St Petersburg
Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke discover St Petersburg through its art and architecture, looking to see how art has been used to enhance its power and prestige.
In the final episode of their entertaining series of cultural city breaks, Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke explore St Petersburg through its dazzling art and architecture. They want to see how art has been used to enhance prestige and power in this city, ever since it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great.
Surrounded by vast palaces, gilded domes and imposing Soviet monuments, Janina and Alastair make a flying visit to their personal selection of imperial, communist and modern-day sights. They discover a city where art has always taken centre stage, from the intoxicating beauty of the state rooms at the Winter Palace to the bejewelled confections of Faberge, and from the dark tunnels where curators guarded precious artefacts during the deadly siege of the city in the Second World War to the apartment piled high with protest art painted by the outspoken 'dissident babushka'.
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Alastair and Nina visit St. Petersburg's Winter Palace
Duration: 03:48
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Janina goes underground to discover St. Petersburg's Metro art
Duration: 02:33
Music Played
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Jazz Suite No.2 鈥� Waltz 2
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Alastair Sooke |
Presenter | Janina Ramirez |
Executive Producer | Richard Bright |
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