Yesterday, when the issue was being typed up, sad news came: the well-known and beloved St. Petersburg composer Andrei Petrov had passed away. In early February, Andrei Pavlovich was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Military Medical Academy with a massive ischemic stroke. And although, according to the doctors, the condition of the 75-year-old patient remained extremely serious, we did not want to believe that he was leaving us until the last moment.

Alexander Gorodnitsky: no help came again Last week, Alexander Gorodnitsky presented his new book of poems and songs, “Divination by Palm,” in his hometown. After which, according to the already established tradition, he answered questions from Novaya Gazeta. – Alexander Moiseevich, one of the songs included in the book is dedicated to the memory of Anna Yashunskaya, who for many years headed the amateur song club “Meridian”.

On the seventh anniversary of the arrest of Yuri Shutov and four and a half years after the start of court hearings in this scandalous case, the process finally reached its final stage. The announcement of the verdict against Shutov himself and almost two dozen of his accomplices began. They started reading the verdict yesterday, but one day was not enough for this; they will most likely finish this Friday, February 17th.

The major troubles of two bailiffs of the Primorsky district - Maxim Bogatyuk and Yana Gorvat, as well as their friend - a dental technician from the 33rd city clinic Lev Yamukov - ended with a suspended sentence. Bogatyuk (now working as a legal consultant at the Neskuchny Sad firm) was found guilty of taking a bribe, and Gorvat (still continuing his career as a bailiff) and Yamukov were found to be accomplices.

In this story, already tragic (see NG No. 71 for last year), a new, no less terrible turn has recently emerged. The family of Leonid Airapetyan, who survived Stalin’s exile as a child, and Azerbaijani pogroms in adulthood while living in Baku, today is faced with local, St. Petersburg non-humans.

The city government approved the concept for the development of the territory of the western part of Vasilyevsky Island (in other words, the concept of alluvium) at the end of June. However, in the databases containing decisions made by city authorities, there are no traces of this most important document, from the point of view of residents of Vasilievsky.

The day before yesterday, the too-long competition for projects for the development of a historical territory in the very center of St. Petersburg - the island of New Holland - finally ended. On behalf of the local jury, Governor Valentina Matvienko and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev and on behalf of the federal center, the head of the Federal Property Management Agency Valery Nazarov congratulated the British architect Lord Norman Foster on his victory.

The St. Petersburg jury returned a guilty verdict to these four unanimously - they were so unanimous for the first time in the entire existence of a jury trial in the city on the Neva. Four young men, two of whom were minors, were united by one crime - the murder of a fellow teenager, committed with extreme cruelty just to take possession of... a computer game console. True, the path of two of this criminal quartet turned out to be much more eventful.