The Educational Bridge Project’s fourteenth annual Russian-American festival took place November 4-14, 2008. The festival featured representatives of the two greatest cultural and artistic institutions of Russia, the State Hermitage Museum and the Mariinsky Theater, both from the imperial city of St. Petersburg.

Festival highlights included:

November 2008

  • Hermitage Today: A Legacy of Tsar Peter's Reforms, for the students of the Boston University College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Writing Program
  • Winter Palace: From Katherine the Great to Present Day, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University.
  • The Hermitage Today:  Collections, Exhibits, Plans, at the Lynn Zabota Adult Day Care.