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The official history of the St. Petersburg brand, the holiday of graduates " Scarlet Sails”, has 12 years in an updated format - after its revival in 2005. He could soon celebrate a half-century anniversary - if the night extravaganza created in 1968 had not been closed in 1979 for a long quarter of a century.

The first "sails"

According to the official version, the history of the holiday began in 1968, but in 1979 it ceased to exist. In 2005, the show was revived again and even included in the register of world event tourism and recommended for visiting in 20 European countries.

Discussions are still ongoing about who and when invented it and why it was closed in the late 1970s. According to one version, the only holiday in the Soviet Union for school graduates "Scarlet Sails" appeared in Leningrad in 1968 at the initiative of the city department of public education. It was entrusted to organize it to the leadership of the city palace of pioneers named after Zhdanov, in which hardly every Soviet child studied (now the Palace of Youth Creativity).

The holiday opened on June 27, 1968, an hour before midnight. The main stage was the water area of ​​the Neva between the Kirov and Palace bridges. The holiday began with a light show to the famous "Hymn to the Great City" by Reinhold Gliere.

“To you, boys and girls, young citizens of our city, this holiday is dedicated! Today you were awarded a matriculation certificate!.. This is an unforgettable day! So let this evening be remembered forever! - said the announcer.

Then a staging was proposed in the spirit of Soviet theatrical performances: the “workers of the Putilov factory”, revolutionary sailors, soldiers passed. Living pictures were presented at the parade of ships: on the first ship - an imitation of a factory with workshops, machines and workers. On the second - a sickle with field farmers and machine operators. The third was the ship "Atom" with young scientists. Thus, the youth was offered the traditional Soviet choice: to become a worker, a peasant, or to join the intelligentsia. The ships were accompanied by Suvorov and Nakhimov.

The main ship was the boat "Leningrad", on which the flag of the holiday was raised, and then several dozen young people lit torches, which passed the fire along the chain to the Rostral columns. Volleys of mounted fireworks were fired from the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress from the Strelka. Then the three-masted "Secret" under scarlet sails entered the Neva. On board were the heroes of Alexander Grin.

The holiday, according to official sources, lasted until 4-5 am, the performance was attended by more than 25 thousand graduates. From that day on, the celebration of "Scarlet Sails" in this format became traditional and was celebrated until 1979, until the head of the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU, Grigory Romanov, closed it.

However, there is another version of the birth of the holiday. Some media claim that the first Scarlet Sails holiday took place a decade earlier - in 1958. The first presenters of the holiday were a student of the Institute of Culture Larisa Kuprina and a cadet of the LVIMU. Admiral S.O. Makarova ("Makarovka") Yuri Kozlov, who, allegedly, came up with the name of the holiday. The official part was held in the theater. Lenin Komsomol, then everyone moved to the embankment. A few years later, the holiday was closed, and in 1968 it was revived again.

Why and who did not please the "Scarlet Sails"

There are several versions: according to one of them, the holiday was closed due to the fact that tipsy graduates staged skirmishes with each other, and the police could not cope. According to another version, at the last holiday in the 1970s, several graduates on a dare decided to jump over the spans of the bridge and died, falling into the Neva. There is also a third version: the Leningrad brand was ordered to be closed “from above”, so that the second capital would not block the glory of the first, that is, Moscow.

One way or another, in 1979, the "Scarlet Sails" ceased to exist. Several generations of Leningrad graduates celebrated the day and night of farewell to school and childhood on the same Neva, but unofficially. They hired boats, walked along the embankments, drank champagne on the Field of Mars and sang songs on the night Nevsky. The holiday was revived only 26 years later, in 2005.

Why are the sails Swedish?

For four years, the Russian frigate Shtandart entered the Neva under scarlet sails. However, in 2010, the Swedish sailing ship Tre Kronor took its place. The then “cultural” vice-governor of St. Petersburg, Alla Manilova, explained the replacement of the domestic sailboat with a foreign one by the fact that the Shtandart did not have permission to move in the internal waters of Russia and in previous years it was released on the Scarlet Sails as an exception. In 2009, according to officials, the captain of the Shtandart allegedly again did not draw up documents and did not even begin to negotiate with Smolny.

“The decision to find a new sailboat was the result of protracted and unsuccessful negotiations with Shtandart's captain Vladimir Martus,” Manilova stressed.

Captain Vladimir Martus himself is offended and believes that the replacement of his ship with a foreign one is the result of bureaucratic laziness and internal squabbles.

“Naturally, I myself have a very bad attitude towards the participation of a foreign ship in a Russian holiday. But I can assure you that, for my part, I made every effort to ensure that Shtandart participated in Scarlet Sails. Now the forces to fight the bureaucracy have dried up. I see in this commerce and work on the picture - well, what can I do, maybe now our city has such a fate, ”Martus said in an interview with RIA Novosti in 2013.

According to him, he has not been able to return to Russia for 4 years due to problems with the law. The fact is that for wooden and sailing ships in Russia there is no base for technical supervision and control, and therefore the ship can remain laid up forever.

“There is only apathy on the part of officials. There are no historical courts - well, no and no. Apparently, this suits them. In order to turn the situation on its head, it is necessary to almost make changes to the Merchant Shipping Code. That is, this is serious work at the State Duma level, for which I personally do not have the resources. The Swedish ship is doing well, Swedish laws apply to it. If the Shtandart was transferred under the flag of another state, then we could also enter St. Petersburg according to the Swedish or Dutch rules, but the Petrovsky frigate is under the Swedish flag ... It is difficult and painful for me to imagine such a picture. Especially when I know that all the problems come from the fact that officials are too lazy to work a little,” said Vladimir Martus.

