The Organization The Armenians of St. Petersburg presented Armenian culture at the festival The Imperial Gardens of Russia

The VIII international festival of
garden art and landscape architecture
"Imperial Gardens of Russia" is held
In St. Petersburg in the Mikhailovsky garden.

The Armenian culture was presented on 13th of june,

as part of the program of the festival.

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Alexander Nazarov

At the beginning of the program,
The Chairman of the Regional public organization
"The Armenians of St. Petersburg" Alexander Nazarov

welcomed the audience and read the poem "Armenia"

of St. Petersburg poet Sergei Gorodetsky.

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Maxim Khachaturian

Then, the audience was shown a
theatre-musical composition "Letters from Armenia",
directed by Dmitry Fetisov, with the participation

of an actress Veronica Tretyakova

and a saxophonist Maxim Khachaturian.

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Veronica Tretyakova, Dmitry Fetisov

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State Russian Museum holds

the festival "The Imperial Gardens of Russia" since 2008.

The theme of the festival of the year 2015

is "Gardens of the Great silk Road".

Regional public organization "The Armenians of St. Petersburg”

participates in the festival

by the invitation of the State Russian Museum.

English translation by Alexander Ignatiev, Photo report Lilith O'riordan