The Presidential Library – a media partner of the international festival "BOOK LIGHTHOUSE OF PETERSBURG"

February 12-14, 2021 St. Petersburg will host an international festival-holiday for all lovers of literature, poetry and music THE BOOK LIGHTHOUSE OF PETERSBURG in the ON-SOUND format. The Presidential Library stands in as the media partner of the event.

The program of the festival is implemented in a hybrid format (physical-digital), which, during the period of restrictions associated with the pandemic, makes it possible for writers, poets, musicians from different parts of the world to actively participate, to include in the organization a large number of physical and virtual venues from different organizations, wide coverage readers of St. Petersburg, Russia and the world.

Each of the three days of the festival will be dedicated to a specific theme:

February 12 - "DISCOVER YOURSELF". Prose, poetry and music about yourself and your life, philosophical searches and life values, deep feelings and research of the soul.

February 13 - "HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS WORLD IS". Texts, music and meanings about the pristine and unique beauty of the surrounding world.

February 14 - "ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE...". Works of love marking Valentine's Day. The highest crystallization of feelings in texts, sounds and meanings in any language.

More than 100,000 participants will join about 100 events. Live broadcasts of all meetings will be available on the festival's YouTube channel every day from 12 to 24 hours. An interactive form of participation is possible. Everyone will have opportunity to ask questions to the speakers. Please, register on the festival’s website, get the program, choose the topics of interest and join the broadcast on time.

Alexander Tsypkin, Evgeny Vodolazkin, Andrey Kurpatov, Dina Rubina, Dmitry Bykov, Mikhail Veller, Alexandra Marinina, Oleg Roy, Semyon Altov, Bronislav Vinogrodsky, Yakov Gordin, Alexander Usanin, Alexey Slapovsky, Vladimir Khokhlev, Nikolai Yutanov, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Pavel Alekseev, Denis Dragunsky and others have already confirmed their participation in the festival.