Note that for all the years of the existence of the holiday, the role of Green's "Secret" was performed by several ships. First there was the schooner "Leningrad" (the German captured schooner "Der Seeteufel"). In 2008, the training three-masted ship Mir, built at the Gdansk shipyard in 1987, sailed along the Neva. Then there were "Standart" and last years- Swedish "Three Crowns".

Anthem of Assol and Gray

Isaac Dunayevsky's overture to the film "Children of Captain Grant" has already become the anthem and musical symbol of the holiday. In 2010 and 2011, the musical score was based on the works of the outstanding composer Eduard Artemiev, who personally participated in the preparation of the musical material, and in 2012, the classics Sergei Prokofiev, Isaac Dunayevsky, as well as the popular Russian artist and composer Dmitry Malikov, who performed the suite accompanied by the Baltic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Konstantin Orbelyan.

Why are they scolded

For tons of garbage that even significantly reinforced brigades of janitors do not have time to remove. For drunken youth, and, according to the police, everyone gets drunk - both the graduates themselves and the guests.

The city government got a lot for the lack of trash cans and toilets, for the non-working metro, the profanation of checks and “metal detectors”, through which young people calmly smuggled strong drinks and firecrackers to Palace Square.

The situation was not immediately corrected - least of all negative reviews about the mess at the holiday was received in 2011. For the past two years, the metro has also been operating on this night without closing, which, of course, helps the guests of the holiday a lot.

"Scarlet Sails-2016"

The head of the organizing committee of the holiday, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Kirillov said that in 2016 the entrance to Palace Embankment and Palace Square will be open only to 80 thousand school graduates (of which about 700 are graduates of cadet schools, as well as graduates from 19 regions and 3 foreign countries).

About 30 specialized vessels will ensure the safety of the water area between the Troitsky and Palace bridges and the so-called "buffer" zones, preventing dangerous maneuvers in the area where pyrotechnics are located.

In order to avoid fakes, invitation cards, in addition to other degrees of protection, are equipped with special perforations. Their free distribution will begin only on the eve of the event itself. However, it has already appeared that on the "black market" you can buy a ticket to Palace Square for 1-3 thousand rubles.

5,000 people take part in organizing the event, of which 2,000 are law enforcement officers. About 30 specialized vessels will ensure the safety of the water area between the Troitsky and Palace bridges and the so-called "buffer" zones, preventing dangerous maneuvers in the area where pyrotechnics are located. Nearly 1,500 toilets will be installed in the city center, and 135 special cleaning machines will ensure quick cleaning after the holiday. Inspection is promised as in the most serious airport. It is forbidden to bring food and drinks with you.

Guests will be entertained music bands included in the top 20 preferences of St. Petersburg youth. Among them are "Beasts", "Night Snipers", "Spleen", Iowa, Mot and Bianca. For the 12th time in a row, Ivan Urgant from St. Petersburg will be the host. His partner is Channel Five presenter Dasha Aleksandrova.

Conductor Sergei Zhilin will direct the consolidated St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra from Moscow in the teleconference mode thanks to a large screen installed on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island. Diana Arbenina, Maria Maksakova, Ivan Ozhogin, father and son Presnyakova will take part in the pyrotechnic musical.

During the performance, the audience will see 20 laser pictures and 50 unique pyrotechnic explosions.

The culmination of the holiday will be the appearance of a brig under scarlet sails in the span of the Trinity Bridge. To show the show from the most favorable angles, Channel Five cameras will be installed on the roof of the Hermitage, on the balustrade St. Isaac's Cathedral, observation deck Petersburg TV tower, masts and deck of the Tre Kronor sailing ship.

The metro in the northern capital will operate all night.

Photo by Denis Tarasov.

Scarlet Sails (Holiday of Graduates)

"Scarlet Sails"- the All-Russian Alumni Ball, celebrated (1968-1979, revived in 2005) in St. Petersburg on the day closest to the longest white night (approximately June 18-23).

It is held in two stages: a big concert with elements of a theatrical performance on Palace Square and the spit of Vasilyevsky Island (beginning at 23:00, admission by invitation cards) and a grandiose lighting and pyrotechnic multimedia show in the Neva water area (beginning at 1:20, admission is free).

The night show is a unique performance on the water, where the main event is the passage along the embankments of a ship with scarlet sails. Its solemn movement is accompanied by a specially prepared light show, fireworks and water performance. The entire show is fully synchronized with the music. The duration of the water show is approximately 30 minutes.

Every year, 2.5 to 3.5 million people watch the performance in real time. There is also a live television broadcast by the federal Channel Five, with the distribution of a signal to the whole world. On holiday on TV high resolution 4 mobile television stations operate, more than 50 television cameras are installed on the ship, on the water, directly behind the pyrotechnic fronts, on high-rise buildings of the city and at other points. The holiday is held with the full support of the Government of St. Petersburg and the personal participation of the governor. The general sponsor of the event is JSC AB Rossiya. Among the guests of honor of the holiday: President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Holiday ideology

The main ideology of the holiday is best formulated in its motto: “Russia. Land of Opportunities. The solemnity and general mood of "Scarlet Sails" emphasize the hopes that the city places today on the new generation, on talented and promising youth, on which the future of St. Petersburg and the country depends.

The birth of a tradition

The only holiday in the Soviet Union for school graduates "Scarlet Sails" appeared in Leningrad in 1968. His birthplace is considered to be the Zhdanov City Palace of Pioneers on Nevsky Prospekt, now known as the Palace of Youth Creativity. It was there, by order of the city department of public education of Leningrad, that a large-scale and bright event was launched.

