Dust Band Funk, fusion. Neo Jazz
Club. 8 p.m.
Alexei Lyapko Pop jazz. Palitra Art Cafe. 9 p.m.
Anna Guzikova (vocals), Oleg Kuvaitsev
(alto saxophone) and Yury Kapetanaki
(keyboards) Mainstream. Sunduk Art Cafe.
8:30 p.m.
party mix
Ground Level DJs Maxim Kislovsky, Sputnik
and guests. Deep house and techno.
Griboyedov. 11 p.m.

rock, etc.
Experimental GEZ-21 (Experimental Sound
Gallery), 10 Pushkinskaya Ul. (entrance from
53 Ligovsky Pr.), 7th floor, room 702. 8 p.m.
Netslov/Caribace Ethno, dub, electronica.
Griboyedov. 10 p.m.
Lyonich Band/The Sods/Nastya Barteneva
Rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m.
Kirpichi Alternative. Moloko. 7 p.m.
Annie Fire and the Phantoms Rockabilly.
Money Honey. 8:30 p.m.
Doggy Doggy Rockabilly. Money Honey.
12:30 p.m.
Jeff Sotovarishchi/Pekh Rock. Orlandina.
7 p.m.
S.O.K. Reggae. Red Club (Second Stage). 8 p.m.
Tres Muchachos Afro-Carribean. Red Club
(Main Stage). Midnight.
jazz & blues
Arrigo Cappelletti and Modern Jazz Trio
(Italy) Jazz standards. (812) Jazz Club.
9 p.m.
Sergei Grigoryev Jazz & Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Vladimir Lytkin Band with Larisa
Samsonova (vocals) Mainstream. Jazz
Philharmonic Hall (Ellington Hall). 8 p.m.
Mikhail Kostyushkin Band Contemporary
jazz. JFC Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
Ines & S.B.A. Blues. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club.
8 p.m.
Valery Nagorny (tenor saxophone) Jazz
standards. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Anna Guzikova (vocals), Oleg Kuvaitsev
(alto saxophone) and Yury Kapetanaki
(keyboards) Mainstream. Palitra Art Cafe.
9 p.m.
Yury Silkin & Co. Jazz standards, blues.
Sunduk Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
pop
Alexander Novikov Oktyabrsky Concert Hall, 6
Ligovsky Pr., M: Ploshchad Vosstaniya, 275-1273.
7 p.m.
party mix
Dub and Reggae Roots DJs Dym Selector,
Rasklad and Sunshine. Griboyedov. Midnight.
Track System Party DJs Fox, User and
guests. Par.spb. 11 p.m.

rock, etc.
S.K.A./Igrai Garmon Improv, folk punk.
Faculty. 8 p.m.
Tribal Massive Orchestra Acid jazz, trip-hop.
Fish Fabrique. 10 p.m.
Stereo Cocktail/Jam D. Electronica,
alternative. Front. 8 p.m.
Sobachye Serdtse Rock. Manhattan. 11 p.m.
Bondzinsky Alternative. Moloko. 7 p.m.
The Rattlesnakes Rockabilly. Money Honey.
8 p.m.
The Shatters Rockabilly. Money Honey.
11:45 p.m.
Olga Arefyeva and Kovcheg Rock.
Orlandina. 7 p.m.
Jeff Sotovarishchi Rock. Red Club (Main
Stage). 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Solid Soul with Olga Gubinova (vocals)
Soul, funk. (812) Jazz Club. 9 p.m.
Neva Blues Blues. Jazz & Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Alexei Kanunnikov Jazz Band Jazz
Dancing. Jazz Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m.
Yana Radion and Tirami Su Latin jazz. JFC
Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
Lone Star Riders Country. Jimi Hendrix Blues
Club. 8 p.m.
Alexei Lyapko Pop jazz. Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Yury Slavtsov, Jerry Kim and Friends Pop
flamenco. Palitra Art Cafe. 9 p.m.
Ildar Kazakhanov and Mikhail Chernov
Jazz standards. Sunduk Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
pop
Premyer-Ministr Olympia Casino, 14 Ligovsky
Pr., M: Chernyshevskaya, Tel.: 275-5060. 9 p.m.
party mix
Eurodance City Club. 8 p.m.
Mukha-Tsokotukha, or Independence Day
Body-art show with DJs Redisco and Vasya
Attic. Retro hits, disco, swing. Griboyedov.
Midnight.
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rock, etc.
Tribal Massive Orchestra Trip-hop, acid jazz.
Faculty. 8 p.m.
S.O.K. Reggae. Fish Fabrique. 10 p.m.
Kiparis Indie rock. Griboyedov. 10 p.m.
Alfa-Strekozy Alternative. Manhattan. 11 p.m.
Pavel Perets Pop/rock. Moloko. 7 p.m.
The Barbulators Rockabilly. Money Honey.
8 p.m.
Doggy Doggy Rockabilly. Money Honey.
11:45 p.m.
Sergei Bolotnikov and Bolo Band Rock.
Orlandina. 7 p.m.
Krai Rock. Planeta Internet. 8 p.m.
Dr. Faust & Krokodily Rhythm and blues.
Psycho Pub. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Uncle Misha and Friends Mainstream. Jazz
& Phrenia. 8 p.m.
David Goloshchokin Band with Elvira
Trafova (vocals) Jazz organ night. Jazz
Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m.
Gaivoronsky, Ragazanov and Petrova
Improv. JFC Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
BackUp Beat, pop. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club.
8 p.m.
Tanya Tolstova and Jazz Duo Mainstream.
Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Vadim Lebedev and Alexei Lyapko Jazz,
Braziliana. Palitra Art Cafe. 9 p.m.
Igor Shilov and Friends Cool jazz. Sunduk
Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
party mix
Eurodance City Club. 8 p.m.
Goa Trance Party DJs Samadkhi, Mist and
Orange. Griboyedov. Midnight.
Nuphonic Party II DJs Andy Williams (Fuzz
Against Junk, London, U.K.), Lil Tony (NuSpirit,
Helsinki, Finland; Guidance, U.S.), Kfear,
Strong, Antonio, Raf and Chak. Par.spb. 11 p.m.

rock, etc.
El. Coyotas Latin. City Club. 8:30 p.m.
PORT 812 Pop punk. City Club. 1 a.m.
Dobranoch/Reelroad/La Minor All-night
folk concert. Faculty. 10 p.m.
Solnechny Udar Pop/rock. Fish Fabrique.
10 p.m.
Klever Rock. Front. 8 p.m.
El. Coyotas Latin. Griboyedov. 10 p.m.
Garage-Beat All-Nite Party Manhattan.
11 p.m.
2 Kapitana/Jan Coo Alternative. Moloko.
7 p.m.
The Jets Rockabilly. Money Honey. 8 p.m.
The Big Livers Rockabilly. Money Honey.
12:30 a.m.
Stupeni/Tanki Rock. Orlandina. 7 p.m.
Troll Gnyot Yel Folk. Psycho Pub. 8 p.m.
jazz & blues
Make or Break with Masha Nikolayeva
(vocals) 1930s-style swing, blues. (812) Jazz
Club. 9 p.m.
