📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Country Estates of the St-Petersburg region were built in 18-19 centuries. Among the owners there were members of the royal family and famous statesmen, military leaders, artists, composers, architects, writers, such as Vrangel, Repin, Nabokov, Rerikh. Many of country houses were damaged, especially the parks, landscapes and interiors. We want to bring the former meaning to the country estates as pieces of world heritage. Today the restoration of the country estates is an important deal together with the renewal of the unique parks. The project will be implemented on some of these estates. We expect our workcamp will help volunteers to achieve the following object: to raise awareness among the local population regarding heritage and the importance their participation to preserving this sites. The innovative aspect of the project is that the camp will be relocating, that means that during the camp participants will visit a lot of places around the city St-Petersburg and in suburbs. It will help volunteers to build their own opinion about the importance of heritage protection. Volunteers will visit and will work on several Lesser known world Heritage sites near St-Petersburg. It is a unique workcamp for volunteers, who want to get in touch with the spirit of Russian history. VIDEO about MIR TESEN camps :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfeVCqqH7IniuHDyB_7r46Q?view_as=subscribe
💼 What the programme involves
Some days Our volunteers will be working in the Country Estate in suburb of St-Petersburg. The volunteers will be engaged to improve parks: take care about plantations of trees, mow the meadows, cure the trees, clean the hollows, sweep the grounds, cleaning them out of the garbage, etc.
About 1-2 days the volunteers will be engaged in improving the territory of Vasilievsky Island and making outside and inside repair of old historical building, where lived world known artist. Volunteers will be working about 5 hours per day 5 days a week under the supervision .
🏠 Accommodation on site
The host organization provides a basic condition accommodation and food in St-Petersburg . Volunteers will be accommodated at the special room for volunteers in the historical center of St-Petersburg, that is fully equipped for living. There are shower, kitchen, rooms with sleeping places. Food will be provided but meals will be cooked by volunteers on their own. A small kitchen is available for daily cooking, so participants can organize cooking schedule and take turns.
📍 About the location
LOCATION: St. Petersburg/Leningrad region. TERMINAL: Pulkovo International Airport is located about 17 km from the St.Petersburg center.
LEISURE TIME: The historic center of St. Petersburg is included in UNESCO World Heritage http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/540 Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups Monuments" St-Petersburg is a cultural capital of Russia http://www.saint-petersburg.com/attractions/ so as the weekend will be spent in St-Petersburg downtown volunteers will have an opportunity to visit numerous museums, theatres, galleries and exhibitions, country residences of Emperors, Grand Princes and grandees: Peterhof www.peterhofmuseum.ru, Lomonosov www.oranienbaum.org, Tsarskoye Selo www.tzar.ru, Pavlovsk www.pavlovskmuseum.ru, Gatchina www.museum.ru/W1335. Besides, at this time of the year the city hosts a variety of festivals, concerts and folk events. Each year millions of tourists come to Petersburg, walking at night on the Neva river, watch the bridges raise.
