A fairy-tale city made of ice grew up in the Peter and Paul Fortress. The city on the Neva hosts the KronshLed festival. This year it was dedicated to family values and iconic places of St. Petersburg.
Here are the cathedrals – St. Isaac’s and Kazan, and the spire of the Peter and Paul Fortress, and the Rostral columns. The sculptors captured both the fast-moving Sapsan and the high-speed catamaran that sails from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt.
And this composition is called “Through the Ages. St. Petersburg is a city of the future.” Its author, Artyom Karamyshev, presented old and new Petersburg in the form of an arch, connecting them with bridges.
In total there are 14 huge compositions – six meters each. 40 sculptors from different cities of Russia, as well as from Kazakhstan, worked on them. These are world champions, winners and prize-winners of international ice and snow sculpture championships and competitions.
Each master has his own handwriting. Thus, a sculptor from Kazakhstan offers to look at St. Petersburg from the terrace of a high-rise building together with these lovers sitting in a restaurant. Or you can just climb onto the roof, like these two cats. They were created by a sculptor from Yekaterinburg Matvey Vovaev.
All compositions are located in a special tent. The temperature here is maintained from minus five to minus ten degrees. Sculptors worked under the same conditions. 200 tons of lake ice were brought from afar for them. It is crystal clear and has a blue tint. This is why he is appreciated.
Another highlight of the exhibition is a quest for children. They are asked to find all the cats created by the sculptors.