“To you, boys and girls, young citizens of our city, this holiday is dedicated! Today you were awarded a matriculation certificate!.. This is an unforgettable day! So let this evening be remembered forever! - said the announcer.

A squadron of boats came out from under the Kirovsky Bridge in the parade, opening the holiday. On the boats were representatives of all generations of Soviet people: the young Putilov working days of October, a sailor of the revolutionary Baltic, a soldier of the Bolshevik armored division ... People of the 20s, 30s, years of the Great Patriotic War, the post-war period, our days ... Today they saw off another shift of young people into their working life.

An honorary escort was located on the sides of all boats - young fanfarists and drummers in bright full dress uniforms of the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools. On the snow-white Admiral's boat "Leningrad" there were three graduates who were given the right to open the holiday. One of them held a huge celebratory pennant. Next to him is a young man and a girl with tall lit torches.

Having passed along the entire embankment, past the Palace Bridge, the squadron approached the wide descent of the Strelka. Here, on the granite steps, from the very water up to the Rostral columns, young men with unlit torches stood in several ranks. There are many of them, about four hundred people. "Leningrad" moored to Strelka. The flag of the holiday slid up the high flagpole on the shore. The young man and girl ignited the torches of the last ones in the chain with a wave-like movement of their torches. Two more torches were lit. And then the lights ran from person to person, to the square to the lighthouses. When the last torches lit up near the columns, suddenly, as if coming out of them, pyrotechnic fireballs floated upwards. They reached the top of the lighthouses. And then there were two light explosions. The balls set fire to the nozzles of the lighthouses. Flames on the Rostral Pillars rose high into the sky. Following them, fifty huge torches, mounted on the railings of the Peter and Paul Fortress, lit up with a new fiery wave. And then the fiery extravaganza, as it were, engulfed the sky itself. Volleys of mounted fireworks went up from the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress from the Strelka.

With flashes dancing in the wind, the lights framed the Neva. They continued to burn until the end of the holiday. And against their background, when fireworks were still thundering, a three-masted ship appeared. Green's galliot "Secret" with scarlet sails was walking along the river - a living emblem of the holiday.

On board the "Secret" is a joyful and romantic picture of the meeting of Assol. Here is Captain Grey, and the first mate Panten, and the cheerful joker sailor Letika, and Assoli's father - the old sailor Longren. The galliot team is on deck, above the masts ... A traveling orchestra is playing right there, the same one that Gray took with him on a flight to meet Assol with music ... Composition on marine themes by I. Dunaevsky, his overture to the film "Children of Captain Grant", his musical story about a cheerful wind became an organic part of this picture. "Secret" walked along the coast.

And on the air the dialogue of announcers. They talked about Grin, about his ship ... “Fair winds to you - a ship of joy, a ship of youth, a ship of happiness!” They talked about a dream. About a dream as the first step towards a practical goal. “To dream means to mentally overtake time, to predict the future ...” And then, after the galliot, “Ships of Dreams” appeared on the Neva. Dreams that pave the way to a labor tomorrow. In the wake column were "Ships of Labor". On each of them - a huge, luminous from the inside and illuminated from the sides of the three-dimensional image - a symbol. D. Shostakovich's oratorio "Song of the Forests" accurately expressed the significance of what was happening.

The first ship depicted a huge "Hammer". Inside the hammer, factory metal trusses, a fragment of a gear, and machine parts are visible. On the deck and on the compartments of the factory farms there was a living picture - the young workers of our days. They are in costumes of various industrial professions, with characteristic details of their work. The hammer is not only a symbol of production, it is inextricably linked in our view with a sickle - another part of the emblem of our state. The second was the ship "Sickle". Around a huge sickle glowing with silver are young workers of the Soviet village. The professions of the modern village are diverse. Farmers and machine operators, milkmaids and agricultural technicians, livestock specialists and builders... On the sides of the ship there are fields of tall golden ears, they sway in the wind in waves. Next came the ship "Atom". He is dedicated to science. A large model of an atomic nucleus was moving along the river ...

All this action was colorful, unusual, bright and bewitching. The festivities continued until early morning, and the performance was attended by more than 25 thousand graduates. From that day on, the celebration of "Scarlet Sails" became traditional and was celebrated until 1979, until the head of the Leningrad regional committee of the CPSU, Grigory Romanov, closed it, fearing a large crowd of young people. Since then, the holiday has become unofficial and resumed only in 2005.

Modern holiday

Today, "Scarlet Sails" is a large multimedia performance in open water using all the most modern technologies multimedia range. The working space of the water area is 1.8 km by 800 meters. The entire space of the main action is divided into linear sectors, each of which is a mobile virtual background decoration. Floating platforms (barges, pontoons are located clearly on a coordinate grid, allocated in space, limited by ship passages in such a way that the audience located around has a minimum number of "dead zones". This configuration allows you to create a multifaceted picture of a multimedia architecture, where each fragment is an integral part of the overall virtual space The main components are: a pyrotechnic and light show Additional components are a water performance, fire and fountain walls The entire performance is fully synchronized with music using SMPTE timecode The festival is one of the world's largest outdoor water performances water.

2005

At the time of the passage of the ship, Spanish and German pyrotechnics were used, noticeable even in a bright sky

The revival of "Scarlet Sails" in the format of a multimedia show required careful preparation and a lot of time.

Compositionally, the show consisted of three working plans. In the foreground, a frigate with scarlet sails was moving and a water performance was working (a separate production number with the participation of boats). In the background were fireworks and pyrotechnics on barges (linear front), in the third - a light show on the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress.

