Virtual exhibition dedicated to the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila" presented in Kurgan

On the eve of Pushkin's Day of Russia, the opening of the virtual exhibition “The Tradition of Glory and Love” took place in the Kurgan Regional Center of the Presidential Library. The presentation is dedicated to the first poem of Alexander Pushkin "Ruslan and Lyudmila".

The virtual exhibition consists of three sections. The first of them tells the story of the creation of the poem. Even at the Lyceum, Pushkin decided to sing the heroic daring in his own work, inspired by the "Furious Roland" by Ludovico Ariosto, as well as the books of Nikolai Karamzin "Ilya Muromets" and Nikolai Radishchev "Alyosha Popovich". The second section features books and records from the collections of the Yugov Kurgan Regional Universal Scientific Library. The third includes fragments of theatrical productions, films and excerpts of musical works.

The electronic collections of the Presidential Library contain more than 400 different materials spotlighting the life and career of the great poet. The collection of Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) includes books, journal articles, archival affairs, and films containing biographical information; works devoted to the analysis of the writer's works and his place in the literary life of society.

Based on the materials of http://yugovalib.ru/site/ portal.