Russian Travel Guide

The St. Petersburg Puppet Theater. The Road to Childhood

A strong impression received in one’s childhood is preserved in our memories like a journey into childhood. This was also true with the puppet master Yevgeny Demmeni. Having seen a puppet show at the age of five, he bore this memory with him into adult life, and made it his calling. Demmeni’s work lives on to this day. It’s a puppet theater that operates in the very center of ST. Petersburg, and for the locals, and for visitors to the city, for a hundred years, it has been a path back into childhood. Russia’s first professional puppet theater, in a new film by RTG TV.

A View from On High. The Church Architecture of Ancient Rus

A church is like a model of a perfectly harmonious, resplendent world. And those who built them tried to inspire all visitors to sense the presence of God in it. Russia’s earliest stone churches were created by Byzantine architects in the 10th and 11th centuries. They were followed by many more, designed by Russian architects who interpreted the Byzantine canons in their own way. The exterior appearance of churches is strongly influenced by political and economic changes in society. Novgorod offers a good example of this. As soon as Novgorod completed its transition from a principality to a democratically ruled republic, its majestic cathedrals gave way to small single-dome churches built by merchant communities and neighbourhood residents. Studying the story of church architecture is akin to reading the pages of a book on Russian history. During precarious historic events, suc...

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