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On October 17 through 24, 2010, within the framework of the program of St.Petersburg Government to implement the state policy of Russian Federation concerning the compatriots abroad, educational programs on history and culture of St.Petersburg and Russia for our compatriots living abroad were run in St.Petersburg.

The project aims to strengthen the ties of compatriots with their historic homeland, and acquaint with the history and culture of Russia and St.Petersburg.

Educational programs were run on the following topics:
• Petersburg – a window into Europe
• Literary St.Petersburg
• Theatrical Petersburg
• Musical Petersburg.

Participants of the program were 100 young compatriots from 14 countries: Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine.
The country delegations, invited to participate in educational programs, were formed with the interaction with diplomatic missions of Russian Federation abroad.

In addition to classroom sessions, the participants met with the young St.Petersburg poets and musicians, and a master class of novice filmmaker was held for them.

During the excursions, they visited the sites and museums, most significant for the history of St.Petersburg. The pupils visited the Apartment-Museum of Alexander Pushkin, Fountain House of Anna Akhmatova, the Russian Museum and Mikhailovskiy Castle, the Museum of Theatrical and Musical Arts, the Necropolis of Artists at the Alexander Nevskiy Abbey, Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoe Selo.

The evenings spent at the Bolshoi Drama Theater, Capella, Philharmonic Hall, Theatre Baltic House, Mariinsky Theatre, Jazz Philharmonic Hall, opened for the youth the nowaday theatrical and musical Petersburg.

Source: Committee for External Relations of St.Petersburg