14:48 Mix and match
Although the musical part of the International Arts Square Winter Festival has now drawn to a close, the State Russian Museum will continue to attact visitors with its contribution to the event — an enormous and quite involved exhibition.

14:38 Squaring the circle
As part of its annual “Christmas Gift” cycle of eyecatching exhibitions, the State Hermitage Museum is displaying until March a unique collection of porcelain created in St. Petersburg after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

13:39 Ringing the changes
During the Soviet-era, Russian bells rarely tolled. Now factories making bombs and ships have revived the skills needed to make new bells.