A vignette about a man who saw in the Russian landscape a scene for a grand spectacle. The conversation about the mastery of Pietro Gonzaga will turn into a lively analysis of how scenography, park, and city can come together in a single artistic statement - and what resonates with today, our view of space and ourselves in it. Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga's name is most often recalled in connection with theatrical backdrops and antique engravings, but behind this lies a much larger story. The lecture brings together the different roles of the master - scenographer, architect, landscape artist - and shows how one person managed to reassemble European Baroque for a new country and a new court culture. Listeners will be invited to view boudoirs, halls, and parks as carefully planned illusions. Perspective decorations, striking "tricks" and mise-en-scènes on stage will turn out to be direct relatives of the alleys of Pavlovsk Park, pavilions, and openings, where the viewer is also led along a pre-conceived route. A clear language of art historical narrative will connect with specific examples from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum and archival materials to create a holistic picture. A separate layer of the conversation will be a discussion of why the world created by Gonzaga is today read not as a museum attribute, but as a living source of visual solutions. Club participants will be able to compare his techniques with 20th-century architecture, modernist experiments, exhibition design, and media installations. It will be important to see how the idea of "total scenography" anticipates modern approaches to how we organize urban space, exhibitions, and even our own interiors. The format of the meeting is designed for those interested in architecture, theater, art history, and the connections between different forms of creativity. The conversation is structured as a joint reflection of curators and researchers: Ekaterina Orekhova, Ilya Pechenkina, and Ivan Chechota. This is a rare chance to see in the familiar decorations of St. Petersburg the legacy of Italian Baroque.