Peter The Great

2 10, 2023

Conference-concert “I love you, creation of Peter’s”

2023-10-26T18:21:59+02:00October 2nd, 2023|Categories: Meet Russia, Peter The Great, Russian House News|Tags: , , |

On 28.09 the conference-concert “I love you, creation of Pierre” dedicated to the 320th anniversary of Saint Petersburg took place at the Russian House in Brussels. Maestro Andrei Chevtchouk, conductor and choir director, who has worked for over twenty years in France, Belgium, Germany and other European countries, as well as in Russia as a conductor of orchestras and theater and festival choirs, artistic director of festivals and choirs, presented to the public the beautiful “capital of the North”, which since its creation attracted many architects who contributed to its beauty. Particular attention was paid to the musical history of [...]

14 09, 2023

Conference-concert “I love you, creation of Peter”

2023-09-15T12:05:02+02:00September 14th, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , |

Dedicated to the 320th anniversary of St. Petersburg 28.09 at 7:00 p.m. at the Russian House in Brussels Maestro Andrei Chevtchouk, conductor and choir director, who has worked for more than twenty years in France, Belgium, Germany and other European countries, as well as in Russia as a conductor of orchestras and choirs of theaters and festivals, artistic director of festivals and choirs, will tell you about the musical history of "the capital of the North", its influence on the musical life of the Europe since the 18th century and links between European and Russian composers and performers. The baritone [...]

21 06, 2023

Virtual tour of the “Summer Palace of Peter I in St. Petersburg”

2023-06-21T12:27:50+02:00June 21st, 2023|Categories: , |Tags: , , , |

Our best videos Museum Day St. Petersburg, the Summer Palace of Peter the Great, took place at the virtual site of the Russian House in Brussels. The Summer Palace was built for the Russian Tsar Peter Alekseevich in 1710-1712 by the Italian architect Domenico Trezzini. Architects and sculptors from Western Europe took part in the design of the facades and interiors of the palace: Andreas Schluter, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Leblon. After the death of Peter I, the Summer Palace was never rebuilt, although some changes took place in the design of the interiors. To this day, the layout and appearance of the [...]

21 06, 2023

Russian House in Brussels video project “Peter the Great’s Belgian Roads

2023-06-21T09:40:51+02:00June 21st, 2023|Categories: |Tags: |

Our best videos For Belgium's National Day The project introduces viewers to the history of Peter the Great's journey to Europe in 1716-1717. This second trip is less known than the “great embassy” of 1687-98, which influenced the formation of the personality of the future first Russian emperor and the cardinal directions of his policy. And this is understandable: Peter’s second visit was, as it would be called today, a “working visit.” But it was then that many vectors of Russia’s interaction with the leading countries of the Old Continent were determined. This video project tells about that part of [...]

12 10, 2022

Both sailor and carpenter. Peter the Great in Russian Artistic Culture. Virtual tour

2023-02-26T20:12:48+01:00October 12th, 2022|Categories: Exhibitions, History & Memory, Peter The Great|Tags: , , |

On October 12, 2022, as part of the cycle “Art talk with the Russian Museum”, a virtual tour of the exhibition “Both Navigator and Carpenter. Peter the Great in Russian Artistic Culture. The exhibition, dedicated to the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great, took place at the Russian Museum in June-September 2022. It consisted of works of painting, graphics, sculpture, crafts and numismatics, the plot of which is the activity and personality of Peter I. The exhibition includes 150 works from the 18th - early 20th century from the collection of the Russian Museum, [...]

22 09, 2022

Virtual tour of the “Summer Palace of Peter I in St. Petersburg”

2023-02-24T22:41:12+01:00September 22nd, 2022|Categories: Exhibitions, Peter The Great, Russian House News|Tags: , , |

On September 22, as part of the “Conversations about Art with the Russian Museum” cycle, a virtual tour of one of the oldest buildings in St. Petersburg, the Summer Palace of Peter the Great, took place at the virtual site of the Russian House in Brussels. The Summer Palace was built for the Russian Tsar Peter Alekseevich in 1710-1712 by the Italian architect Domenico Trezzini. Architects and sculptors from Western Europe took part in the design of the facades and interiors of the palace: Andreas Schluter, Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Leblon. After the death of Peter I, the Summer Palace was never rebuilt, [...]

26 05, 2022

Virtual tour in Russian, French and Arabic “Peter the Great. Persons and Personnalities”

2023-03-03T16:50:32+01:00May 26th, 2022|Categories: Exhibitions, Peter The Great, Russian House News|Tags: , , |

To the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great 26 May 2022 the State Russian museum broadcasted a virtual tour “Peter the Great. Figures and Individuals”. Representatives of more than 20 countries - Europe, Middle East, Central and South-East Asia, South America – took part in this event. Svetlana Biryukova, the art historian of the Russian Museum, led the audience through the halls of the exhibition “Peter the Great. Figures and Individuals” that had been created by the Department of the Russian School of Painting (Eighteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Centuries). Svetlana Biryukova introduced the visitors [...]

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