30th November 2015
St Andrew’s Day will be celebrated in St Petersburg, Moscow and other cities across Russia on 30 November. Both Moscow and St Petersburg have hosted annual St Andrew’s Day balls for many years and will do so again this year. The Scotland and Russia relationship is full of rich history and culture dating back over […]
27th November 2015
History is all around us. From the buildings that adorn our towns and cities to the relics of past civilisations. These objects make up our cultural heritage – providing an insight into what went before us and linking us back to our past. But work is needed to ensure the preservation of historical icons, for […]
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23rd November 2015
As an important part of our annual Remembrance events in Russia every November, the British Embassy Moscow and the Consulate General in St Petersburg always visits the cemeteries in North West Russia where British and allied servicemen died during World War One, World War Two and the Allied Intervention period of 1918-19. To mark the […]
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11th November 2015
We held our annual Remembrance Sunday service in St Petersburg on Sunday 8 November. This is always an important event which brings together the British community as well as church members from Russia and other countries to honour and remember those who were killed in World War One and Two, as well as later conflicts. […]
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9th November 2015
The city of Pskov, which lies some 300kms south of St Petersburg, lost nine of its citizens when the Russian aircraft crashed in Egypt on 31 October. The flight had taken off from Sharm el-Sheikh earlier that morning en route to St Petersburg. All 224 passengers and crew on board the flight were killed. This […]
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