On the shore of the Kerch Strait, between the two seas of the Black and Azov, the hero city of Kerch is spread. Antique buildings and ancient architectural monuments do not leave you indifferent, it is here that you want to spend all your vacation and come back here again.
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Kerch is one of the most ancient cities in the world. It is hard to imagine that the city is more than 26 centuries old. Kerch was the capital of the Bosporus Kingdom, the largest on the Black Sea. During the Great Greek colonization, the Greeks who came from Miletus began to develop the lands of the Northern Black Sea region, and this is how the Panticapaeum colony arose. Every year at the beginning of summer, the festival of ancient art "Bosporus Agons" is held here. This is the only festival in the entire post-Soviet space. On Mount Mithridates, at the excavations of ancient Pritaneus, (the site of Panticapaeum), the opening ceremony of the festival takes place. In the silver light of the moon, spectators enjoy an enchanting spectacle with the participation of prominent artists and artists. The ancient Greeks believed that from the stage you can create the illusion of a dialogue with time, scare off death and prolong life. During the excavations of the ancient site of Panticapaeum, archaeologists found samples of theatrical masks used by ancient actors. One of them is the symbol of the festival.
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Theatrical collectives from different countries of the post-Soviet space and even Europe, who turn to the works of the ancient Greek playwrights Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophox, annually take part in the show. For fifteen years, representatives of more than forty countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Kazakhstan, have visited Kerch. The audience saw the ancient gods, the bright divine muses of Melpomene, a fragment of a puppet show, dance numbers, musical compositions. "Bosporus agony" is a multi-day holiday, the roots of which go back to the ancient culture of the Eastern Crimea. He grew up in an ancient land where Panticapaeum and Mirmekiy, Tiritaki, Nympheus and Parthenius previously existed.
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Festival "Bosporus agony" - preservation and development of the cultural heritage of Kerch and Crimea, education in the young generation of a sense of belonging to the centuries-old history of their native land. June is a month when everyone can touch the ancient art, feel theatrical performances at the amphitheater of Pritaneus.
