On February 1, 2024, Timofey Yevseyev Ethnic Museum of the Mari El Republic in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El, held the 17th Yevseyev Lecture, a scholarship & practice conference. Topic: “The Museum and Technologies: Changes, Challenges, Trends.” Tatiana, a member of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg, is director of St. Michael’s … [Read more...]
Church choirs co-perform in St. Petersburg
On January 13, 2024, Mikael Agricola Choir directed by Darya Shkurlyatyeva from the Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, traveled to St. Petersburg. Together with the choir and bell ensemble of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, they closed the season of Christmas song. The program included Christmas songs, instrumental versions of … [Read more...]
ELCIR commemorates war victims on Day of Remembrance and Sorrow
On June 22, 2023, St. Petersburg together with all Russia remembers the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. On this day, the city’s residents visit Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery to commemorate the war victims. About 420,000 civilians and 50,000 soldiers of the Leningrad Front were buried in the cemetery’s 186 mass graves. During the … [Read more...]
Rev. Petrov and Tatiana Ryumina present book as St. Michael’s Lutheran Church celebrates anniversaries
On December 11, 2022, St. Michael’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg marked the 290th anniversary of its establishment and 30 years since its revival. The celebration gathered Lutherans, evangelical Christians, descendants of St. Michael’s historical parishioners, and workers of museum communities. The festival culminated in the … [Read more...]
St. Michael’s Church perpetuates memory of St. Petersburg pastor
The museum of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church of St. Petersburg has been receiving more information about one of its former pastors, Rev. Arnold Frischfeldt (1874-1937) who started serving St. Michael’s church in 1915, later served St. Catherine’s church and taught at Leningrad Theological Seminary. During the Stalinist repression, he was put under … [Read more...]