Cultural and educational event of the Presidential Library spotlight the poets of the Silver Age

March 4, 2021, at 11:00 Moscow time, the Presidential Library will host a cultural and educational event "Following the poets of the Silver Age" as part of the Knowledge of Russia video lecture project. The event is organized jointly with the Novgorod Regional Universal Scientific Library.

The video lecture is free. The meeting will be held remotely and will be broadcasted live on the Presidential Library's portal in Live broadcasts section in accordance with the program of live events, on the institution's YouTube channel and on the VKontakte social network.

The event will involve lectures, recitation of poems and the performance of songs to the words of the poets of the Silver Age.

The presenter of the Knowledge of Russia video lecture, methodologist Anton Druzhevsky, will tell about the electronic documents of the Presidential Library dedicated to the poets of the Silver Age and read poems by Boris Pasternak and Sergei Yesenin; the head of the Presidential Library’s Poetry Club, Maria Bishokova, will tell about its events in honor of the poets of the Silver Age, about their influence on modern poetry and read the poems of Osip Mandelstam.

Alyona Kulakova, a poet from Volgograd, will read several poems by Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva; an aspiring actress (workshop of Yu. M. Tsurkanu) by Alexander Rusakov-Morozov - a poem by Sasha Cherny to “the Sick”; poet Alina Treskunova will perform a song to the verses of Marina Tsvetaeva "Under the caress of a plush blanket".

The event will feature multiple winners of reading contests, members of the Patriot club, students of grade 10 "A" from school No. 323 in the Nevsky District of St. Petersburg, Polina Fokeeva and Maxim Shuvalov.

At the heart of the speech by Marina Paskul (Grigorieva), head of the department of innovation activities of the Okulovsky Library and Information Center, poet, local historian, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, is "Mikhail Kuzmin's Diary of 1907-1911", where the life of the pre-Soviet outback and those of is shown through the eyes of the poet of the Silver Age and its inhabitants who, by the will of fate, became the heroes of numerous works by Mikhail Kuzmin. The pages of the diary bring to life the people with whom he communicated and were friends.

The lecture of the Candidate of Philological Sciences, chief librarian of the scientific and methodological department of the "Novgorod Regional Universal Scientific Library" Ekaterina Ligus "Poet by the grace of God: Konstantin Fofanov on the Novgorod land" is dedicated to one of the brightest representatives of Russian poetry of the late XIX - early XX century, the "last romantic" , whose poetic talent was compared by contemporaries to Pushkin's. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for about three years Fofanov lived in Novgorod and Staraya Russa, leaving a noticeable mark on the social and literary life of the Novgorod province. The general public, however, did not know the works of Konstantin Fofanov of this period for a long time.

The presentation by Anna Goregina, a methodologist on scientific and educational activities of the A. A. Blok Museum-Apartment, is dedicated to the career of Alexander Blok, his role in the cultural process of the Silver Age and modernity.

The culmination of the meeting will be the speeches of the participants in the "Rose of Poetry" project - an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry, a constellation of talented poets from different parts of Russia.

Poets, leaders of the creative association “Rose of Poets” Nino Sabanadze and Alexei Krasnyansky will tell about their book “Akhmatova. Poets about a poet”, and singers, laureates of international competitions Maria Golik and Mikhail Kuznetsov will perform several songs based on the poems of the Silver Age poets.

The participants of the video lecture are:

• Secretary of the Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian Society, independent researcher Natalia Schwartz;

• Nikita Popov, teacher of the additional education department for children of secondary school No. 151 of St. Petersburg;

• Librarian of the National Library of Russia Ekaterina Smirnova;

• Honorary Worker of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, veteran of pedagogical work Irina Gribova;

• Staff of the Anna Akhmatova Museum.

Interactive lessons and video lectures are regularly held in the Presidential Library. More information about them is available on the institution's portal in the Multimedia lessons section and in the Video lectures for school section, which features records of lectures and open lessons held in the Presidential Library.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 11:00 March 3, 2021.

Please forward applications for accreditation following the attached form marked “Media Accreditation” to the following e-mail addresses: media@prlib.ru, titunina@prlib.ru Kristina Titunina, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 781; mob. +7 (999) 218-05-98.

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

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

Entrance to the Presidential Library is carried out only by prior registration and upon showing a passport: for media representatives - through entrance № 2, participants and guests of the event - through entrance № 1.

In order to reduce the risks of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), the use of personal protective equipment during the event is mandatory for all attendees.