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After many children’s book attractions, an ‘immersive experience’ based on the poet’s fairytales is planned in Russia. Isn’t it time for more adult resorts?
There are lovers of fairytales and lovers of Russian literature and lovers of theme parks, and sometimes, just sometimes, everyone’s wishes can be met in one place. News arrives that a new Russian theme park inspired by the poetic fairytales of Alexander Pushkin is due to open in St Petersburg in 2023, built around the imaginary land of Lukomorye described in Pushkin’s poem Ruslan and Ludmila.
Lukomorye will, promise its designers, be “a magical place where one can step into the fairytales of Pushkin in a modern, immersive and spectacular way, yet with the typical flair of Russian folklore and tradition”, and will contain “experiences and attractions” based on the city, the harbour and palace that Pushkin describes in his stories. There will also be a funfair market, a swan lake, a fairytale forest, an “immersive walk-through experience based on Pushkin’s life”, and two “spectacular dark rides”. Continue reading...