This year the event is called Avant-gArdens and highlights avant-garde art and its fusion with nature. The 10th anniversary Festival "Imperial Gardens of Russia" is taking place from 9 to 18 June.

      The festival exhibition program in the Mikhailovsky Garden consists of 62 projects. These are both spatial compositions and audio installations, as well as perfume portraits even. "We have made Kandinsky, Malevich and Rodchenko sound. There is something to be surprised here with," - says Oksana Chernyshova, president of the Perfumers Guild.

      Visitors will listen to a series of lectures on avant-garde art, participate in floristry master classes, see theatrical performances and music concerts, as well as purchase souvenirs and perfumes dedicated to avant-garde.