The Shatters Rockabilly. Jazz & Phrenia. 8 p.m.
Take Five Improvizations for Two
Saxophones. Jazz Philharmonic Hall. 7 p.m.
Paradigma Fusion. JFC Jazz Club. 7 p.m.
Tanya Tolstova and Jazz Comfort Vocal jazz
night. Jimi Hendrix Blues Club. 8 p.m.
Yury Slavtsov and Jerry Kim Pop flamenco.
Neo Jazz Club. 8 p.m.
Forrest Gump Blues. Palitra Art Cafe. 9 p.m.
Olga Ponomaryova Jazz vocal night. Sunduk
Art Cafe. 8:30 p.m.
pop
Tatyana Bulanova Hollywood Nites. 1 a.m.
Daikiri Plaza. 1 a.m.
party mix
DJs Udjin and ElectroDrug Big beat,
house free style, NRG pop. Griboyedov.
Midnight.
exhibits
Academy of Arts Museum Wednesday
through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Permanent Collection Paintings, drawings
and sculptures from members of the
academys faculty, with works by Mikhail
Anikushin, Yevsei Moisenko, Boris Ugarov and
Vyacheslav Zadonik.
Alexander Blok Apartment MuseumDaily, 11
a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Wednesday. 57 Ul. Deka-
bristov. M: Sennaya Ploshchad. Tel.: 113-8633.
Permanent Collection Blok lived in the
apartment for 10 years, and it is now one of
the few apartment-museums in St. Petersburg
that has been preserved exactly as it was
when the writer lived there. It includes exhibits
that describe Bloks everyday life books,
furniture, pictures and so on as well as his
creative work.
Anna Akhmatova Museum at the
Fontanka House Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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by Celestine Bohlen
NEW YORK TI MES S ERVI CE
In the Soviet Union of the late 1970s,
Boris Eifman was an exception a
young, ambitious choreogra-
pher who had his own dance
company, then known as the
Leningrad Ballet Ensemble.
What made Eifman even
more exceptional was his pop-
ular success, which stood out like a
beacon at a time when most Soviet
artistic culture was mired in stagnation.
Eifman, now 55 and considered one
of Russias leading modern choreogra-
phers, is back in St. Petersburg. His
company, now called the Boris Eifman
Ballet Theater, performs Don
Quixote, or a Madmans Fantasies,
and Red Giselle at the Alexandriin-
sky Theater this week.
In Don Quixote, as in so many of
his ballets, Eifman portrays an individual
trapped in a society in which they have
no voice. Such themes, in Soviet times,
would never have passed the censors. It
was a time when it was necessary to
waste a lot of time, and nerves, on a war
with fools, he recalls with a smile. Now
I can look back and laugh, but at the
time, it was difficult, very difficult.
Eifmans goal when he founded the
Leningrad Ballet Ensemble in 1977 was
to rock the Soviet ballet establishment
epitomized by Moscows mighty Bol-
shoi Theater out of its complacency
and create something new and exciting
that would appeal to young audiences.
I wanted to use the opportunity to
express my ideas about the future of So-
viet ballet, he says. I didnt have nega-
tive feelings toward the Bolshoi Theater,
but I did have negative feelings against
the bureaucrats who were too afraid for
their jobs to risk anything new.
Eifmans first ballets were set not to
Tchaikovsky but to Pink Floyd, rock
music that was practically forbidden in
those days. The story lines were
provocative, based on the Old Testa-
ment or a short story of a soldier ruined
by his experience in the Russian army.
The movement on stage was emotional,
dramatic, sensuous, even erotic.
Predictably, some critics accused
him of producing pornography, not
choreography. Also predictably, the
performances were a hit, not only in
Leningrad but in other parts of the So-
viet Union, particularly Moscow. A
performance there by the Leningrad
Ballet Ensemble filled the 4,000-seat
theater at the Rossiya Hotel.
Several years after he had been
urged by the KGB to emigrate, he was
refused permission to leave the country
when his troupe was invited to tour
abroad. That time, the authorities clearly
feared that he would emigrate. It wasnt
about me, Eifman said. All they wor-
ried about was their own jobs and how
they would look if I never came back.
But the biggest joke, as he put it,
came in 1987, as perestroika was just
gathering steam. That year Eifman sub-
mitted a work that depicted a psychi-
atric ward, a sensitive subject to a
regime that had had a habit of declaring
its opponents insane. To his utter
amazement, the censorship commission
accepted the work on the first go-round.
It was at that moment that Eifman
realized that the Soviet system was on
the verge of collapse.
The year before, they would have
sent me to prison for presenting such
a work, he said. Then suddenly,
here I was the hero of the new Soviet
ballet. That was when I realized that
perestroika had reached the world of
the arts.
Don Quixote plays the Alexandriin-
sky Theater on Saturday at 7 p.m. Red
Giselle plays on Monday at 7 p.m.
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Closed Monday and the last Wednesday of
every month.
Paintings and Drawings From the 1910s to
the 1930s From the collections of the
Vologodskaya Gallery and the Russian North
Gallery in Archangelsk. Through July 18.
Art Gorod Gallery Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Mythology in Contemporary Art Paintings
and sculptures by St. Petersburg artists
exploring themes from mythology. Through
June 21.
Artists Union of Russia Exhibition Center
Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Love Color photography by Alexander
Yakobchuk. The exhibtions publicity material
states that it is For Adults Only. Through
June 12.
Days of Kazakh Culture in St. Petersburg
An exhibition of works by Kazakh artists.
Paintings, drawings, jewellery and other
genres. Through June 9.
Association of Free Artists Gallery at
Nevsky 20 Daily, noon to 8 p.m.
St. Petersburg Nights Oil paintings and
other canvases with a White Nights theme, by
Vsevolod Salishchev. Through June 15.
Borey Art Gallery Daily, noon to 8 p.m. Closed
Sunday and Monday.
Museum of Gathered Leaves More than 80
works paintings, drawings, collages and
photographs from this museum in Tolyatti.
An alternative exhibition that includes leaves
made out of paper, cloth and rags, picked up
on the banks of the Volga and Neva rivers.
Through June 15.
Gocha Khuskivadze Sculptures and
drawings by this Riga-based artist. Through
June 15.
Brodsky Apartment Museum Wednesday
through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 3 Ploshchad
Isskustv. M: Nevsky Prospect/Gostiny Dvor. Tel.:
314-3658.
Antiquitas Nova Surrealist etchings by
Ukrainian artist Oleg Denisenko. Through
June 9.
Central Naval Museum Wednesday through
Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Permanent Collection The exhibitions The
Russian Orthodox and the Navy, and The
Youth of the Baltic Fleet. More than 650,000
historical objects and works of art about the
navy, plus about 2,000 models of Russian and
foreign ships.
Blessing Russian Sailors The centerpiece of
this exhibition is three banners, Baptism,
The Resurrection of Christ, and St. George
Victorious, made by Russian emigres in Tunis.
Through June 12.
Dostoevsky Museum Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed Monday. 5 Kuznechny Per., M:
Vladimirskaya/Dostoevskaya. Tel.: 311-4031.
