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The interactive project presents the biography and creative work of Dante Alighieri with the help of 13 characters from The Divine Comedy, with whom the Italian poet somehow dealt in real life.

This virtual longread project demonstrates the unique multi-century culture of the Semey Old Believers from the Zabaikalye Region with the help of web technologies as a part of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of archpriest Avvakum’s birth.

The hall of virtual tours Gogol’s City is an online museum consisting of seven spaces dedicated to the interpretation of Gogol in Russian avant-garde of the 1920s. It’s not possible to scroll through the Gogol’s City on the website. It is entered by link at an appointed hour. Visitors and the guide come via their computers and are present in the hall as avatars.

The National Gallery of London posted in the Internet for the general public the videos for 5-minute meditation session through viewing the famous paintings in slow looking mode. 7 works have already been added to the site.

We invite you to go on the virtual walking tour of St. Petersburg of the Nabokov youth times, turn to the mansions construction history in the late 19th – early 20th centuries and admire their unique architecture.

A project in virtual reality where it is possible to see 17 samples of Russian art previously lost but recreated in VR, listen to multimedia stories about the fate of the masterpieces.

Higher educational (Bestuzhev) Courses for women at St. Petersburg State University are an important step in the women's education development in Russia. They were established in the fall of 1878, and at the beginning of 1919 became part of the Petrograd University. The historian Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin was appointed the first Director of the Courses — hence the unofficial name "Bestuzhev. You can walk through the halls of the Bestuzhev Courses Library online.

Photos of Saint Petersburg to which photos of Leningrad under the Siege, facts from the city life during that period, fragments of archive audio recordings are added using the augmented reality technology.

In the TASS special project one can familiarize oneself with ten most horrible and big monsters from the Slavic, Caucasian, Finno-Ugrian, Turkic, Tungusic and Manchurian mythology.

If you want to know your genealogic tree, find historical photos, get information about those who were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", you need to contact the state archives of St. Petersburg.