Petersburg of Ballet. Monuments and plaques in the collection of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture

Abstract

This publication contents information about monuments and commemorative plagues in memory of famous ballet figures of Saint-Petersburg, in chronological order. There is a small essay included, about every object written with using documents and other materials from State museum of urban sculpture archive. Particular attention is devoted to «textual monuments», their art features and means of expression. Some famous Saint-Petersburg architects mostly famous by their works in commemorative plague genre, are also mentioned at this lecture.