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Days of Culture of the Republic of Karelia will pass in St.-Petersburg on March 13 and 14 within the framework of the Agreement between the Republic of Karelia and St.-Petersburg on cooperation in trade, economic, scientific, technical, cultural and social spheres. Days of Culture are organized by the Ministry of Culture and Public Relations of the RK in association with the Official Representation of the Republic of Karelia in St.Petersburg and the Committee on Ñulture of the Government of St.-Petersburg.
Days of Ñulture of Karelia will open in the V.Mayakovsky Central City Public Library. On Friday at noon there there opens a stand exhibition of the National Library of the RK which will present books-winners of the annual republican competition Book of the Year of the Republic of Karelia from 2000 to 2007, as well as the first volume of the Encyclopedia Karelia, Gospel with illustrations of Moscow artist Myud Mechev and the catalogue album of icons of northern paintings Heavens of Zaonezhie. Presentation of Karelian publishing houses will be held there. Books of Karelian writers will be donated to the library of St.-Petersburg.
In the St.-Petersburg Palace of Nationalities there will pass the Youth Initiatives in the Sphere of Harmonization of National and Confessional Relations, Development of Civil Consent and Tolerance in the Society round table discussion.
Journey to the Country of Two Eposes exhibition will be devoted to the 160th anniversary of the first complete edition of Kalevala (2009) and the 150th anniversary of the first record of Russian bylinas in Zaonezhie (2010) will open on March 14 in the State History Museum. It represents folklore heritage of Karelia through children's art. At the exhibition there are more than 500 works of schoolchildren who participated in art competitions of the republic: drawings, dolls, hand-made books, costumes and attributes of epic heroes, as well as original ethnographic articles from the museum funds.
Concert of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Karelian State Philarmonic Society will be held in the State Academic Ñhapel. Tours of the orchestra this year are devoted to its 75th anniversary. Led by Marius Stravinsky, the orchestra's Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, the orchestra will play the Jean Sibelius' Karelia Suite (1893), one of the most significant compositions of Finnish music of the 1890s. The little-known in Russia Symphony No. 1 by Sir William Walton (1935) which has brought world-wide fame to the author, and Sergey Rakhmaninov's Concert No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra (1926) will be performed. Exclusive on its artistic features, played the most seldom of all concerts of the composer in view of its pianistic complexity, the Concert No. 4 will be played by one of the brightest Russia's musicians People's Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, soloist of Moscow State Academic Philarmonic Society Evgeny Mikhailov.
Opening of the exhibition of paintings of Karelian artists Boris Pomortsev, Valentin Chekmasov, Alexander Kashtanov and Oleg Yuntunen will precede the concert.
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