Alexander Pushkin - a historian, prose writer, playwright

The Presidential Library will host “Alexander Pushkin’s Memorial Day” conference and webinar on February 10, 2020, at 10:00. The event will be broadcasted live on the library’s portal, in the official group on the VKontakte social network and on the institution’s YouTube channel.

The main goal of the conference and webinar, which has already become traditional, is to preserve the memory of Pushkin’s life and oeuvre and to attract interest in his personality, to promote the heritage of the great poet. This year we will focus not only on Pushkin's poetry. The theme of the conference and webinar is “Alexander Pushkin - a historian, prose writer, playwright”.

Visitors will find performances by specialists from museums, libraries and other cultural institutions. They are devoted to prose works, Pushkin’s work on historical works, the poet’s communication with the historiographer Nikolai Karamzin and other issues. For the first time, new forms of performances will be presented at the webinar: literary and musical composition, theatrical reading, and romances based on poetry.

The participants of the event will recall Pushkin’s visit to different regions of Russia, however, special attention will be paid to the poet’s stay in the southern exile, since in 2020 this historical event will mark 200 years. The Presidential Library prepared a video clip based on materials from the Earth and Sea Foundation: a memory of. Pushkin’s southern exile”. The book of Peter Ivanovich Bartenev Pushkin in Southern Russia, available on the Presidential Library’s portal, touches upon very interesting recollections of this period.

Another anniversary date is the 190th anniversary of the Boldino autumn of 1830. Participants of the event will be introduced to the film by A. Belousov and Yu. Nemtsov “Invitation to Boldino”, which became the nominee of the XII open All-Russian festival of documentaries “Salt of the Earth”.

The Presidential Library’s collections contain a large number of publications telling about the life and work of the poet, some of which are available in the electronic collection Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837).

It includes digital copies of books, articles, archival documents, abstracts, dissertations, videos, postcards, drawings and paintings depicting the poet and people of his circle. The collection contains articles from pre-revolutionary periodicals that allow you to see how the attitude towards the poet and his work has changed over time. Of interest are also materials devoted to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the poet.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 12:00, February 7, 2020.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form with the note “Media accreditation” to the email addresses: media@prlib.ru, hudjakova@prlib.ru Alexandra Khudyakova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 167; mob. +7 (981) 788-28-08.

The letter should include the name, date and place of birth, passport data (series, number, place of registration), a list of carry-on equipment, contact numbers, name of the media.

We draw the attention of media representatives that it is necessary to forward applications for accreditation and arrive at the event in advance.

Admission to the Presidential Library is possible only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: media representatives go through entrance № 2; participants and guests of the event go through entrance № 1.