The Festival was
founded in the year of the 100th anniversary of Sergei Diaghilev’s Les Saisons
Russes in St Petersburg, which had given to the great impresario of the XX
century the initial start and inspiration. The mission of the festival is to
continue the line of Sergei Diaghilev and facilitate the cultural exchange of
all new ideas in the arts between Russia and the rest of the world. During the 4
years since then the Festival has become one of the major cultural events in the
city.