Russian Street Artist Performing in St Petersburg

 I have seen many  Performances of street artist in Arbatskaya Street (it's called ulitsa Arbat in Russian) quite often. It was not a new Phänomena in Russia. For  centuries street artists performed all over the Russia. In Saint Petersburg, most of the time they were Performing alongside Newsky Prospekt, Palace Square (dvartsovi ploshad  - Дворцовая площадь) and near gostini dvor (Guest Door -гостиный двор). 

The soviet art produced in the soviet union had two main categories.One which glorified Soviet realism and other one which thrived outside of it. It was called soviet nonconformist art and it thrived after the Stalin's death to 0l the perestroika Period,  from 1953 to 1986. It was also called "underground art " as well. After the perestroika era started, most of these artists came out  to popular culture as  soviet realism faded into oblivion.