May 01, 2016

Travel Notes


Ticket prices for Petergof, the spectacular tsarist park and palace grounds outside St. Petersburg famous for its fountains, will increase 50 percent this year. After the park starts its summer fountain season on April 23, the full admission price for foreign visitors will jump to R700 (around $10). The price for Russian citizens will rise from R300 to R450.

Moscow has restored the giant haut-relief by Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich representing the Soviet people, which was boarded up in the 1960s and forgotten in a pavilion of VDNKh, the Moscow park dedicated to glorifying Soviet achievements. The massive work, which depicts some 1,500 people, was uncovered in the summer of 2014 during restoration work in the park, decades after it was considered lost.

The work was hidden away under Khrushchev for not being in tune with “the new Soviet aesthetic.”


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