A course of lectures on astronomy will start in Saint-Petersburg State Roerich Family Museum and Institute on March 28 at 5:00 p.m. The lecturer is Georgiy Aleksandrovich GONCHAROV, a member of International Astronomical Union (IAU), Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Fellow at Pulkovo Observatory.

The lectures of the first half-year are dedicated to concepts of modern natural science. The themes of the lectures are:

On November 26 the Museum–institute of the Roerichs was visited by artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Abisalovich Gergiev.

The festival which was held in 2008 for the first time on the initiative of a group of musicians, keen on Indian classical music, received the support of government agencies - the Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg and the Consulate General of India in St. Petersburg soon. Organizing of the festival was under the direct leadership of the Museum–institute of the Roerichs. The first festival was attended by musicians from Russia, the near abroad countries. "Sitar in St.

On October 12, 2012 in the exhibition hall, where the exhibition "Golenischev-Kutuzovs. Military valour and creative genius" is being held now, a concert of inmates of the Charitable Fund "Open World" was held. President of the Fund is ballerina Ekaterina Shchelkalova, a graduate of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet and until recently the soloist of American Ballet Theatre. The fund was established to promote the Russian ballet school and direct its energies to development of creative aptitude of children deprived of parents’ care.

Unique example of cooperation between museums was demonstrated by the Moscow State Historical Museum and St. Petersburg Museum–institute of the Roerichs. From 11 to 13 of October at the Museum–institute of the Roerichs the interactive games for children and adults were held, these games were prepared and brought by the employees of the Moscow Museum.

On October 9-11 in St. Petersburg the XII International theoretical and practical conference "Roerichs’ Heritage", dedicated to the 1150th anniversary of the Russian state, was held. The conference was held in the year of the 110th anniversary of the birth of G.N. Roerich and during the celebration of the 138th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Roerich.

Day of old men was held at the Museum–institute of the Roerichs on October 1, 2012. “The Slavic evening” was held this day for the pensioners of the Vasileostrovsky district.

Theoretical and practical conference “Information space of museum and the public order” was held on September 5–10, 2012 on the board of the motor ship “Vissarion Belinsky” within the bounds of the XIII International forum under the aegis of UNESCO “Formation of the modern information society – problems, prospects, innovations”. Rector of the Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics, Professor Alexander Dmitrievich Viktorov was member of the forum organizing committee.

Day of the first–year student of the Saving of the cultural heritage department of the Saint Petersburg State University of Service and Economics was celebrated at the Museum–institute of the Roerichs on September 4, 2012.

Meeting with Pyotr Alekseevich and Konstantin Alekseevich Konovnitsyns, descendants of the hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, general of infantry Pyotr Petrovich Konovnitsyn, took place at the Museum–institute of the Roerichs on September 7, 2012. There were the descendants of the famous poet Konstantin Konstantinovich Sluchevsky and art historian, writer Irina Eugenievna Ivanchenko at the meeting.