Lectures of the Week: Kafka, Sex and Silver Age “Paper” presents a selection of lectures and seminars, which are held at universities, private educational centers, independent bookstores, cinema halls, business incubators and all kinds of “free spaces”. In the coming week: the capitals of contemporary art, the history of the life of Nikolai Gumilyov and the features of sex in Russia. January 14, Tuesday "London.

Gifts of the Magi were brought to Petersburg The gifts of the Magi, one of the most important Christian shrines, will be exhibited in the temple of the Kazan icon of the Mother of God of the Voskresensky Novodevichy Convent from January 14 to 17. Volunteers will be engaged in coordination of pilgrims, in addition, ten priests will be on duty in lines.

How the Kozitsky plant burned on Vasilievsky Island On the 7th line of the Vasilievsky Island, firefighters extinguish the Kozitsky plant. About 30 people were evacuated from the seven -story administrative building, there are no victims and victims. About 50 square meters on the third floor were covered with fire, the fire was assigned the second level of complexity. Now the fire is localized , but employees of the Ministry of Emergencies continue to work on the territory of the plant.

“Beatrice walked with an inconspicuous chainsaw and screamed”: students about the action by Kazan and arrest On Christmas Eve, two young people and a girl, the participants in the Blue Horseman art movement, went to the Kazan Cathedral with bandaged faces and a chainsaw. They devoted this action to St. Origen. The police did not appreciate the power of the performance and suspected the guys of insulting the feelings of believers.

Exhibition "World of sharks. Deep immersion "in the Military Historical Museum Wide-format photo and video materials, a two-meter mouth of the extinct shark of Megalodon, a collection of jaws and teeth, models of sharks of different types in real size and materials from the filming of the famous horror film of the jaw- the international exhibition “ World of Shark is operating in the St. Petersburg Museum of Artillery. Deep immersion .

Russian Railways organizes car delivery from Moscow to St. Petersburg "from address to address" From January 10, through the "Russian Railways" you can deliver the car "from address to address". The service is valid only for the transportation of vehicles between St. Petersburg and Moscow, the press service of the Federal Passenger Company OJSC reports.

"People lay in seven tiers": as Petropavlovki are looking for victims of red terror During the civil war, the Peter and Paul Fortress was one of the places where the Bolsheviks shot convicts: White Guards, counter -revolutionaries, class enemies and anyone who could be detained "by mistake." The mass graves of the victims of red terror, which were buried here, on the hare island, did not touch eighty years - and only recently archaeologists took up excavations in the fortress.