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...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Next week the horologists at Breguet, one of Switzerland's oldest watchmakers (founded in Neuchâtel in 1775), will celebrate the company's historical link to Russia with an exhibit at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Founder A.L. Breguet had a long, close relationship with the Russian ruling family, and even secured imperial warrants as watchmaker to the Czar and Russian navy. The exhibit, which runs through September 26th, features watches from private collections around the world as well as from such institutions as the Louvre...
Andrew E. Barnes ’61, the chief executive officer of the St. Petersburg Times, was named the new chair of the board that awards Pulitzer Prizes Wednesday...
After a two-year stint in the Army, and eight years as a reporter, deputy metro editor and education editor at the Washington Post, Barnes started work at the St. Petersburg Times, where he has been the chief executive officer since...
Students from St. Petersburg Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics in St. Petersburg, Russia won first place in the finals...
...Balanchine?s own training couldn?t have been more traditional, and his use of it couldn?t have been more innovative. As a child he absorbed the classical Russian ballet style at the Maryinsky Ballet School in St. Petersburg. Everything in his later career was based on that fundamental dance vocabulary, but he stretched it, opened up its gestures, added more jumps and turns, and gave it a startling new speed, clarity and sharpness of attack. He thought nothing of blending it with highland reels (Scotch Symphony, 1952) or stylized Japanese movements (Bugaku, 1963) or whatever other genre took...