Permanent Collection A permanent
memorial to the writer, including sections
dedicated to his personal and professional
biographies.
Models for Dostoevskys Plays Models for
performances of The Gambler, The Idiot,
Demons, and The House of the Dead,
created by students from Long Beach,
California.
Ethnographic Museum Daily, 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. Closed Monday.
Permanent Collection Exhibitions of
artefacts and anthropological bric-a-brac from
every corner of the former Soviet Union,
including The Caucasus and Peoples of
Siberia and the Far East.
Copper Kingdom More than 200 copper
objects from the collection of St. Petersburg
collector Vladimir Zhukov. Tools, bowls, church
utensils. decorations, coins and picture
frames, dating from the 15th to the 20th
centuries. Through September.
Free Arts Foundation at Pushkinskaya 10
Museum of Nonconformist Art and Art Poligon,
Tuesday through Saturday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.;
New Academy Museum, Saturday, 4 p.m. to 7
p.m.; Navicula Artis, Daily, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Gallery 21 Techno-Art Center, Tuesday through
Saturday, 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Bridge Over the Styx
Gallery, Saturday 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The John
Lennon Rock n Roll Temple, Friday, 6 p.m. to 10
p.m. Temple celebrations by invitation only. Tel.:
164-5353. Kino-Phot-Media film showings as
advertised.
Nonconformist Art of the Second Half of
the 20th Century One of the centers most
enduring exhibitions. Museum Wing. Through
June 30.
Autographs Autographs of 20th-century
cultural figures. Petersburg Archive and Library
of Independent Art. Through June 30.
Storytelling Paintings, drawings and
installations by Yevgeny Panov and Dili
Kaipova. Kino-Fot-703 Gallery. Through June 16.
New Paradise Computer-manipulated
images by Oleg Kulik. New Academy Museum.
Through June 23.
The 20th Century by R.Kh. Black-and-white
photography by Alexander Kitayev. Through
June 30.
The Old and the New A personal exhibition
of paintings and other creations by Paris-
based artist Oleg Ligachyov. Museum of
Nonconformist Art. Through June 22.
Pendulums Photographs by Artur Molyev.
Navicula Artis Gallery. Through June 30.
Ink Club Gallery Daily, noon to 7 p.m. Closed
Monday. 79 8-aya Liniya, Vasilievsky Island. M:
Vasileostrovskaya. Tel.: 323-5620.
The Life of Remarkable Puppets
Individually created puppets made of various
materials, such as papier-mache and cloth, by
St. Petersburg artists Roman Shuyemov,
Zhanna Shirokolobova, Irina Yablochkina and
Yelena Kuznetsova. Through June 25.
Kirov Apartment Museum Daily, 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. 26/28 Kamenoostrovsky Pr. Tel.: 346-0217
Permanent Collection Memorabilia about
Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s, when
Sergei Kirov was Communist Party boss in the
city, and artifacts related to his assassination
in 1934, including the cap he was wearing at
the time. In addition, the exhibition To Our
Happy Childhood, an exhibition about
growing up in the good old days.
Kunstkamera Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed
Thursday.
Permanent Collection The collection of the
Kunstkamera, the oldest museum in Russia,
features sundry items belonging to Peter the
Great and the Lomonosov Science Museum.
Also on display are the exhibitions Amazon
Indians, about South American tribes; Toys
of the Peoples of the World, a collection of
playthings from around the globe; Bronze in a
Japanese House, consisting of sculptures
from 19th- and 20th-century collections; and
the infamous Anatomical Rarities, Peters
collection of physiological freaks, pickled and
floating in jars definitely not for the
squeamish all of which run through 2003.
The Admirals Gift A 19th-century Norwegian
mug from the collection of Admiral Konstantin
Poset, brought back from one of his many
journeys. Through June 17.
Manezh Central Exhibition Hall Daily, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Thursday.
Master Class An exhibition of paintings,
drawings, sculptures and decorative art,
celebrating the 10th anniversary of the
Master Class festival. Through June 31.
Masters Guild Gallery Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Anniversary Exhibition An exhibition of
paintings and drawings from the gallerys own
collection to celebrate its 12th anniversary.
Through June 30.
Military Historical Museum of Artillery
and Engineers Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Permanent Collection This museum was
established in 1703 by Peter the Great and
documents the military history of Russia since
that time. Early Russian cannons. War trophies
and memorabilia.
Museum of City Sculpture Daily, 11 a.m. to
6 p.m. Closed Thursday. 179/2 Nevsky
Prospect. M: Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo.
Tel.: 274-2635
Permanent Collection Housed in the Church
of the Annunciation at the Alexander Nevsky
Monastery, the museum contains exhibitions
dedicated to some of St. Petersburgs most
famous sons and daughters. Exhibitions
include The Necropolis of 18th-Century
Artists, The National Pantheon of Russia,
and The Annunciation Burial Vault. The
museum also has a branch, called Literary
Bridges, at 30 Rasstanaya Ul. It is open daily,
except Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tel.:
166-2383.
From Vyritsa to Helsinki Landscapes by
Valery Lukki of Vyritsa, in the Leningrad
Oblast, and Helsinki. Through June 31.
Museum of the History of Religion Daily, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday. 14/5
Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa. M: Sadovaya/Sennaya
Ploshchad. Tel.: 311-4549.
Permanent Collection Exhibitions about the
history of religions, including Ancient and
Traditonal Belief; Religion in the Ancient
World, about Egypt, Greece, Rome and the
Far East; and The Development of Christianity
and the History of Russian Orthodoxy; plus
the exhibition What a Pleasant Millenium We
Have Outside, which includes icons,
sculptures and the like describing the
development of religions in recent times and
runs through 2003.
Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Permanent Collection The History of St.
Petersburg from 1703 to the Early 19th
century. Commandants House. Oreshik-
Noteburg-Shlisselburg. Nevskaya Kurtina.
Museum of Old Petersburg, Petersburg
Interiors in Photographs. Engineers House.
Furniture and Interior Objects from the
Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.
Naryshkin Bastion. Thursday, 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Walking tours along the top of the kurtiny and
bastions of the Peter and Paul Fortress also
leave from Nevskaya Kurtina.
Petersburg Through Artists Eyes Works
with a local theme by members of the
Pechatnya printing workshop. Nevskaya
Kurtina. Through August.
Window on Dutch Petersburg The first
in a series of seven six-week exhibitions of
photographs from a recent international
competition. Nevskaya Panorama Walking Tour.
Through June 10.
Museum of the Political History of Russia
Daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Thursday.
Permanent Collection A range of exhibitions
that give an insight into what makes Russia
what it is today, including Russian Reforms
and Reformers; Business Russia, a history
of finance and banking in Russia in the 19th
and 20th centuries; From the Sublime to the
Ridiculous, the history of Russia through
propaganda; Who Killed Nicholas II?; and
Having Won the War. Also the exhibition
Kshesinskayas Mansion: Times and People
that runs through 2003 and traces the fate of
the mansion built for Matilda Kshesinskaya, a
prima ballerina at the Imperial Ballet, by her
lover Nicholas II.
