Musica Petropolitana is recognised as one of the foremost Russian original instrument ensembles. The ensemble's musicians studied at the St Petersburg State Conservatory and went on to study with Marie and Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. The ensemble Musica Petropolitana was created in 1990 with the objective of rediscovering the 18th Century music of its birthplace, St Petersburg.

In 1990 Musica Petropolitana also won the first prize in the prestigious Manchester International Early Music Competition which opened the way to an Early Music Network tour in the United Kingdom and a BBC recording in 1991. The same year the ensemble gave its first concerts in Spain, Germany and Italy.

In 1992 Musica Petropolitana performed in Denmark, the Jerusalem Festival and returned to Spain and Germany. The following year the ensemble won the first prize in the International Van Wassenaer Competition in Amsterdam and was also a prize winner in the Bruges International Early Music Competition.Since then Musica Petropolitana has performed in festivals throughout Europe: the York Early Music Festival, Musikfest Bremen, Rheingau Festival, Berlin Bach Tage, Potsdam San-Soucci, Tage Alte Musik in Regensburg and Herne, Telemann Festival Magdeburg, Vantaa Early Music Week in Helsinki, and the Schleswig-Holstein, Bad Arolsen and Frankfurt Festivals. They have toured in Turkey, The Netherlands (Dutch Early Music Network) Belgium, Austria and regularly in Germany and the United Kingdom.

In 1998 Musica Petropolitana created the first Early Music Festival in St Petersburg and over the past five years has invited a number of Europe's most renowned artists and ensembles - Gustav Leonhardt, Michael Chance, Il Giardino Armonico, Christophe Coin, Pierre Hantai, Emma Kirkby, Andrew Manze, Monica Huggett, Fretwork and Anonymous.

In 2001 Musica Petropolitana made its first tour in the USA, returning there in 2002, and also performed in France in the Festival d’Ile de France and the Festival du Haut Jura. During the last season they performed at the Obersdorfer Musiksommer in Germany, at Sommerset House, the Beverly Festival and Warwick Festival in the United Kingdom, at the Bratislava Festival, the Tallinn Baroque Festival in Estonia and in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

During the summer of 2003 Musica Petropolitana performs in the Nantes Printemps des Arts, the Haut Jura Festival, the Nordmaling Baroque Festival in Sweden, in Potsdam Sans-Soucci and at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. Musica Petropolitana has recorded for several radio stations (BBC- 3, WDR-3 and NDR-3, Radio-Amsterdam and Radio Denmark) and has recorded a series of CDs of music at the St Petersburg court for the Opus 111-Naive label: "Manfredini, Khandoshkin - Concertos - Variations - Quartet" ; "Ivan Yevstafyevich Chandoshkin (1747-1804) Melodies, Variations & Sonates" with the soprano Olga Pasichnyk, and "Salons de femmes a Saint Petersbourg - works by Galuppi, Koslovski, Cimarosa, Sarti, Paisello, Cardon, Kourakin & Manfredini", also with Olga Pasichnyk.