| Farewell to St. Petersburg | |
| Director: | Yan Frid |
| Starring: | Girt Yakovlev Tatiana Bedova Tatyana Piletskaya Vasili Merkuryev Pavel Kadochnikov |
| Music: | Vladlen Chityakov |
| Cinematography: | Oleg Kukhovarenko |
| Studio: | Lenfilm |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
Farewell to St. Petersburg (Russian: Прощание с Петербургом|Proshchaniye s Peterburgom) 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.
Director Yan Frid received honorary diplomas at the Film Festival of Workers in Czechoslovakia (1973).[1]