St. Petersburg has always lived a little differently. Here, high society does not begin with a grand entrance, nor end with a photographer's flash. It lives in the details: in how the table is laid at a charity evening in the Kochneva mansion, in who exactly takes the box at the Mariinsky on the opening night of the season, in the coat worn by the one woman everyone here knows but no one names aloud.
This is precisely why the St. Petersburg desk of GetCelebrity.com is more than a geographic expansion. It is an attempt to capture a particular kind of society chronicle — observant, understated, yet keenly attentive to what happens between the lines.
The summer of 2026 hands us several occasions at once. Gamma Festival again gathers those for whom electronic music long ago ceased to be a subculture and became part of the everyday rhythm of life. VK Fest is a universe of its own, where media, music and audience meet in a format hard to call merely a concert. Afisha Picnic proves once more that the St. Petersburg audience knows how to be discerning and open at the same time.
SPBILF — the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum — is an altogether different register, yet no less rewarding as portraiture: who came, who they spoke with, what it means. Igor Butman's jazz festival and DreamFest add to this summer puzzle the very thing the city always lacks in winter — air, and improvisation.
We will be here. Watching, listening, talking — and writing about those who shape the St. Petersburg season from within.