Memory of Russia: The Solzhenitsyn Museum to be open to the 100th anniversary of the writer in Ryazan

Ryazan celebrates the 95th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and plans to create a museum of the outstanding writer.

The Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Ryazan region Galina Sokolova told the details.

According to the Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Ryazan Region Galina Sokolova, in these jubilee days is being discussed the creation of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Museum in Ryazan. It is expected that such a museum in the city, where the writer has lived 12 fruitful years, will appear in five years - to his 100th anniversary.

In Ryazan Alexander Solzhenitsyn came after his rehabilitation in 1956, because his first wife, Natalya Reshetovskaya, worked there at the Institute. In Ryazan was written "One day of Ivan Denisovich", after the publication in which in the "New World", were talking about the appearance of Russian literature of a great writer. There was written "Matryona’s Place" and other works, here he begins to "unusually much" - " The Gulag Archipelago", " The First Circle", "Cancer Ward".

Among the events dedicated to the anniversary date, the Minister called an intellectual game for high school students to demonstrate the knowledge of Solzhenitsyn, the exposure of the writer in the Gorky Library, a bibliographic exhibition "Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Personality. Creativity. Time" posted on the library website. Moreover, these days in the Ryazan region are held exhibitions, tours, literary evenings.

But the main event is the International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Legacy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in contemporary cultural space in Russia and abroad", which takes place on 16-17 December 2013. The participation in the conference is taken by philologists, historians, philosophers, historians, political scientists, museums and archives professionals, teachers, schools and universities of the seventeen regions of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and China.