Memorable dates of Russia: Exhibition “The storm of year 1812…” in Saint-Petersburg

The exhibition "The storm of year 1812...» timed to the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, is opening on August 24, 2012 at the memorial flat of A. A. Blok (Saint-Petersburg) in the framework of the permanent exhibition "Block and his environment". It brought together thirty editions of the XIX century with poems and memories of war.

The Patriotic War of 1812 was praised by many Russian poets - those who fought in those days with the enemy, as Denis Davydov, Konstantin Batyushkov; and those who were then an adolescent, like Pushkin, and those who was not born yet, like Lermontov.

The exhibition is dedicated to the "sounds of a lyre" of poets, who have sung to the events of those days.Eeditions of the XIX centuries present memories of witnesses and participants of military events – F. N. Glinka, R. Wilson, C. Laugier - and dedicated the 1812 war poems of D. V. Davydov, V. V. Kapnist, V. A. Zhukovsky, E. A. Baratynsky, K. N. Batyushkov, A. S. Pushkin, N. I. Butyrsky, K. K. Pavlova. A particular attention is paid to the publication of the poems by M. Y. Lermontov, prepared with the assistance of A. A. Blok. "Notes of a Russian officer" and "Letters to a Friend" by F. N. Glinka of 1815 and 1817's are of the rare books at the exhibition.

The exhibition is enriched with two medals issued by Saint-Petersburg Mint to the 100th anniversary of the war.