The Presidential Library to give over to the National Pushkin Museum first digitized unique historical document

Media Center of the National Pushkin Museum will open January 20, 2015 at 15:00, in the Museum-Estate of G. R. Derzhavin (118, Fontanka River Embankment) in honor of the Year of Literature and the 200th anniversary of the meeting of Alexander Pushkin and Gavrila Derzhavin.

As part of the event, the Presidential Library will give over to the museum first digitized "Charter granted to the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum by Emperor Alexander I, September 22, 1811", which is a unique historical monument and document, the most important material of the media center.

The ceremony will be attended by heads of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Director of the National Pushkin Museum Sergei Nekrasov and Director General of the Presidential Library Alexander Vershinin.

The first and only meeting of Pushkin and Derzhavin occurred January 20, 1815 (January 8, Old Style) at the Lyceum exam, where Derzhavin was invited. He arrived to Tsarskoye Selo from his mansion on Fontanka River, and, according to the recollections of eyewitnesses, young Pushkin was reading his ode "Memories of Tsarskoye Selo", standing a few steps from the venerable poet. Pushkin made a strong impression on Derzhavin. "Soon the world will know another Derzhavin: it will be Pushkin, who has outdone all the writers already at the Lyceum," he said to S. T. Aksakov.

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