We invite You to the House-Museum of F. I. Shalyapin 13.06.2015 to the exhibition "St. Petersburg Montmartre"
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 13.06.2015 till 23.08.2015 year.
Kamennoostrovsky Avenue was often called the "Champs – Elysées of St. Petersburg", and even discussed the renaming of the French prospectus. It liked to settle intellectuals. "Easy French" Kamennoostrovskogo Avenue, located here the restaurants,the shops, a entertainment venues, a trendy architecture, reminiscent of Parisian Montmartre. The XX century brought poignancy and drama in a measured and "easy" life of the inhabitants and frequenters of the Petersburg side and Stone Islands. The first world war, revolutionary upheaval, scientific and technical discoveries, omnibuses, aeroplanes, balloons, a new pace of life… Near Kamennoostrovskogo Avenue Factory was located Meltzer, plant Langensiepen, the Women's medical Institute, Institute for experimental medicine, Institute of Electrical engineering of the Emperor Alexander III, the main mission of the automotive group "Daimler", a prominent representatives of science lived and worked there.
The other side of the life of St. Petersburg Montmartre is a sphere public entertainment: cabaret, theater of miniatures, restaurant, gardens, clubs and cinemas. The names of the "stars" and "stars" of different sizes were filled on the posters: beauty – sansonetti, foreign dancers and gymnasts. In the garden of theater "Aquarium" were held charity concerts of Varya Panina, chorus of the gypsies N. I. Shishkin. After 1918, in the Rose hall began daily of the actors of the Alexandrinsky theatre Y. M. Yuriev and E. I. Time. The management of the garden "Arcadia" is a contract for the entire summer season with a young singer F. I. Shalyapin. Artist performs here for the first time a batch of Miracle's "Tales of Hoffmann" by Offenbach (directed by M. I). In the cinema "Giant" is the artist of the academic Opera V. I. Kastorsky, in the theater "Assembly" are concerts featuring artist of Russian Opera S. A. Savina. On the stage of the Zoological garden speaks with Russian songs, accompanying himself on the balalaika, N. F. Monks, in the future one of the organizers and founders of the BDT. In the former theatre "Assembly" on a Regular street (now St. Chaikina) is opened a cinema "The Goblin", which was shown "action of the current season!", including a script written by the "Child of the carnival with the participation of I. I. Mozzhukhin and N. A. Lisenko. It is established a demonstration flights of the balloon "Arcadia". In the garden "Aquarium" balloon Technical society took to the sky three balloonist and theatrically released into the sky white doves.
Invitation card for the launch of the balloon that contains a memo on how to behave, will allow you to travel back in time and experience the atmosphere of the historic Airshow.There will be an installation of cinema in the exhibition hall and the famous arches Aquarium will take us 100 years ago. Feel the charm of the concert stage will allow presented at the exhibition of stage costumes colleagues Chaliapin bass VI Kastoria and actress E. I. Time, as well as posters, programs, photographs from the collection of the Theatre Museum and family archives Kachalova – Thieme – Totalmini.
