The exhibition tells how the city on the Neva became a place of formation and a source of the main themes of Georgy Sviridov's music. Photographs and archival materials come together to tell the story of the composer's Leningrad years and his personal myth about Petersburg. The focus is on the period when the future master lived in Leningrad for more than two decades and made the journey from a young provincial to a mature professional. Here, in the atmosphere of conservatory tradition, he absorbed the ideas of the Petersburg composer school, which grew out of the legacy of Rimsky-Korsakov and his students. The city turned out to be not just a backdrop for Sviridov, but a coordinate grid along which taste, hearing, and artistic discipline were structured. A separate narrative thread is connected to his fascination with Blok's poetry. It eventually became the heart of his creative world, where Petersburg-Petrograd transforms into an image inseparable from reflections on Russia and the fate of the people in the tragic 20th century. Musical cycles and ideas dedicated to this image sound here as a context that helps to reinterpret the biography - with its tense searches and inner composure. The exhibition consists of photographs that capture key milestones of the Leningrad period: the environment, cultural milieu, and rhythm of musical life. Materials from museum and archival collections, as well as family collections, show how the composer's circle of communication was formed and how his self-perception changed. In the end, a visual portrait of a person and a city, connected by a long and complex creative dependency, emerges. Our website features the current program of St. Petersburg.