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The competition was organized by the Committee on External Relations of St. Petersburg as part of the project “St. Petersburg and the Slavic World” from January to August 2018.
During the competition, young artists studied information about St. Petersburg and in a free manner and technique depicted their ideas about the Northern capital of Russia.
The best works selected in the hometowns of the participants were presented at an exhibition in the St. Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity from November 23 to December 10, 2018.
The authors of the 5 best works, which were determined in St. Petersburg by a professional jury of honored artists and members of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, as well as the winner in the nomination “Audience Award” got the opportunity to come to St. Petersburg.
Among the participants are secondary school students from partner cities of St. Petersburg in the Slavic countries of Europe and the Balkan Peninsula: Bulgaria (Varna), Poland (Krakow), Serbia (Kragujevac), Slovenia (Maribor) and Croatia ( Zagreb). The youngest of them is 8 years old.
Andrei Khlutkov during a meeting with delegations of winners, which were represented by both young artists and their teachers, parents or representatives of city halls participating in the competition, noted that St. Petersburg provides a very fertile ground for creative perception. Famous Russian artists Ilya Repin, Nikolai Roerich, Arkhip Kuindzhi lived and worked in our city, and the famous Academy of Arts is one of the integral parts of the St. Petersburg brand.
On behalf of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, Andrei Khlutkov thanked the guys for participating in the competition and for their interest in St. Petersburg and suggested considering the Northern capital of Russia as a place to receive a higher art education.
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The main gift for the winners was a visit to the festival of graduates of "Scarlet Sails".
In addition, today during the day they also visited the animated film studio "Mill" and the St. Petersburg ice cream factory "Petroholod". And yesterday, schoolchildren visited the Hermitage and became spectators of the Zapashny brothers show at the Great St. Petersburg State Circus.