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This place
The history of Victory Park on Moskovsky Prospekt began on October 7th 1945. On that day a small group of the city’s residents arrived at an area surround by a few roads, where they would lay the first stones of what would become a living monument to the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War), and a symbol of joy and life. The park was constructed for the enjoyment of those who emerged victorious from the horrors of war and survived the siege of Leningrad, and of future generations.
Today, the park is divided into several different areas. The southwest area of the park, for example, is designated as a memorial area, whilst the park’s central zone bordering its main path and its northwest part together form an area for relaxation. The park is inhabited by up to 60 different species of trees and bushes, and every spring approximately 90 thousand flowers are planted in the park.
Interesting fact: At the beginning of the 20th century, the area where Victory Park is now located lay on the very edge of St. Petersburg and was called Syzranskoye Field. In 1931, Brick Factory No. 1 was opened in the South West part of this field. All of the ponds that you can find in Victory Park today are former pits from which the workers of this factory once dug clay for brick production.
This day
January 15th 1890 saw the premier performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Sleeping Beauty” with staging by Marius Petipa. Petipa and Tchaikovsky met through the director of the Imperial Theatres, Ivan Vsevolozhskiy, who had the idea of presenting the ballet in the style of French fairy-tale. Vsevolozhskiy wrote the ballet’s libretto, designed its unbelievably beautiful costumes and became almost one of its co-authors. The show achieved great success; it was a true miracle of stagecraft born of the genius of its creators.
Sleeping Beauty was at the same time both entirely traditional and absolutely new. Its music was written according to a clear plan laid out by its chief choreographer which indicated not only the numbers of bars each piece of music should have but also the character of sounds to be produced at each moment. This plan did not bind Tchaikovsky’s hands completely however; the ballet still retained his symphonic stylings. Sleeping Beauty’s dances featured a carefully balanced blend of pantomime and classical dance which took place against a backdrop of striking and spectacular scenery. In the 20th century the success of Sleeping Beauty inspired a new wave of ballet performances composed, as in the work of Tchaikovsky, Petipa and Vsevolozhskiy, in the spirit of past eras and distant cultures.
