Great Winter Ball «Silver Angel»
In November 2008 the International Youth Diplomacy League and international cultural foundation «MASTER CLASS» revived a brilliant tradition and organized Great Winter Ball «Silver Angel» for their friends and partners. 7–9 November fashionable hotels of Saint-Petersburg Astoria and Angleterre welcomed guests of the Ball, politicians and businessmen from Russia and foreign countries (Italy, France, Great Britain etc.) and young leaders, former participants of the international projects of the League. There was established a prize-award «Silver Angel» on the Ball and it was presented to the Alumni of the G8 Youth Summit 2006 Timofey Kunitsky for the contribution to the development of public diplomacy. First day it was an oyster party with particular menu made specially for this evening. Second day included gala-dinner with auction of pictures of Saint-Petersburgs’ painters and the Ball itself. Visitors enjoyed opera and ballet performances of Mariinsky theatre stars, danced waltz and mazurka to the accompaniment of the governor’s orchestra, the conductor Timur Gorkovenko. The ball participants enjoyed the fashion show, called «Silver Angel», specifically designed for the Ball by Claudia Smirnova and continued the evening in the cigar room with the brilliant choices of cigars, cognacs and whisky.