Visit of fourteen representatives of the cultural institutions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia.  The group included five student composers from St. Petersburg Conservatory (Katherina Blinova, Svetlana Nesterova, Maria Petrenko, Anton Tanonov, and Nikolay Mazhara); Trio “Sound Ways” (composer Alexander Radvilovich, violinist Alexandra Savina, and clarinetist Arthur Lukomiansky);  Piano Duo “Philharmonica” (Natalia Katonova and Dmitry Bystrov);  musicologists Mikhail Bialik (St. Petersburg conservatory) and Svetlana Sigida (Moscow conservatory);  a State Hermitage Museum curator Anna Konivets, and a theater art historian Marina Kornakova.  “The Boston University Days in Russia” included series of concerts, lectures, and discussions.