The structure of the oligarch Vekselberg is preparing to expand the Faberge Museum due to demolition and new construction on the territory of the Shuvalovsky Palace. The private museum became crowded in the old walls on Fontanka. The upcoming expansion is explained by the intention to bring attendance to 5 thousand people per day (for comparison: the Hermitage has 8-10 thousand). They did without soap Previously, the House of Friendship housed the Shuvalovsky Palace.

An armed attack on a man in Putin’s mask: many versions, there is little chance. Six months ago, a road worker from St. Petersburg, 45-year-old Vladimir Ivanytyenko began to go to protest. He was well remembered by Putin’s mask to participants in mass street performances. And on the eve of the New Year, they attacked Ivanutenko. Serious stab wounds did not lead to death only because of the mistake of the attackers-they did not hurt the heart.

The oldest in Russia and the world famous clowning theater for its 50th anniversary risks finally to be on the street. The jubilee for itself 2018, the Lyudeev troupe met in the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg, losing a lawsuit against the owner of the Tolstoy Square TRK, where the clown-Mim theater is located.

New Year's round dates are invisible. This happened with the 240th anniversary of Emperor Alexander I, whose anniversary almost no one remembered. “The Sphinx, unsolved to the grave,” as Peter Vyazemsky called him, was brought up as a republican and could become a model of an enlightened monarch. Instead, he proved the futility of autocracy. Favorite grandson, unloved son Until 1777, the name Alexander was not common among Russian tsars.