Museum of the Political History of Russia
Annex Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Permanent Collection The exhibition The
VChK-KGB-FSB Against Espionage and
Terrorism, including photographs, documents
and video footage documenting the state
spooks valiant fight against espionage,
economic crime, terrorism and their repression
of Soviet citizens.
Museum of Theater and Musical Arts
Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 6
Ploshchad Ostrovskogo. M: Nevsky
Prospect/Gostiny Dvor. Tel.: 311-2195
Permanent Collection An exhibition about
Russian drama theaters, actors, directors and
designers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The
exhibition includes paintings, mockups of
plays, photographs, costumes and private
objects belonging to actors and directors.
Nabokov Apartment MuseumWednesday
through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tel.: 315-4713.
Permanent Collection The museum includes
the whole building where the Nabokov family
lived from 1987 until November 1917, and
describes the writers family and his creative
work.
Levon Lazarev Paintings, sculptures and
drawings. Through June 14.
Nota Bene Art Gallery Daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Closed Sunday.
Ballet Paintings and drawings by David
Borovsky and Yana Grigoryeva, themed
around ballet dancers from the Mariinsky
Theater. Through June 7.
Printing Museum Monday, Thursday,
Saturday, Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed
Wednesday and the last Tuesday of each
month.
Permanent Collection Publishing and
typography at the start of the 20th century,
plus The Music Room, a reconstruction of a
19th-century St. Petersburg music-lovers
apartment, replete with all manner of
gramphones, records and other paraphernalia.
Pushkin Apartment Museum Daily, 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Closed Tuesday.
Up the Steps Portraits, drawings and
personal objects connected to the poet Vasily
Shukovsky. Through June 24.
The Miraculous Brush An exhibition
devoted to the complicated fate of two
portraits of Pushkin that were painted 175
years ago by Orast Kiprensky and Vasily
Tropinin.
Rumyantsev Mansion Daily, 11 a.m. to 5
p.m., Tuesday, 11a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed
Wednesday and the last Tuesday of each
month.
Permanent Collection A range of exhibitions
with local themes, including The History of
the Rumyantsev Mansion, NEP: Images of
the Town and Man, St. Petersburg on the
Edge of the Millennium, plus an exhibit
commemorating the atomic bombing of
Nagasaki.
Portraits and Photographs Historical and
contemporary portraits and photographs.
Through July.
Samoilov Dynasty Apartment Museum
Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. 8
Stremyannaya Ul. Tel.: 164-1130.
Permanent Collection Stars of the Russian
Ballet, an exhibition of artifacts connected to
Russias rich ballet history.
Sheremetyev Palace Wednesday through
Friday, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, noon to
4 p.m.
Permanent Collection The suites of the
palace, plus an exhibition of watercolors,
blueprints and photographs to mark its 250th
anniversary. The palace also houses an annex
to the Museum of Theater and Musical Arts
that describes St. Petersburgs musical life
from the 18th century to the 20th century and
includes an exhibition of musical instruments.
Smolny Cathedral Exhibition Hall Daily, 11
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Permanent Collection Two exhibitions, about
the architecture of Smolny Cathedral and the
history of Smolny Convent.
The Restoration of Museum Values in
Russia About 600 paintings, frescoes,
decorative pieces, icons and cultural objects
from the 15th century to the present day,
restored by 15 St. Petersburg and 15 Moscow
artists. Through August 15.
Smolny Historical Memorial Museum
Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. by
appointment, groups only. Friday, 3 p.m. open to
individual visitors.
Permanent Collection Exhibitions about the
history of womens education in Russia,
Smolny and the first Soviet government from
October 1917 to March 1918, and Smolny
during the siege of Leningrad.
SPAS Daily, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday.
Children of Arkhip Kundzhi More than 40
landscape paintings and drawings by this
artists union. Through June 15.
State Hermitage Museum Daily, 10:30 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Sunday, 10:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed
Monday.
Avant-Garde Jewellery: Sources and
Parallels. One hundred and twenty works by
European jewellers from the 1970s through the
1990s, and Russian creations from the past
two years. Through July 14.
Stained Glass From the Marienkirche
Stained glass, taken by the Red Army from the
Marienkirche in Frankfurt-an-der-Oder,
Germany, after World War II. The windows will
be returned to the church later this year.
Through June 15.
The Worlds Masterpieces at the
Hermitage Currently on display are
Caravaggios Amor Vincit Omnia (Love
Conquers All); Titians Venus With a Mirror;
Lorenzo Lottos The Flight Into Egypt; two
13th-century Italian icons; and an exhibit of
Kazakh gold, on loan from various museums
around the world. Through July 31.
For the Common Good: Commemorating
the 300th Anniversary of the Monetary
Reforms of Peter the Great More than 500
displays from the collection of the Mint
Museum: coins, Russian, European and Asian
medals from several centuries. The test
mintings and medals from the era of Peter the
Great and rare 19th-century medals are of
particular interest.
Russias Outstanding Designer An
exhibition devoted to Nadezhda Lomanova,
one of Russias most famous fashion
designers. Theatrical costumes, and dresses
made for Alexandra, the wife of Nicholas II.
Through June 9.
Beast and Man Images of man and animals
in more than 1,000 examples of primitive art.
Through June 26.
One Collections Fate Five hundred works in
stone from the collection of one of the Dukes
of Orleans. Through July.
Nicholas I and the New Hermitage.
Nicholas I opened St. Petersburgs first public
museum, and this exhibition covers the event
through paintings by European old masters,
sculptures, graphic works, creations by
Russian masters and documents. New
Hermitage. Through August 25.
Buddhist Cave Art Wall paintings from a the
Bezeklik Buddhist monastery near Tuffan, east
Turkistan. Through July 28.
State Russian Museum Daily, 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. Closed Tuesday.
Permanent Collection Russian art, from
16th-century icon-painters to the latest
movements in modern art.
Natalya Goncharova: The Russian
Years Works, often with religious themes,
from Goncharovas early period, before she left
Russia in 1915. Benois Wing. Through August.
Vladimir Baranov-Rossine. 1888-1942 An
exhibition devoted to one of the Russian
avant-gardes leading exponents. Paintings
and sculptures. Through July.
In Memory of Timur Novikov An
exhibition, being put on jointly with the Free
Arts Foundation at Pushkinskaya 10,
dedicated to the memory of St. Petersburg
artist Novikov, who died of AIDS at the end
of May. Paintings, collages and photographs.
Through June 31.
The Illusion of Empire Collages, made from
newspaper by Natasha and Valery Cherkassky,
about the U.S.S.R., 1930s Germany and the
United States. Through June 24.
Pushkin Charity Foundation Opens With a Gala Night
On June 3, the White Hall of
the Marble Palace was done up
with multi-lingual beau monde,
as the International Pushkin
Charity Foundation hosted a
gala evening. Elegantly dressed
ladies and tuxedoed gentlemen
enjoyed a program featuring
classical music and arias from
the Russian opera repertoire, as
well as a composition from the
new musical by Andrei Petrov.
