The first wife of Sergei Dovlatov - about St. Petersburg today and forty years ago Asya Pekurovskaya, the ex -wife of Sergei Dovlatov, the lover of Vasily Aksenov and the muse of Leningrad the sixties, visited Petersburg for the first time in several decades.

“Literacy is not only philologists with glasses”: why adult courses of the Russian language Two years ago, the “literacy center” appeared in St. Petersburg: here adults are taught the rules of punctuation and spelling. He was discovered by philologists who caught themselves thinking that it is sometimes difficult for them to understand a huge number of rules and norms.

Zapesotsky is going to deduct 150 students for "behavior" in social networks At the end of March, a replacement of the rector of St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise appeared on the official website of SPbGUP that in 2014 the university was going to deduct 150 “weak -hagged” students (three -leggings, explained in the record).

Kurekhin's prize was given for musical performance with music of the 1920s and a project on the connections of the East and West The main headquarters of the Hermitage presented awards to laureates of the fifth prize in the field of contemporary art named after Sergei Kurekhin. The holder of the Grand Prix was the performance of Peter Aid "Reconstruction of utopia." The premiere of the concert dedicated to the reconstruction of the Soviet musical era of the 20s took place in May 2012.

A single ticket to Crimea may appear by the summer The Ministry of Transport of Russia plans to introduce a single ticket for several types of transport to Crimea by the summer of this year. He must include travel by train, buses and ferries to Crimean cities. When buying a railway ticket to Krymsk, Anapa or Novorossiysk, a passenger can also buy a bus ticket to the Kerch crossing, pay the ferry and the bus itself to Simferopol, Sevastopol, Alushta and Feodosia.

April 25 in St. Petersburg will take place on the off -site day of the donor On April 25, a mobile blood transfusion point will work in the House of Jewish Culture of the Esod. The action is organized by the Donor Fund and the Jewish Volunteer Service "Gilel". All donors will receive a light breakfast, as well as 900 rubles and souvenirs for blood donated.

Groups from Kyiv and Donetsk will not come to the festival of Russian -language theaters in St. Petersburg The National Academic Theater of the Russian Drama named after Lesya Ukrainka from Kyiv, which was supposed to open the festival of Russian theaters of the near abroad “Meetings in Russia”, will not come to St. Petersburg. This was reported on the website of the Baltic House Theater.

“Anyone who does not fit the role of a clerk is expelled”: for which students are punished in St. Petersburg State University The rector of the Humanitarian University of Trade Unions announced that this year 150 students plan to expel from the university. The reason can be both defiant and behavior on social networks, including in the public “overheard to St. Petersburg State University”.

In 2014, Petersburg may be left without honorary citizens The nomination for the title of honorary citizen of St. Petersburg film director Alexander Sokurov, People's Artist of the USSR Edita Piekhi and the head of the State Academic Chapel of Vladislav Chernushenko may be unliped. According to the new version of the Law on Honorary Citizens, only organizations with branches in St. Petersburg have the right to nominate candidates.

In St. Petersburg, they did not allow the march in defense of the media in the center All applications for the "Marshal of Pravda" in support of the Russian media in the city center planned by the St. Petersburg opposition on April 13, the committee on legality and law and order was rejected . Boris Vishnevsky Deputy of the Zachs from the Yabloko party We were offered to go to Polyustrovsky Park. We will not go there.