The key episode of the show was the 15-minute passage of the Shtandart with scarlet sails. The ship was illuminated by external spotlights, and the sails were illuminated from the inside by floodlights installed on the deck.

The entire show was synchronized with the music and lasted 25 minutes.

2006

Fireworks serve as a background for a sailing frigate with scarlet sails

The idea was to make the Peter and Paul Fortress and fireworks dynamic backgrounds that come to life when a frigate with scarlet sails passes. The movement of the ship was divided into sectors, where each sector had its own virtual scenery of pyrotechnics and light.

The frigate moved as if milky way, created by the pyrotechnic effect "Magic Carpet", which gave the impression that the ship was floating above the water. An interesting fact is that the whole concept was sketched by the creative team on the napkins of the Tivoli restaurant in the city of Frankfurt am Main. The lighting design of the water part of the show was prepared by the best lighting designer in St. Petersburg Gleb Filshtinsky.

2007

The ship is accompanied by a retinue

The 2007 show took it to the next level. It was visited by more than 1 million people - this is a European record. The technological and creative components of the holiday have reached a serious world level. The well-known Italian director Valerio Festi took part in the performance at the Palace Square. Unusual components were used as elements of the interior and exterior decorations: among them are giant inflatable spheres and actors dressed as living scenery. Especially for the performance, music was written, which was performed by a flying pianist. At a high altitude, a water screen was stretched across the entire Palace Square for light projections. Against the background of the screen, a frigate with scarlet sails moved through the air. Assol stood on his nose.

Many new elements appeared in the water part of the holiday: a ship with scarlet sails solemnly moved, accompanied by a retinue consisting of yachts, aquabikes and paragliders. The fireworks and light show became even larger, and the space involved in the performance exceeded 1.5 km².

2008

The scenery for the sailboat is a powerful light background

The show has changed the basic concept. Instead of the traditional passage of ships along the embankments, the Mir sailboat appeared, permanently installed in the water area. Of the new episodes, a pyrotechnic waterfall on the Trinity Bridge 500 meters long was added.

2009

Fireworks on bards, bridge and pontoons

In addition to the line with a large fireworks set on three barges, another one was added: a 400-meter pontoon, on which fireworks, fire engines, lights and a 200-meter water fountain were placed. For the show, the water area was divided into three accented stages with their own foreground space and individual dynamic two-stage backgrounds.

Since the Shtandart frigate and yachts are rather small, it was important to maintain the correct ratio of the scales of the pyrotechnic, light, fire and water backgrounds relative to the ships moving in the space of the water area.

The preparation of the show was seriously complicated by the weather conditions. A few days before the event, when some of the equipment was installed and mounted, there was a weather disaster: the temperature dropped to twelve degrees, rose hurricane wind, and such a downpour hit that the installation sites turned into giant lakes. A real storm has risen in the water area. The abundance of water due to heavy rain and storm made it necessary to repeatedly increase the moisture protection of all pyrotechnic material. However, despite various obstacles The show went very well.

2010

Frigate with scarlet sails on the background of fireworks

A water performance appeared in the show. Six 20-meter pleasure boats were converted into autonomous self-propelled platforms with their own power and radio control system, and were also equipped with special designs with pyrotechnics, fire, water cannons and light. All elements of the water performance were located along clear virtual diagonals, which allowed all water pyrotechnics to shoot into a fairly narrow space, limited by barges and pontoons at the moment a ship with scarlet sails directly passed along them. A highly maneuverable vessel capable of making turns in a small circle was specially brought from Sweden. The production at the Palace Square was performed in collaboration with the world famous circus Cirque du Soleil.

2011

Brig "Tre Krunur" with scarlet sails against the backdrop of fireworks

Organizers

In 2005, the holiday was revived by a creative team led by Marina Fokina at the initiative of JSC AB Russia. Today, the all-Russian ball of graduates "Scarlet Sails" is organized (with the exception of 2008) by the "St. Petersburg International Center for Festivals and Holidays", which is the main city operator in the event technology market city entertainment special events. IN organizational structure also includes various public and private organizations.

The general producer of the holiday is Marina Fokina.

Stage director - Vasily Sazonov.

Art director - Dmitry Orlikov.

Technical director - Olga Morr.

Water performance director - Oleg Nikolaenko.

General technical partners: PRG (USA - Germany), Orion-art (Russia), Cirque du Soleil (Canada), Studio Festi (Italy), Flash Art (Germany).

Ships sailing under scarlet sails

Music

Characteristically, all Scarlet Sails used music exclusively by Russian and Soviet composers. Some of the oratorios were written especially for Scarlet Sails. So, in 2009, the St. Petersburg musician and composer Anton Gryzlov worked on the original musical version. The performance was entrusted to the Leningrad Television and Radio Orchestra conducted by Stanislav Gorkovenko, conductor - Timur Gorkovenko. From year to year, Isaak Dunayevsky's overture to the film "Children of Captain Grant" is a kind of anthem of the holiday. In 2010 and 2011, the musical score was based on the works of the outstanding composer Eduard Artemyev, who personally participated in the preparation of the musical material. The performance was entrusted to the Russian Cinematograph Orchestra (2010, leaders Evgeny Shchegolev and Igor Ponomarenko) and the Symphony Orchestra conducted by Igor Ponomarenko (2011).

The performing line-up of the musical accompaniment group includes both a full-scale symphony orchestra and choir with soloists, as well as modern rock musicians and ethnic music performers on authentic instruments - from the Irish Whistle flute and Scottish bagpipes to African-American drums and electric guitar. The author of all the musical ideas of the modern holiday is the director and artistic director of the project Vasily Sazonov.

