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In the summer on Nevsky prospect, Dvortsovaya, Birzhevaya and Senatskaya squares you can see a man (sometimes not alone) riding a three-wheeled scooter of an unusual look. The way of travel on this device is rather original: a rider moves without touching the ground! More

Another Super Hero (save the governor, of course) has appeared in our city. This idea came to three students of St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts Alexey Kharchenko, Ruslan Petrov and Vadim Sudakov. Petersburgman is a very active young man in a cloak, with an unhealthy gleam in his eyes, who conceived to solve the city problems.... More

This unique troupe is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In the courtyard between the 7th and the 8th lines their rehearsal spot is located. There is a modest two-story house where they keep their props and rehearse. The troupe consists of 3 actors and 1 director. If they are not on tour their original minibus usually can be seen behind the garden on... More

A mystery faith of Avel the monk and his precise forecasts. Avel the monk (1757-1841) left his mark in the history of Russia by unusual and disastrous forecasts about the State Heads’ faiths, which came true to a dot. In spite of a simple peasant origin he was honored private meeting with three Russian emperors having ruled one by one. Each his... More

Live sculpture, which appeared for the first time on boulevard La-Rambla in Barcelona relatively long time ago and today is so widespread in the Western Europe, has reached St.-Petersburg. It is possible, that performances of the actors working in this genre have started earlier, but I have seen this show for the first time. The actor stands without... More

At Piskarevskii cemetery entrance there is a pond on to the left. In 60s black and white swans used to swim in this pond, as a symbol of life and death. Now there is a couple of black and a couple of white swans. The black swans are kept separately from the white ones. The white swans are called Paris and Elena, the black swans names I don’t know.... More

Kolya Vasin is a famous Beatles fan in Russia and one of the famous completists in St. Petersburg. He collects everything related to the Beatles, he started collecting in the early 60-s, he even learned English “only because it was Lennon’s language”. The most valuable item of the collection is the Beatles album signed by John Lennon for Kolya... More

Every evening and weekend “skipjacks” gather on Dvortsovaya square, sorry, I just don’t know the name of this sport using spring loaded stilts. On Dvortsovaya square you can see beginners as well as professionals, they show different tricks. The flip over three couples standing on the same stilts is not a high point. It’s really worth seeing!... More

A talented young guy – mime artist is performing with a transparent ball on Nevsky prospect and at the Split Blood Church (Savior on the blood Cathedral). He seems to have a kind of French charm, making people smile. :) More

Where magicians could be found? I say, there’s one on Basil Island. Perhaps, you’ve even met him – either in Ethnographic museum or in Lenexpo and Andreevsky market. I’m glad to introduce the potter Alexey Berensen, National Master of Russia. He’s got the capable hands, artistic attitude towards a newly-acquired job (he’s started doing pottery... More

Who is that Mikhail Bobrov in honor of whom the rollers’ race is organized? He’s a unique person, born on the 11th of august, 1923, in Petrograd. The Russian Federation veteran coach, master of sports, international arbiter, the president of the St. Petersburg Modern Pentathlon Federation, professor, the author of 60 research papers. He got 26 government... More

Igor Feodosievich Toropov is a creator, father and “perpetuum mobile” of the interactive museum-laboratory. In the “Amusing experiments study” Feodosich is Tsar and God. Enthusiast and jack-of-all-trades he created hundreds of devices, demonstrating physical laws in optics, electricity and mechanics. All these devices are handmade. He uses wires,... More