Having represented St Petersburg in cultural events across the world, the quartet has come to be regarded as a symbol of their native city.

Terem is open for guests, we are always glad to see them[1] (Andrey Konstantinov)The group's first concert took place on 26 November 1986 on the stage of music teachers training college.

In 1991, the quartet was invited to take part in the Womad festival in the UK, where they performed along with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Sinéad O'Connor, Suzanne Vega and Led Zeppelin.

Here, on the "Family Day" holiday, they gave a concert to an audience of 120,000, among whom was Mother Teresa, who blessed the musicians and presented them with medallions.

In 1998, the quartet performed at the Edinburgh festival in the UK, and the ensemble's concerts received the highest marks from The Scotsman newspaper.

The first was No, Russia Cannot Be Perceived by Wit ("Intuition" Label), produced by Giovanni Amighetti and awarded four stars by AllMusic: "These classically-trained musicians exhibit masterful technique at their tools.

In 2004, three more CDs were released: Terem Quartet and Friends (featuring the Remake ensemble, comprising Vladimir Chernov, Joji Hirota, Svetlana Kruchkova, Dora Shwarzberg, Igor Sharapov, Arkady Shilkloper and Igor Dmitriev), "2000th concert" (recording of the concert in Saint Petersburg Philharmonia on 25 March 2004) and "Neapolitan Songs" (joint project with Vladimir Chernov).

For this event, the musicians prepared a six-minute potpourri of songs by winners of this competition, including ("Waterloo" by ABBA, "Volare", "Diva" by Dana International, "Believe" by Dima Bilan and Ding-A-Dong by Teach-In).

[7]The Quartet's immaculate musicianship shines like an illuminated manuscript...(Independent)[8]Mozart, Chopin and Bizet as you've never heard them before - classical music become theatre.

(Independent)[8]Nikita Mikhalkov said that it was important for him to find a wonderful combination of professionalism, musicality, mischief and root structure in the ensemble.

[10] The Terem Quartet subsequently recorded three songs from DDT's "Beautiful Love" (Prekrasnaya Lubov) album.