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At Peter I have started to arrange the dramatized street processions devoted to victories, gained over Swedes. The dramatized processions, as well as festivals, promoted development of interest to entertainment arts, revealed national talents.

During holidays on Neva in 1740 on the occasion of a victory in war with Turks between the Winter palace and Admiralty the ice house has been constructed. In it celebrated wedding of the court clown of prince Golitsyn. The big ethnographic masquerade with participation arrived with suburbs of Russia of representatives of various nationalities has been arranged. The guns put before the house scorched ice kernels, ice dolphins and an elephant threw out burning oil.

Fragility of ice walks from Neva on the Admiralty area have forced to transfer Inconstancy of the Petersburg weather when the strong frost was replaced by thaw and even a rain. Holidays were arranged and on Tsaritsyn to a meadow (nowadays the Mars field), and on the Palace area. Paul I has disposed to spend again walks on Neva: at Smolnogo, against a building of Academy of sciences, Kunstkamery, and also against the Peter and Paul Fortress.

At Alexander I national holidays have been returned on the Admiralty area. Artist K.E.Makovsky has represented One of such holidays in a picture ' the Festival during the Pancake week on the Admiralty area in Petersburg ' (1869).