Soloists from the Mariinsky The-
ater performed one of Lenskys
arias from Yevgeny Onegin, a
duet from Dubrovsky and
scenes from the ballet Dreams
created by Nikita Dolgushin to
music by Tchaikovsky. A deli-
cious buffet dinner added
earthly pleasures to accompany
a fireworks display.
The arts and charity go to-
gether naturally. The guests had
the opportunity to provide real
aid to real people, as the pur-
pose of the event was to gather
money for equipment for St. Pe-
tersburg Hospital No. 15 for or-
phans and to protect the
archives of the Institute of Rus-
sian Literature (Pushkin House).
Here in Russia, the tradition
of social charity events is just
being revived after being inter-
rupted by the revolution. But it
has a long history all over the
world. This soiree was the first
in a series of significant charity
projects the foundation plans to
hold in Russia. June 3 was a
perfect date to hold the event,
as the White Nights season in
St. Petersburg was traditionally
the period when the creme de
la creme put on amateur shows
in the open air and participated
in charity concerts. So this
night at the Marble Palace sim-
ply followed the tradition of
combining art with charity.
The foundation was registered
in January, and its activities in
Russia cover not only charity, but
also support scholarly and cul-
tural projects such as the renova-
tion of the Pushkin museum in
Pushkinskiye Gory, conferences
at Russias best-known universi-
ties, publishing and theaters.
We are going to unite all those
who are interested in Russian cul-
ture and Pushkins legacy and
those who are making their first
foray into Pushkins poetic output
and Russian literature in general,
Kenneth Pushkin, the general di-
rector of the foundation and a de-
scendant of Abraham Hannibal,
Alexander Pushkins great grand-
father said while introducing the
foundation at the soiree. Im
aware of the great honor and re-
sponsibility we have taken upon
ourselves by chosing such a
name for the foundation. And we
must do our best with commit-
ment and humility.
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AND SUPPORTED BY:
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by Donald Fanger
LOS ANGELES TI MES
Monumental and magisterial are
words that have surfaced repeatedly in
response to Joseph Franks Dos-
toevsky project, the first four
volumes of which appeared in
1976, 1983, 1986 and 1995. Now,
the largest volume, The Mantle
of the Prophet, 1871-1881, cov-
ering the last decade of the writers life,
completes the series.
Franks work is, as reviewers have
consistently testified, unrivaled in what
it sets out to do and in the remarkable
degree to which it succeeds in doing it.
It is unquestionably the fullest, most
nuanced and evenhanded account of its
subject in any language, and it has sig-
nificantly changed our understanding of
both the man and his work.
Franks originality lies in the way he
manages to chart, at the same time, the
evolution of Dostoevsky the man, of
Dostoevsky the writer, of the writings
and of the changing times that did so
much to shape all three. Frank writes as a
biographer, literary historian, critic and
historian of 19th century Russian culture
in the belief that only such a multi-
pronged approach can yield a proper ap-
preciation of the art that is Dostoevskys
first and ultimate claim on our attention.
What is unprecedented in these vol-
umes, apart from the wealth of detail, is
Franks perception, as he puts it in his
preface, that Dostoevskys great novels
bring into focus all the problems of mid-
19th century Russian culture not, to
be sure, on the level on which they ordi-
narily appeared to his contemporaries,
but transforming them in terms of his
own eschatological and messianic vi-
sion. The creative process may be fated
to remain a mystery on its intimate side,
but Frank shows just how much illumina-
tion can come from studying the kinds of
transformation he speaks of here.
The Dostoevsky in Franks earlier
volumes is less eccentric and extreme
than he has been taken to be. By toning
him down, Frank was clearly trying to
combat some cliches about his unbal-
anced genius. But one result was to make
Dostoevskys circumstances more vivid
than his personality or temperament.
Now, perhaps in tacit acknowledg-
ment that this may have introduced an-
other kind of imbalance, Frank shows a
constant readiness to acknowledge the
intemperance that so often overcame
him when his nerves were frayed, his
prickliness of character (well known
and ill-famed), his sudden explosions
of uncontrollable rage, the fact that he
was not an easy person to live with un-
der any circumstances. More than that,
Frank now volunteers judgments: Dos-
toevsky could be unpardonably rude; a
vicious remark about his rival Tur-
genev is slanderous and totally unjusti-
fied, Dostoevsky at his worst.
But there is worse. In the period cov-
ered by this book, Dostoevsky became a
public figure, making speeches, pour-
ing out a stream of highly personal
journalism in his Diary of a
Writer, setting forth an ecstatic
vision of Russia as the only
bulwark against godless
modernity and the Russian
people as the only reposi-
tory of authentic Chris-
tianity, destined to bring
a new order of love and
brotherhood to the in-
ferior peoples of the
world, by force of
arms, if needed.
The problem for
Frank is that this pas-
sionate utopianism car-
ried with it a no less
passionate xenophobia,
a hatred that, as Frank
notes, extended to ev-
ery people not of Great
Russian origin and is most
obvious virulent in
relation to the Jews.
Frank gives much uneasy
attention to this. Anti-Semitic
references, he finds, appear oc-
casionally in the earlier novels, but
Frank calls them not particularly
abusive if judged by the standards of his
time and place. He even tries to excuse
the casually contemptuous treatment of
the Jewish fire fighter who witnesses
Svidrigailovs suicide in Crime and Pun-
ishment.
But the authors personal loathing for
the Jews that erupted in the 1870s is
something else. Dostoevsky now took
every opportunity to rant against Yids
and Yiddism and to excoriate the
crowd of triumphant Jews and kikes that
has thrown itself on Russia.
Quoted at length by Frank, this anti-
Semitic frenzy makes hard and repulsive
reading, and Frank can offer no explana-
tion beyond conjecturing that Dosto-
evsky may have needed to find a scape-
goat for the disappointments, frustra-
tions and social-economic upheavals that
had plunged Russian life into turmoil
since the liberation of the serfs. Repeat-
edly he brands it as shocking and inex-
cusable, but he adamantly avoids treating
it as integral to Dostoevskys character or
temperament he does the same with
what he calls Dostoevskys gambling
mania concluding only that it leaves
a permanent stain on his reputation.
Most interesting in this volume is the
picture Frank gives of other changes in
the writer and the society he depicted
and hoped to influence. Central here
were changing beliefs in the new cohort
of young radicals that made it possible
for Dostoevsky to assume a prophets
mantle. Although, only a decade before,
radical young people had rejected moral
and ethical considerations in the name of
science now they were being swept up
into the Populist movement and going
to the people to bring enlightenment.
This amounted to a reinstatement of
moral and ethical considerations. t
meant, as Frank puts it, that Socialism
was once again as in the days of Dos-
toevskys own youthful radicalism be-
ing regarded as the realization of the ide-
als of Christ on Earth. Here was a posi-
tion with which the writer could once
again sympathize, as was the populist
reverence for the Russian peasantry.
It was on the strength of these shared
beliefs that he was able to find an audi-
ence among the younger generation and
to gain despite the reactionary nature
of many of his beliefs a unique posi-
tion in the life of his country. That he was
a bundle of the most startling contradic-
tions only served to underline his inde-
pendence. It was, Frank contends, a
broad public that read the monthly
installments of his Diary of a
Writer, despite the fact that its
circulation seems to have
stayed under 1,000.