In 2012, the musical score was based on the works of the classics S. Prokofiev, I. Dunaevsky, as well as the music of the popular Russian artist and composer Dmitry Malikov, who performed the suite accompanied by the Baltic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Konstantin Orbelyan.

Criticism

Some sources on the Internet and the media believe that a significant number of drunk people are present at the festival

Today, on June 23, the traditional holiday of graduates "Scarlet Sails" will be held in St. Petersburg.

The celebrations will begin at 20 pm and end only at 4 am. However, the most spectacular moments of "Scarlet Sails" - festive fireworks and, in fact, the passage along the Neva of the ship itself with bright red sails will happen shortly after midnight. Moreover, the organizers promise that it will not be just fireworks, but a real pyrotechnic show on the water, which will last about 20 minutes - from 00.40 to 1.00 am on June 24.

A festive concert will also be organized especially for the graduates, and the artists will, as always, perform on several stages at once: the main one will be installed on Palace Square, and the additional one on the spit of Vasilyevsky Island. This time about 50 popular performers will perform here, including Quest Pistols Show, Kasta, ST, Alekseev, Victoria Daineko, Alsou, Marie Kraimbrery, Malbec & Suzanne and others. At the same time, the headliner of the event will be Basta, who will perform on the main square of St. Petersburg.

Photo source: Federal News Agency- Andrey Ivashin

By tradition, the entrance to the holiday is open only to the graduates themselves, who can get to it by special invitation. However, ordinary Petersburgers will also be able to watch fireworks and the passage of a ship with scarlet sails. True, this year, the entrance to the Palace Square and the spit of Vasilyevsky Island for ordinary people will be closed - graduates will walk there. But you can see the celebration from Liteiny Bridge, Petropavlovskaya Embankment, Admiralteyskaya Embankment, Kutuzov Embankment and Universitetskaya Embankment.

It is worth noting that this year "Scarlet Sails" is celebrating a big anniversary - it is 50 years since the already distant 1968, when this event was held in the Northern capital for the first time. However, it is worth noting that since 1979, the graduates' holiday has not been held for many years. Then they decided to cancel it, fearing large crowds of young people.

Only in 2005 it was decided to bring back this beautiful tradition. And now every year, at the beginning of the 20th of June, for graduates of St. Petersburg, as well as other Russian schools, hold a festive show.

By the way, the role of "Scarlet Sails" in different years carried out by various ships. For example, in 1968, a whole squadron of boats passed along the Neva, and in 1970, the captured German schooner Leningrad took part in the celebration. In 2005, when the holiday was resumed, the main symbol of the celebration was the first ship of the Baltic Fleet, the Fregat, restored in 1994. Then the ships changed several more times, but since 2010, the Swedish brig “Tre Kronor” (“Three Crowns”) has been invariably sailing along the Neva under Scarlet Sails. This ship is an exact copy of the brig of 1857 and was built with the money of volunteers from all over the world, which is why it is also called the Sailboat of the World.

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"Scarlet Sails" is an All-Russian ball of secondary school graduates, which is celebrated in St. Petersburg. "Scarlet Sails" usually take place on the Saturday closest to the longest white night (approximately June 18-24).

The Scarlet Sails holiday is held in two stages: a big concert with elements of a theatrical performance on Palace Square and the spit of Vasilyevsky Island (beginning at 23:00, entrance by invitation cards) and a grandiose lighting pyrotechnic multimedia show in the Neva water area (beginning at 1:20, Free admission).

The night show at the Scarlet Sails festival is a unique performance on the water, where the main event is the passage along the embankments of a ship with scarlet sails. Its solemn movement is accompanied by a specially prepared light show, fireworks and water performance. All Scarlet Sails shows are fully synchronized with the music. The duration of the water show is approximately 30 minutes.

Every year, from 2.5 to 3.5 million people watch the Scarlet Sails performance in real time. There is also a live television broadcast with a signal to the whole world. At the Scarlet Sails festival, 4 mobile television stations operate in the high-definition television format, more than 50 television cameras are installed on the ship, on the water, directly behind the pyrotechnic fronts, on high-rise buildings of the city and at other points.

The history of the holiday "Scarlet Sails"

The main ideology of the Scarlet Sails holiday is best formulated in its motto: “Russia. Land of Opportunities. The solemnity and general mood of "Scarlet Sails" emphasize the hopes that the city places today on the new generation, on talented and promising youth, on which the future of St. Petersburg and the country depends.

The only holiday in the Soviet Union for school graduates "Scarlet Sails" appeared in Leningrad in 1968. The Scarlet Sails holiday opened on June 27, 1968 at eleven o'clock in the evening, when it got dark. Its introductory theatrical part took place on the water. The stage was the water area of ​​the Neva between the Kirov and Palace bridges - a wide section of the river opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress. Places for spectators of the Scarlet Sails event are the entire Palace Embankment, both huge bridges and the spit of Vasilyevsky Island - a kind of amphitheater three kilometers long.

A chain of powerful searchlight installations stretched along the embankment. Their colored rays pierced the entire space above the river. Radio call signs heralded the beginning of the holiday. And after them, the historic center of the city was filled with the solemn, majestic melodrama "Hymn to the Great City" by Reinhold Gliere.

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In 2005, the Scarlet Sails holiday was revived by a creative team led by Marina Fokina at the initiative of JSC AB Russia. Today, the all-Russian ball of graduates "Scarlet Sails" is organized (with the exception of 2008) by the "St. Petersburg International Center for Festivals and Holidays", which is the main city operator in the event technology market city entertainment special events. The organizational structure also includes various public and private organizations.

