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title: 'Farewell to St. Petersburg (1972)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Yan Frid'
released: '1972-06-12'
runtime_minutes: 92
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/farewell-to-st-petersburg-1972'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145411/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Farewell to St. Petersburg (1972)

1972 · 92 min · Drama, History, Romance · Soviet Union

Original title: Прощание с Петербургом

## Synopsis

Farewell to St. Petersburg is a 1972 Soviet biopic film directed by Yan Frid. The film is about the Austrian composer Johann Strauss's stay in Russia, his concerts in Pavlovsk in the summer of 1857, and his love towards the Russian aristocrat Olga Smirnitskiy, to whom he dedicated several works.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Yan Frid](https://cinepixo.com/people/yan-frid)
- **Screenplay:** [Anatoli Grebnev](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoli-grebnev)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Vladlen Chistyakov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladlen-chistyakov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Oleg Kukhovarenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-kukhovarenko)

## Cast

- [Ģirts Jakovļevs](https://cinepixo.com/people/girts-jakovlevs)

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