In it, they found provoca-
tive treatments of the ques-
tions of the day, inter-
spersed with literary remi-
niscences and short fic-
tions. Everybody could
find something to sym-
pathize with as well as to
reject in him. After all,
this was the man who
had suffered eight years
of prison and exile for his
earlier radicalism. Be-
sides, whatever else one
might say, he was a great
novelist and passionately
concerned with the fate of
Russia.
Frank is very good on the
Diary, citing both its appeal-
ing and appalling aspects and
noting how many of the themes
Dostoevsky first broached in it
would go into The Brothers Karama-
zov, where their being incarnated by the
vivid characters rendered them more
problematic, more agonistic and thus less
stark and unpalatable. He is, if anything,
even better on Dostoevskys art in this
period. He explains the relative failure of
A Raw Youth as a consequence of the
writers self-censorship once he had
agreed to publish it in the leading pop-
ulist journal, whose readership he wished
to court. But the centerpiece is what he
calls Dostoevskys greatest novel, The
Brothers Karamazov.
Devoting some 200 pages to this
novel, Frank details its evolution in mas-
terly fashion, citing letters and notes to
clarify the writers intentions and show-
ing how the book refracts all his major
preoccupations the conflict between
reason and Christian faith, the weaken-
ing of the family, the untenability, as he
saw it, of moral standards once divorced
from religious belief.
In Franks analysis of the text, he re-
peatedly shows how it embodies the nov-
elists conviction that conveying his sense
of reality required not just realistic de-
tail and social and psychological accu-
racy, but the irradiation of all by some
transcendent ideal. Frank is acute in
pointing out what I would call Dosto-
evskys use of concentricities, the way he
refracts a thematic motif through a suc-
cession of characters, each of whom ex-
presses a different aspect or level of its
meaning. And he finally dispels the mis-
understanding of what makes suffering a
positive moral value for Dostoevsky: It
was a value for him only if it came from
an inner wrestling with the self.
Three months after completing this
novel, Dostoevsky, who had long suf-
fered from emphysema, died peacefully
in his sleep. His funeral was like nothing
Russia had ever seen. Fifteen choirs and
some 30,000 mourners from the most dis-
parate levels of society made up the
cortege. Frank concludes triumphantly,
stressing how, after a decade of being
constantly in the public eye, Dostoevsky
had finally become a revered, symbolic
figure who seemed to stand above the
merciless battle of ideologies.
That Frank does not indicate how
briefly that moment was to last is a re-
minder of the exclusions that are the
price of his achievement. He makes it
possible to appreciate, as never before,
the accomplishments of Dostoevsky in
his time and place, but there is scarcely a
word about his posthumous life in Russia
or outside it. Frank gives a vivid sense of
the odds Dostoevsky overcame, what he
struggled with, the unique cultural phe-
nomenon he became, but he pays virtu-
ally no attention to what we dont know
and want to know about the man
and the characters he created.
Franks magisterial tone turns
Olympian at times, dismissing unnamed
critics whose arguments are deplored
but not considered. Russian words are
flaunted unnecessarily and not al-
ways correctly in the text. The author
of this imposing work, in short, is hu-
man: Small wonder that he has left parts
of the Dostoevsky puzzle intact.
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet,
1871-1881, by Joseph Frank, Princeton
University Press, 784 pages. $35.
Donald Fanger is the author of The
Creation of Nikolai Gogol and Dos-
toevsky and Romantic Realism. He is
Harry Levin Research Professor of Lit-
erature at Harvard University.
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Cuban Art From Ludwigs Collection
Paintings, sculpture, drawings and
installations. Through June 31.
Italian Artists of the 18th and 19th
Centuries Paintings and drawings by Italian
artists who worked in Russia in the 18th and
19th centuries. Through June 24.
Vanity Case A traveling exhibition of
works by designer Philip Stark. Through July.
The Stray Dog Art Basement 5 Ploshchad
Isskustv. M: Nevsky Prospect/Gostiny Dvor. Tel.:
315-2775
LItalia Sulla Via Italiana Part of St.
Petersburgs annual festival of all things
Italian, the exhibition includes works by the
citys Otrazhenie Art Group of places in the
city that have links to Italian architects.
Through June 27.
Toy Museum 32 Nab. Reki Karpovki. Tel.:
234-4312
Paper Puppets More than 30 St. Petersburg
painters and sculpturs show off a range of
items in this unusual genre. The puppets are
meant to reveal the artists inner worlds and
their unrealized potential. Through
September 15.
From the Storeroom of Work An exhibition
of toys made from clay by Novgorod-based
artist Stanislav Tarasov. The clay toys on
display demonstrate a new approach to the
subject, using natural materials collected from
the environment. Through September 30.
Valensiya Art Center 5 Prospect Bakunina.
Tel.: 346-7460.
The Energy of Metal Nontraditional paintings
by Vyborg artist Vadim Belokyutov. Through
June 9.
Trajectory of the Subconscious Sculptures
by Latvian artist Olga Shilova. From June 10.
Yelagin Palace Museum Wednesday through
Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
First of May Glass Factory The first in a
cycle of exhibitions by Russian glass factories.
Various forms of glasswork. Through June 30.
Yelizarov Apartment Museum Daily, 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Closed Wednesday. 52/24 Ul. Lenina.
Tel.: 235-3778
Permanent Collection An exhibition about
Anna Ulyarova-Yelizova, Lenins daughter. Part
of the series The Fate of the Russian
Intelligentsia.
screens
NEW! 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002, U.S.-
U.K.-France). Devastated by a breakup with
his longtime girlfriend, a young Web
designer (Josh Hartnett) vows to stay
celibate for 40 days. Michael Lehmann
directs this romantic comedy. Kolizei, Mirage
Cinema. Through June 20.
American Beauty (1999, U.S.) A man
(Kevin Spacey), reacts to a mid-life crisis by
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Like many cities in Russia, Pskov is a
city of ancient legend: a storybook tale
of a princess with a vision.
A population center since an-
cient times, Pskov was settled by
Finnish tribes and later by Slavs.
By the 9th century it was already
a significant regional trading cen-
ter. But it was not until the 10th century
that the city was touched by legend. A
certain Princess Olga came to the banks
of the Velikaya River and pointed to a
spot where rays of sunlight pierced
through the clouds and converged. In-
spired by this vision, Olga foretold that a
great city with a cathedral devoted to the
Holy Trinity would be built on that spot.
Today Pskov is a treasure trove of
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quitting his job, standing up to his
domineering wife and lusting after his
daughters classmate in this dark comedy
directed by Sam Mendes. Won five Oscars in
2000, including best picture. Spartak. Sun.,
June 9 at 2:30 p.m.; Thurs., June 13 at 7 p.m.
Blow (2001, U.S.) This film is based on a true
story of George Jung, the man who
established the American cocaine market in
the 1970s. Johnny Depp stars. Molodyozhny.
Starts June 1.