Today, "Scarlet Sails" is a large multimedia performance on open water using all the most modern multimedia technologies. The working space of the Scarlet Sails water area is 1.8 km by 800 meters. The entire space of the main action is divided into linear sectors, each of which is a mobile virtual background decoration. Floating platforms (barges, pontoons) are located clearly on a coordinate grid, allocated in space, limited by ship passages in such a way that the audience located around has a minimum number of “dead zones”. The main components of the Scarlet Sails holiday are a pyrotechnic and light show. The Scarlet Sails Festival also includes a water performance, fire and fountain walls, the entire performance is fully synchronized with music using SMPTE timecode, and is one of the world's largest water performances taking place on open water.

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In 2013, "Scarlet Sails" was held under the motto "Russia - a country of opportunities!". The traditional concert for the guests of the holiday began on June 23, 2013 at 23:00 on Palace Square. As part of the preparations for the Scarlet Sails celebration, the STS TV channel launched the Creative Class intellectual show for young people, with graduates from 12 cities of Russia having the opportunity to participate in it. The winners of the program became heroes and guests of honor of the Scarlet Sails. In 2013, Scarlet Sails was integrated with the St. Petersburg Educational Forum, within which an exhibition of universities was held under the auspices of Scarlet Sails. The frigate with scarlet sails was again the Swedish brig Tre Krunur.

The hosts of the Scarlet Sails holiday were Alexander Gudkov and Olga Shelest.

In 1955, in the book The Golden Rose, Konstantin Paustovsky assessed the story's significance as follows: If Green died, leaving us only one of his poems in prose, Scarlet Sails, then this would be enough to put him in the ranks of wonderful writers who disturb the human heart with a call to perfection.» .

History of creation

The first notes related to the Scarlet Sails, Alexander Grin began to make in 1916. In the drafts for the novel "Running on the Waves" (1925), the author described the first appearance of the idea of ​​the story as follows:

I have "Scarlet Sails" - a story about a captain and a girl. I found out how it happened quite by accident: I stopped at a display case with toys and saw a boat with a sharp white silk sail. This toy told me something, but I did not know - What, then I wondered if the red sail would say more, but better than that- scarlet, because there is a bright jubilation in scarlet. Rejoicing means knowing why you rejoice. And so, unfolding from this, taking the waves and the ship with scarlet sails, I saw the purpose of his being.

Green wrote this story for almost five years. In one of the first drafts, the action of the extravaganza took place in post-revolutionary Petrograd (as in the story "Pied Piper"), then the author decided to transfer the characters to his "Greenland". In the summer of 1919, Green was drafted into the Red Army as a signalman; Green carried drafts of the story everywhere with him in his travel bag. He soon fell ill with typhus and ended up in the Botkin barracks for almost a month.

After recovering, Green, with the assistance of Gorky, managed to get an academic ration and housing - a room in the " House of Arts" on Nevsky Prospekt, 15. Neighbors recalled that Green lived as a hermit, almost did not communicate with anyone, but it was here that he wrote his most famous, touching - a poetic work - extravaganza "Scarlet Sails". " It was hard to imagine that such a bright flower, warmed by love for people, could be born here, in gloomy, cold and half-starved Petrograd, in the winter twilight of the harsh 1920; and that he was raised by a man outwardly gloomy, unfriendly and, as it were, closed in a special world where he did not want to let anyone in", - recalled Vsevolod Rozhdestvensky. Among the first, this masterpiece was enthusiastically appreciated by Maxim Gorky, who often read to his guests the episode of the appearance of a fabulous ship in front of Assol.

Preliminary work on Scarlet Sails was completed in early December 1920. Subsequently, the author repeatedly made corrections to the manuscript. The white autograph of the story has not been preserved.

Chapter " Gray"was published in the newspaper" Evening telegraph”, No. 1 of May 8, 1922. In its entirety, as a separate book, the extravaganza was published in 1923. The writer dedicated it to his second wife Nina (" Nina Nikolaevna Green is presented and dedicated by the Author. PBG, November 23, 1922"). The story was included in all collected works of the writer.

Plot

Fairy tells the story of the girl Assol, who lost her mother when she was only eight months old. Assol lived in a village Caperna with his father - a sailor Longren. The father, a closed and unsociable person, after his retirement began to make and sell toys - skillfully made models of sailboats and steamers in order to earn a living for himself and his little daughter.

The fellow countrymen did not really like the former sailor, especially after one incident. Once, during a severe storm, the local shopkeeper and innkeeper Menners was carried away in his boat far out to sea. Longren was the only witness to this. He calmly smoked his pipe on the pier, watching Manners call out to him in vain. Only when it became obvious that he could no longer be saved, Longren shouted to him that in the same way his Mary asked a fellow villager for help, but did not receive it.

On the sixth day, the shopkeeper was picked up among the waves by a steamer, and before his death, he told about the culprit of his death.

He did not tell only about how, five years ago, Longren's wife turned to him with a request to lend some money. She had just given birth to little Assol. The birth was not easy, and almost all the money left was spent on treatment, and the husband had not yet returned from swimming. Menners advised not to be touchy, then he is ready to help. The unfortunate woman went to the city in bad weather to lay a ring, caught a cold and died of pneumonia. So Longren remained a widower with a little daughter in his arms and could no longer go to sea.

Whatever it was, the news of such demonstrative inactivity of Longren struck the villagers more than if he had drowned a man with his own hands. The hostility turned almost into hatred and also turned to the innocent Assol, who grew up alone with her fantasies and dreams and seemed to need neither peers nor friends. Her father replaced her mother, and friends, and fellow countrymen.

