Marina Tsvetaeva’s influence on Russian literature to be spotlighted at the Presidential Library’s video lecture

On October 20, 2022 at 11:00 am Moscow time the Presidential Library will host a video lecture “Through every heart, through every net…” to mark the 130th anniversary of the birth of Marina Tsvetaeva as part of the Knowledge of Russia project.

"A beggar woman, but with royal manners", a poet of "radiant dreams and victorious tunes", "haughty and confused", "chased", "savage", author of "sluggish and unintelligible verses with exclamation marks in every line", "dissolute", "powerful" - this is how her contemporaries defined Tsvetaeva. A poet of enormous talent, which did not fit either fate or the era, Tsvetaeva caused both rejection and admiration among readers and colleagues.

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of the History of Western European and Russian Literature at the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University Ksenia Yegorova will tell about the life and creative path of Marina Tsvetaeva, the influence of emigration on the way she writes.

Her youth passed in the house in Borisoglebsky Lane in Moscow, which now houses Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum. Natalia Shainyan, Candidate of Art History, senior researcher at Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum, will show video lecture participants this period of the poet's life.

The Presidential Library’s video lecture will be focused on Tsvetaeva's plays, which were unknown for a long time and turned out to be the most "unread" in her oeuvre. “I don’t honor the theater, I don’t reach for the theater”, - wrote Marina Ivanovna. However, the dramatic fabric appeared already in her early poems. Marina Tsvetaeva's theatre, the peculiarities of her dramaturgy will be devoted to the performance of the candidate of art history, associate professor of the performing arts department of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts Jamila Kumukova.

“Ever since I can remember, it seemed to me that I want to be loved. Now I know and tell everyone: I don’t need love, I need understanding”, - Tsvetaeva wrote in a letter to Pyotr Yurkevich. The way to "understand" Marina Tsvetaeva, a man of "sparks and abyss", will be told at the Presidential Library’s video lecture.  

The event is free. The meeting will be broadcast on the Presidential Library’s portal in Live broadcasts section in accordance with the program of live events, as well as on the institution's Rutube- and Telegram-channels.

The video lecture will be held at the Presidential Library at Senate Square, 3. Please forward applications for participation by 12:00 on October 19, 2022 to cep@prlib.ru.

Video lectures are regularly held in the Presidential Library. Detailed information is available on the institution’s portal in the section Audiovisual materials in the heading Video lectures, which provides recordings of lectures held at the Presidential Library.

Accreditation of media representatives is until 12:00 October 19, 2022.

Please forward applications for accreditation until 12:00 August 29, 2022 following the attached form marked “Media Accreditation” to media@prlib.ru, pechnikova@prlib.ru, Tatyana Pechnikova, tel.: (812) 305-16-21, ext. 534; mob. +7 921 998-06-78.

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.