hidden Art festivals ARTS FESTIVALS, festivals of achievements in different kinds of art. As a rule, they are regularly held in most towns and some villages of the Leningrad Oblast. Since 1980 one of the oldest oblast festivals “Teatralnaya Vesna” (“Theatre Spring”)... more

hidden Izvara, a country estate Izvara, a country estate (the village of Izvara, the Volosovo district). Firstly (since 1747) the grange was owned to Count K.E. Sivers. In 1872 St. Petersburg lawyer K.F. Roerich bought the estate with a stone manor-house built in the English... more

hidden Roerich, Nikolay Konstantinovich (1874 - 1947), an artist NICHOLAS ROERICH (Rerikh, Nikolai Konstantinovich) (1874–1947), artist, archeologist, traveler. In the period 1893-97 he studied simultaneously at the Law Department of St.Petersburg University and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in the class of... more

hidden The museum-estate of N.K. Roerich The museum-estate of N.K. Roerich (the Volosovo District, the village of Izvara), a branch of "The Museum Agency". It was founded in the former estate of N.K. Roerich's parents in 1984. The first 26 years of the artist's life are connected with... more

hidden Volosovo District VOLOSOVO DISTRICT, a part of Leningrad Oblast. Area: 2680.5 sq. km. Population: 46,900. Adm. center: Volosovo Town. The district comprises Kikerino urban settlement, and 202 rural localities. It borders Kingisepp, Lomonosov, Gatchina, and Luga... more