Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II (left) and St.-Peterburg Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev take part in the opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II, flanked by St.-Peterburg Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev (left) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko (right), takes part in the opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II, flanked by St.-Peterburg Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev (left) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko (right), takes part in the opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
People visit the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II (cetre) and St.-Peterburg Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev (left) take part in the opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II (right), St.-Peterburg Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev (left) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko (second from the left) take part in the opening ceremony of the exposition headlined '300 Years of St.-Peterburg Culture', which was staged in Gostinny Dvor ('Merchants Yard') shopping centre.
St.-Petersburg Mayor Vladimir Yakovlev (left) and Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Valentina Matviyenko (right) attend the opening ceremony of the exposition '300 Year of St.-Petersburg Culture'. The event took place in the Gostiny Dvor ('Merchant Yard') trade centre.
Lyudmila Narusova, widow of the late St.Petersburg governor Anatoly Sobchak and representative of the Russian republic of Tyva legislature in the Federation Council (upper house of parliament), attends the opening ceremony of the exhibition staged in Moscow to mark 300-year anniversary of St.Petersburg.