Once, when Assol was eight years old, he sent her to the city with new toys, among which was a miniature yacht with scarlet silk sails. The road went through the forest. The girl lowered the boat into the stream. The stream carried him and carried him to the mouth. Assol ran after the floating toy yacht and saw a stranger holding her boat in his hands. It was old aigle - « collector of songs, legends, traditions and fairy tales". He gave the toy to Assol and told that years would pass, and when she grew up and became an adult, one day she would follow her on the same ship under scarlet sails the prince will sail and take him to a distant land ...

The girl told her father about it. Unfortunately, a beggar who accidentally heard her story spread the rumor about the ship and the "overseas prince" throughout Capern. Now the children shouted after her: “Hey, gallows! Red sails are sailing! So she came across as crazy.

Arthur Gray, the only offspring of a noble and wealthy family, grew up in a family castle, in an atmosphere of predestination of every present and future step. This, however, was a boy with a very lively soul, ready to fulfill his own destiny in life. He was determined and fearless.

The keeper of their wine cellar, Poldishok, told him that two barrels of Cromwellian alicante were buried in one place: its color is darker than cherry, and it is thick, like good cream. The barrels are made of ebony and have double copper hoops on which is written: "Grey will drink me when he is in paradise." No one has tasted this wine and never will. “I'll drink it,” Gray said, stamping his foot and clenching his hand into a fist: “Paradise? He is here!.."

With all this, he was extremely responsive to someone else's misfortune, and his sympathy always resulted in real help.

In the library of the castle, he was struck by a painting by some famous marine painter. She helped him understand himself. Gray secretly left home and joined the schooner Anselm. Captain Hop was a kind man, but a stern sailor. Assessing the mind, perseverance and love for the sea of ​​a young sailor, Gop decided to “make a captain out of a puppy”: introduce him to navigation, maritime law, sailing and accounting. At twenty, Gray bought a three-masted galliot "Secret" and sailed as a captain on it for four years. Fate brought him to Liss, one and a half hours walk from which was Caperna.

After dark Gray and the sailor Letika, taking fishing rods, sailed on a boat in search of a suitable place for fishing. Under the cliff behind Kaperna, they left the boat and lit a fire. Letika went fishing, and Gray lay down by the fire. In the morning he went for a walk, when suddenly he saw Assol sleeping in the thickets. He looked at the girl who struck him for a long time, and leaving, he took off the old ring from his finger and put it on her little finger.

Then he and Letika went to Menners' tavern, where the young Hin Menners was now in charge. He said that Assol is a local crazy woman who dreams of a prince and a ship with scarlet sails, and that her father is the culprit in the death of the elder Menners and a terrible person. Gray's doubts about the veracity of this information intensified when a drunken collier assured that the innkeeper was lying. Gray, even without outside help, managed to understand something in this extraordinary girl, to unravel her soul. She knew life within the limits of her experience, but, moreover, she saw in phenomena a meaning of a different order, making many subtle discoveries that were incomprehensible and unnecessary to the inhabitants of Caperna.

The captain was in many ways the same himself, a little "out of this world." He went to Liss and found in one of the shops scarlet silk from which ordered to make sail. In the city he met an old acquaintance - a wandering musician Zimmer- and asked to come to the "Secret" with his orchestra by the evening.

The scarlet sails bewildered the crew, as did the order to go to Kaperna. However, in the morning "The Secret" came out under scarlet sails and by noon he was already in sight of Caperna.

Assol was shocked by the sight white ship under scarlet sails from the deck of which music poured. She rushed to the sea, where the inhabitants of Caperna had already gathered. When Assol appeared, everyone fell silent and parted. The boat, in which Gray was standing, separated from the ship and headed towards the shore. After a while, Assol was already in the cabin. Everything happened just as the old man Egle predicted.

On the same day, a barrel of century-old wine was opened, which no one had ever drunk before. The next morning the ship was already far from Caperna, carrying away the crew, defeated by Gray's unusual wine. Only Zimmer did not sleep. He quietly played his cello and thought about happiness ...

