Original hats and slippers of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky are presented at the “First Position” exhibition. Russian ballet”. According to socialbites.ca correspondent, the exhibition opened on February 21 at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg.
On Tchaikovsky’s fabric slippers, which are hidden behind glass, embroideries with birds on berry branches are clearly visible.
The reason for the exhibition was the 350th anniversary of the Russian ballet celebrated on 17 February. Exhibition, St. It includes more than a thousand exhibits from 40 museums, archives and libraries in St. Petersburg, Moscow and other parts of Russia. These include paintings by Mikhail Vrubel and Zinaida Serebryakova, the tutus used by Galina Ulanova for the Dying Swan party, personal belongings by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Agrippina Vaganova and Alexander Benois, Russian Seasons posters, archive videos and photographs.
The exhibition was organized by the Manege Central Exhibition Hall and the Planet9 Bureau with the support of the Presidential Cultural Initiatives Fund.
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