Brigands, Chapter VII (Brigands, chapitre
VII) (1996, France) Paris-based Georgian
director Otar Ioseliani sets his bittersweet
fable in ancient, Stalinist and contemporary
Georgia. Spartak. Sun., June 9 at 4:30 p.m.
The Butterfly Hunt (La chasse aux
papillons) (1992, France-Germany-Italy) From
Georgian director Otar Ioselianis French
period. Set in and around an ancient French
castle, the film takes a sad, yet humorous,
look at the rupture of spiritual, cultural and
moral ties between generations. Spartak. Wed.,
June 12 at 3 p.m.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, U.S.) Based on
a play by Tennessee Williams, the drama tells
the story of a neurotic southern-United States
family an alcoholic husband (Paul Newman)
and his agressive wife (Elizabeth Taylor).
Richard Brooks directs. Spartak. Thurs., June
13 at 5:30 p.m.
NEW! Childrens Play (Un jeu denfants)
(2001, France) Laurent Tuel directs this horror
film about a couple who suddenly notice their
children becoming slightly strange. Karin Viard
and Charles Berling co-star. Dom Kino.
Through June 13.
The Conformist (Il Conformista) (1970,
Italy-France-Germany) Loosely based on
Alberto Moravias novel, set in the 1930s, the
film stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a member
of the upper class, who conforms to political
trends of the time. Stefania Sandrelli co-stars.
Bernardo Bertolucci directs. Spartak. Sat., June
8 at 7 p.m.
The Cotton Club (1984, U.S.) Francis Ford
Coppola directs a period piece about the
famous Harlem nightclub, which is populated
with gangsters, jazz musicians and tap
dancers. A great soundtrack of jazz
standards. Richard Gere and Diane Lane star.
Spartak. Mon., June 10 at 9 p.m.; Tues., June
11 at 3 p.m.
NEW! Crush (2002, U.K.) This witty film
follows the friendship of three 40-something
women who meet for weekly drinking sessions
to complain about their love lives. John McKay
directs. Spartak. Sat., June 8 at 1 p.m.; Mon.,
June 10 at 5 p.m.; Wed., June 12 at 7:15 p.m.
The Doors (1991, U.S.) In this ultimate story
of sex, drugs, and rock n roll, Oliver Stone
pays homage to Jim Morrison and the 1960s.
Val Kilmer plays the late Doors frontman and
does most of the singing himself. Spartak.
Mon., June 10 at 3 p.m.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999, U.S.-U.K.) Stanley
Kubrick takes a close look at a marriage in
crisis in his last work, which was released after
his death. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star.
Spartak. Fri., May 7 at 7 p.m.
Farewell, Home Sweet Home! (In vino
veritas!) (1999, France-Italy-Switzerland)
Georgian-born Otar Ioseliani directs this
absurdist fable about members of a bourgeois
family, who sometimes go to extremes to
make their dull lives exciting. Spartak. Tues.,
June 11 at 9 p.m.; Fri., June 14 at 3 p.m.
Full Metal Jacket (1987, U.S.) One of
the finest Vietnam War sagas ever made,
filmed, ironically, in England. Matthew Modine,
Adam Baldwin and R. Lee Ermey star. Stanley
Kubrick directs. Spartak. Sun., June 9 at 7 p.m.;
Wed., June 12 at 5 p.m.
Funny Girl (1968, U.S.) Musical comedy
starring Barbra Streisand as a talented young
singer fighting for her place on the stage.
Streisand shared Oscar with Katherine
Hepburn for Best Actress. Spartak. Fri., June 7
at 5 p.m.; Thurs., June 13 at 3 p.m.
NEW! High Crimes (2002, U.S.) Ashley Judd
plays a successful San Francisco lawyer, who
learns that her husband (James Caviezel) is a
former Special Operations soldier wanted by
the FBI on charges of mass murder. Kolizei.
Through June 20.
Last Tango in Paris (1971, France-Italy)
Marlon Brando stars as a washed-up middle-
aged American in Paris who initiates a purely
sexual liaison with a chance acquaintance
(Maria Schneider). Directed by Bernando
Bertolucci. Spartak. Tues., June 11 at 7 p.m.;Fri.,
June 14 at 5 p.m.
Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le
peuple de lherbe) (1996, France) A
unique, unclassifiable film about the insect
world. Won the Technical Grand Prize at the
Cannes Film Festival. Spartak. Sun., June 9 at
1 p.m.
NEW! No Shame (Sin Verguenza) (2001,
Spain) One of the most popular Spanish films
of the year, this award-winning comedy takes
an ironic look at the world of the theater and
theater folk. Veronica Forque and Daniel
Jimenez Camacho star. Joaquin Oristrell
directs. Dom Kino. Through June 13.
NEW! The Panic Room (2002, U.S.) In this
David Fincher thriller, two women enclose
themselves in the panic room, a secret,
burglar-proof chamber, as three ruthless
criminals break in. Jodie Foster and Kristen
Stewart star. Avrora. Through June 30. Crystal
Palace, Mirage Cinema. Through June 30.
The Pirate (1948, U.S.) Judy Garland and
Gene Kelly star in this classic Hollywood
musical romance with a score by Cole Porter.
Vincente Minnelli directs. Spartak. Mon., June
10 at 7 p.m.
NEW! The Race (Le raid) (2002, France)
Four friends are accidentally given a $4-million
murder contract and try to fulfill it, while the
real killers follow them. An average action
comedy aimed at the teenage market. With
Helene de Fougerolles. Mirage Cinema.
Through June 16.
NEW! Showtime (2002, U.S.) Tom Deys
follow-up to Shanghai Noon, Showtime is
a no-frills action comedy about two cops
appearing in a 24-hour reality show. Robert
De Niro and Eddie Murphy star. Avrora.
Through June 30. Kolizei. Through June 13.
Leningrad. Starts June 14. Mirage Cinema.
Through June 12.
NEW! Slackers (2002, U.S.) Jason
Schwartzman blackmails three exam-cheaters
into getting him the girl of his dreams (played
by supermodel James King) in this campus
romantic comedy. Molodyozhny, Parisiana.
Through June 16.
The Sons Room (La Stanza del figlio)
(2001, France-Italy) Winner of the Palme dOr
at this years Cannes Film Festival, this drama
deals with a family trying to cope with a loss.
Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine
Trinca star. Moretti directs. Spartak. Fri., June
7 at 5 p.m.; Tues., June 11 at 5 p.m.; Fri., June
14 at 7 p.m.
NEW! Sound of the Sea (Son de mar)
(2001, Spain) A woman, who thinks her
husband is dead, remarries, only to find out
years later that he is still alive. J.J. Bigas Luna
directs this modern day tragi-melodrama. Dom
Kino. Through June 13.
Spiderman (2002, U.S.) Based on the comic
books, this adventure thriller tells the story of
a student who acquires superhuman qualities
after being bitten by a genetically altered
spider. Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe star.
Sam Raimi directs. Crystal Palace. Through
June 30. Parisiana. Through June 13.
Stage Fright (1950, U.S.) This minor
Hitchcock film is a by-the-numbers mystery
yarn about a man (Richard Todd) wrongly
accused of murder. Marlene Dietrich plays the
love interest. Spartak. Sat., June 8 at 2:30 p.m.
Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the
Clones (2002, U.S.) Jedi knights continue
their struggle against the forces of evil. Ewan
McGregor, Hayden Christensen, Samuel L.
Jackson and Natalie Portman star. George
Lucas directs. Avrora. Through June 30.
Barrikada. Through June 20. Crystal Palace.
Through June 30. Leningrad. Through June 20.
NEW! Stark Raving Mad (2002, U.S.) A
group of twenty-somethings plan a bank
robbery disguised as a rave party in this action
comedy. Seann William Scott (American Pie)
stars. Mirage Cinema. Through June 16.
NEW! Sex and Lucia (Lucia y el sexo)
(2001, France-Spain) Lucia (Paz Vega), an
attractive server from Madrid, goes to a quiet
island where her lover apparently died in an
accident. Julio Medem directs. Dom Kino.
Through June 14.
NEW! The Time Machine (2002, U.S.)
Another screen adaptation of H.G. Wells sci-fi
novel, directed by his great-grandson, Simon
Wells. A professor invents a time machine that
allows him to travel 800,000 years into the
future where a civil war is raging. Guy Pearce
stars. Mirage Cinema. Through June 30.
ESCOs register of world cultural her-
itage sites. International experts identi-
fied the citys fortress and the Holy Trin-
ity Cathedral as particularly significant.
Pskov is an ideal city for a walking
tour. The best place to start is across from
the fortress on the left bank of the Ve-
likaya River in the Zavelichye neighbor-
hood. From there, you can mount the Ol-
ginsky Bridge, which offers a breathtak-
ing panorama of the fortress and Holy
Trinity Cathedral that gives a real sense
of the citys ancient might and beauty.
The Holy Trinity Cathedral that was
foreseen by Princess Olga has been a
symbol of Pskov for centuries. Where
the Trinity is, there is Pskov, the citys
proud residents used to say. And no won-
der. The cathedral dominates the city. 70
meters tall, it can be seen from up to 15
kilometers away in good weather.
The church that survives today, built
in 1699, is the fourth to occupy the site.
The first Holy Trinity Church was made
of wood and, according to legend, was
built around 957, during the lifetime of
Princess Olga. The stone Holy Trinity
Cathedral na Kromu, or in the fortress,
was built in 1138, during the reign of
Prince Vsevolod Gavriil of Novgorod.
The original appearance of this cathedral
has been preserved in icons painted at
the time. The cathedral itself collapsed in
1363 and a new cathedral was built im-
mediately afterward containing a burial
vault for outstanding citizens of Pskov.
Local princes were also enthroned there.
Like many ancient cities, the main at-
traction is the fortress. Moscow has its
Kreml, or Kremlin; Novgorod has its
Detinets; in Pskov the fortress is known
as the Krom. Unlike the fortresses in
other medieval cities, the Krom never
housed residents inside its walls. It was
designed primarily as a sort of municipal
storehouse for food. It was guarded by
specially trained watchdogs whose food
was kept in the central tower. Stealing
from the Krom was considered a serious
crime it carried the death penalty.
Protected on two sides by the Ve-
likaya and Pskov rivers, the fortress is tri-
angular in shape. The Smerdy Gate
the name probably refers to smerd, an
old word for a peasant landholder
stands on the Velikaya side, while the Ve-
likiye Vorota, or Great Gate, faces the
Pskov. The Kroms third side was pro-
tected by a deep, man-made mote filled
with water, called the Greblya, or Dike,
above which rose a high wall.
The entrance to the Krom today is lo-
cated in its south wall. The broad square
that opens inside the gate is packed with
the foundations of ancient churches un-
covered during excavation work. This is
the Dovmontov gorod, a fortress that,
legend has it, was built in the 13th cen-
tury by Pskovs Prince Dovmont-Timo-
fei. A huge number of churches once oc-
cupied this relatively small space, but in
the late 16th and early 17th centuries
they fell out of use and were torn down.
None of the original buildings in the
Dovmontov fortress have survived, save
the Prikaznye palaty, or Office Building,
built in 1695 on the ruins of the south
wall. Recently restored, this building with
its extravagant porch makes a very im-
pressive sight. It houses exhibitions and a
gallery featuring works by contemporary
artists, and is open every day from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. Visitors can purchase or
specially order art works made of ce-
ramic, porcelain and metal materials.
One of Pskovs oldest architectural
gems is the Mirozhsky monasterys
Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the
Savior, built in 1156. The monastery can
be reached on foot in about 30 minutes
along the Reki Velikoi embankment,
passing by many architectural landmarks
along the way. Once you get to the 50-
Letiya Oktybrya Bridge, cross over the
river and double back to the monastery.
The monasterys cathedral is
renowned for its frescoes. Protected by
UNESCO, these frescoes are extremely
rare examples of monumental painting in
12th century Rus. The paintings were ex-
ecuted shortly after the cathedral was
built, but were later hidden by plaster. It
was not until the church was undergoing
repair work in 1858 that they were dis-
covered. They were not fully cleaned and
restored until the end of the 19th century.
Once you have explored the treasures
of the city, there are a number of equally
remarkable attractions outside the city.
Pushkin Hills where the estates and fi-
nal resting place of beloved poet Alexan-
der Pushkin are located is 110 kilome-
ters south of Pskov. If you do decide to
make the trip, be sure to visit the poets
Trigorskoye and Mikhailovskoye homes,
as well as the Svyatogorsky monastery,
where Pushkin is buried.
A visit to the 15th-century Pskovo-
Pechersky monastery 50 kilometers
from Pskov is also likely to be unfor-
gettable. As the name suggests, it is
home to a unique cathedral built inside
a cave. Visitors should be aware that
this is a working monastery and there
are strict rules about appropriate attire:
no shorts or revealing clothing allowed.
Finally, Izborsk, one of the oldest
cities in Russia, is just 30 kilometers away.
First mentioned in 862, Izborsk is home
to some 200 archeological monuments,
including a 14th-century fortress.
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Where to Stay:
One of Pskovs best hotels is the Rizh-
skaya, situated at 25 Rizhsky
Prospekt. Tel.: (8112) 46-22-23.
A double semi-luxury room
here costs 1,500 rubles ($50) a
night. The less expensive Tur-
ist Hotel has a good location,
but the accommodation is
more spartan. A single room
goes for 450 rubles ($15) a
night. The Turist is located on
the banks of the Velikaya River, across
from the fortress at, 4 Ulitsa Paromen-
skaya, Tel.: (8112) 44-51-51.
Where To Eat:
Inside the Rizhskaya Hotel is the An-
dromeda restaurant and a bar that also
serves food. The restaurant is open
from noon until 2 a.m. and dinner costs
around $30 per person. The center of
Pskov also has many pleasant, inex-
pensive cafes and bistros, such as the
Cherskaya at 40 Oktyabrsky Prospekt.
How To Get There:
The overnight train from St. Peters-
burgs Vitebsky Vokzal is the best way
to reach Pskov. It takes about five hours
to get there. A one-way, platskartny
ticket costs about 160 rubles ($5.10).

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