Saint-Petersburg 2003. 300 years of great city

Privatisation. The contribution of large business to culture revival.

«A heavy heritage of a socialism»: an economic and social situation, moods, events. Revival of some pre-revolutionary traditions and institutes.

City restoration after blockade

The Renaissance: on the threshold of «the Leningrad case».

Blockade of Leningrad

Life and moods in a society

War with «opium for the people».(War with religion)

Cultural "cleanings"

The big Terror

Free medicine and general formation. Activity of trade unions

The beginning of the Big Terror

Plunder and cultural heritage destruction.

Industrialisation and new intelligency.

Petrograd renamed to Leningrad

Military communism. Carrying over of capital to Moscow. «Red terror»

Proletariat dictatorship. Internal policy of the new power in the field of culture, educations and religions.

July crisis of the power. New Provisional government. October revolution.

February revolution. Nikolay II renunciation