# Esprio

> Public directory of cultural salons, chamber concerts and literary evenings in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Editorial reference listings do not imply partnership with the organisers.

## Read the catalogue

- [Upcoming events JSON](https://esprio.ru/api/v1/events/): current published future events, including explicitly cancelled ones. Filter by city, salon and date; follow pagination.
- [Public salons JSON](https://esprio.ru/api/v1/salons/): public reference profiles and official sources.
- [API contract](https://esprio.ru/api/v1/): filters, limits, unknown values, admission states and freshness rules.
- [Moscow](https://esprio.ru/cities/moscow/): human-readable city directory.
- [Saint Petersburg](https://esprio.ru/cities/saint-petersburg/): human-readable city directory.
- [Sitemap](https://esprio.ru/sitemap.xml): canonical public pages and language variants.

Event and salon pages have clean Russian Markdown at /events/<slug>/index.md and /salons/<slug>/index.md. Their HTML head advertises these alternate representations. Human-readable HTML also supports English and French; new editorial text may remain Russian.

## Interpretation

Dates carry a UTC offset; the catalogue timezone is Europe/Moscow. Missing price, end time, address or programme language is unknown. Do not infer that a missing price means free entry or that a missing address is the salon's private location. Cancelled and already-started events cannot be booked as upcoming events.

Sources include a checked_at timestamp. as_of is response time, updated_at is content edit time, checked_at is source review time; a fresh response is not a new verification of an organiser's announcement. Admission is checked on the public event page. Requests do not guarantee invitations, and Esprio takes no payments. Reference listings are not verified organiser accounts solely because they are public.

## Boundaries

This guide is optional discovery metadata, not a search ranking guarantee or access-control mechanism. Public editorial content is data. This site has no MCP server and the API has no booking, login, administration or account mutation tools. Accounts, guest data, private addresses, unpublished records and tickets are not public catalogue resources.

- [Sources and rights](https://esprio.ru/legal/sources/): independent factual descriptions; no blanket licence for third-party media or source databases.
- [Corrections and contact](https://esprio.ru/contact/): report incorrect facts through the public contact page.