Adaptations

Screen adaptations

Theatrical performances

• "Scarlet Sails" - ballet by V. M. Yurovsky, Bolshoi Theatre, 1943
• "Scarlet Sails" () - graduation performance of graduates of the Faculty of Puppet Art of the Musical College. Gnesins, who created under the leadership of L. A. Khait the famous theater "People and Dolls" ( Gray- V. Garkalin, Assol- doll)
• "Scarlet Sails" - rock opera by Andrey Bogoslovsky. Recorded by VIA "Music" in 1976.
• Musical "Scarlet Sails" (2007)
• "Scarlet Sails" - a musical performance of the theater-festival "Baltic House". Staged by Eduard Gaidai, stage director - Raimundas Banionis, composer - Faustas Latenas. Premiere in St. Petersburg, 2008
• "Scarlet Sails" - a musical extravaganza based on a play by Mikhail Bartenev and Andrey Usachev. RAMT, 2009 Director - Alexei Borodin, music - Maxim Dunayevsky.
• "Assol" - a musical extravaganza based on the play by Pavel Morozov at the Lugansk Regional Academic Russian Drama Theater (2010). Director - Oleg Alexandrov, composer Mikhail Mordkovich.
• Musical extravaganza "Assol" based on the play by Pavel Morozov, Zhambyl Regional Russian Drama Theater (Kazakhstan). Premiere - November 13, 2010.
• Performance "Scarlet Sails", "Theatre on Spasskaya" (Kirov). Director - Boris Pavlovich. Premiere May 20, 2011.
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" by Maxim Dunayevsky at the Free Space Theater (2011). Libretto by Mikhail Bartenev and Andrey Usachev. Director - A. Mikhailov.
• Pavel Morozov at the Irkutsk Regional Theater for Young Spectators. Director - Ksenia Torskaya. 2011.
• "Scarlet Sails" at the Bratsk Drama Theatre. Director - Valery Shevchenko. 2008
• Musical-drama "Scarlet Sails". Moscow musical theater "Monoton". Music by A. Bogoslovsky. Libretto by I. Chistozvonova. 2010
• The performance "Scarlet Sails" based on the play by Pavel Morozov on the stage of the Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater. Stage director Anatoly Ilyin. Composer Olga Nesterova. 2011.
• The play "Pier of Scarlet Dreams" in the Irkutsk Regional Puppet Theater "Stork" based on the works "Scarlet Sails" and "Running on the Waves". Author - Alexander Khromov. Director - Yuri Utkin. Premiere - March 21, 2012.
• The performance "Scarlet Sails" by Pavel Morozov at the Silver Island Theater. Director - Honored Artist of Ukraine Lyudmila Lymar. (Kyiv, Ukraine). 2011.
• Theatrical extravaganza "Scarlet Sails" on the stage of the Dzerzhinsky Drama Theater. The authors of the staging are Alexander Rasev and Valentin Morozov. Stage director V. Morozov. year 2012.
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" at the Novosibirsk theater "Globe" to the music of Maxim Dunayevsky directed by Nina Chusova. 2012
• Premiere of the play "Scarlet Sails" based on the play "Assol" by Pavel Morozov at the Bryansk Theater for Young Spectators. Director - Larisa Lemenkova. 2012
• Maxim Dunayevsky at the Perm Academic Theater-Theatre. Stage director Boris Milgram. 2012 "Golden Mask" award in the nomination "Operetta-musical / Director's work".
• Musical extravaganza "Scarlet Sails" in the Samara Academic Drama Theater. M. Gorky. Director - Raimundas Banionis (Lithuania). 2009
• Musical performance "Assol" based on the play by Pavel Morozov, at the Novoshakhtinsky Drama Theater. Director - Ksenia Torskaya. 2012
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music of Maxim Dunayevsky at the Vologda Regional Theater for Young Spectators. Director - People's Artist of Russia Boris Granatov. 2012
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music of Valeria Lesovskaya at the Musical Theater of Kuzbass. A. Bobrova. Director - Dmitry Vikhretsky. 2012
• Musical show "Scarlet Sails" by A. Green at the Youth Theater of Uzbekistan. 2012
• Musical by Pavel Morozov at the Donetsk Academic Regional Russian Youth Theatre. Director - Oleg Alexandrov. Scenography - Honored Art Worker of Ukraine Volodymyr Medved. Composer - M. Mordkovich. year 2013.
• Ballet "Assol" in the Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre. Composer - Vladimir Savchik. The author of the libretto and choreographer is the People's Artist of Belarus Vladimir Ivanov. 2013
• Premiere of the musical performance "Assol" based on the play by Pavel Morozov at the Volgograd Cossack Music and Drama Theatre. Director and composer - Sergei Chvokin. year 2013.
• Performance of the Penza Theater for Young Spectators Where dreams come true based on Scarlet Sails. Director - Daria Samoukova. 2013
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music of Maxim Dunayevsky on the stage of the Moscow Musical Theater. Stage director - Dmitry Belov. Based on the libretto by Mikhail Bartenev and Andrey Usachev. Premiere October 18, 2013
• The musical performance "Scarlet Sails" based on the play by Pavel Morozov "Assol" at the Novgorod Academic Drama Theater named after F. M. Dostoevsky. Directed by Sergei Grishanin. Composer - Honored artist of Ukraine M. Mordkovich. 2014
• Musical fantasy "Scarlet Sails" in the Yaroslavl Youth Theater. Directed by Igor Larin. 2014
• The performance "Scarlet Sails" based on the play "Assol" by Pavel Morozov at the State Academic Russian Theater for Children and Youth of Kazakhstan named after. N. Sats. Director - Honored. art. Republic of Tajikistan Sultan Usmanov, composer - Maxim Germantsev (Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan). 2014
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music and words of Okso, the theater "Invisible". Stage directors - Okso and Ilya Neboslov. Premiere July 13, 2013.
• The play "Scarlet Sails" based on the play "Assol" by Pavel Morozov in the Akmola Regional Russian Drama Theater. Stage director - O. Lutsiva (Kokshetau, Kazakhstan). 2014
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music of Maxim Dunayevsky on the stage of the theater "Russian Song". Stage director - Svetlana Gorshkova. Based on the libretto by Mikhail Bartenev and Andrey Usachev. Premiere February 13, 2015
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music of Maxim Dunayevsky at the "Free Space" Theater for Children and Youth (Orel). Stage director - Alexander Mikhailov. Based on the libretto by Mikhail Bartenev and Andrey Usachev.
• The musical "Scarlet Sails" to the music of Maxim Dunayevsky on the stage of the Ivanovo Musical Theater (Ivanovo) based on the libretto by Mikhail Bartenev and Andrey Usachev. Director - A. Lobodaev, conductor - D. Shchudrov, artist - Honored Worker of Culture of Russia V. Novozhilova, choreographer - V. Lisovskaya, choirmaster - Y. Baburina. . The musical premiered on April 22, 2016.
• Musical extravaganza "Scarlet Sails" based on the play "Assol" by Pavel Morozov on the stage of the Stavropol Academic Drama Theater. M. Yu. Lermontov. Stage director - folk art. RF Natalya Zubkova. 2016