To the 71st anniversary of the Great Victory: The exhibition “Saratov poets of the Great Patriotic War” in Saratov

The Saratov Regional Museum opened the exhibition "Saratov poets of the Great Patriotic War". It is timed to the 71st anniversary of the Great Victory.

The exhibition features photographs, personal items, scraps of frontline newspapers, notebooks and other military documents of Saratov war poet Boris Ozerny, Leo Prozorovskiy, Vadim Zemnoy, Nicholas Palkin, Isaiah Tobolsky, Victor Timohin, as well as poet and artist Victor Borzov. A unique exhibit is a self-made book of poetry with the author's drawings of the artist, art teacher V. N. Borzov. Employees of the A. S. Pushkin Children's Library in 1942 created a homemade exhibition-book "Song of Vengeance". It consists of newspaper clippings of poems, published in national and local newspapers. Along with the works of professional writers it contains verses of soldiers of the army.

Despite the difficult wartime conditions, Saratov publishers found the possibility to publish literary and poetry collections. These were the books of small format, with a small circulation, but they are in great demand. Among the publications of the war years - the almanac "Homeland", released in 1943. It has become a symbolic continuation of the eponymous collection in 2015, compiled by the poet's daughter-war veteran B. Ozerny Svetlana Durnova.  

There are exhibited front pad and wartime documents of Saratov poet I. G. Tobolsky. Throughout the war, he was a correspondent for the front of newspapers: the South-Western Front, in Stalingrad, in the Kuban region, in the Crimea. In 1942 he released his first poetry collection "Road to the west", presented at the exhibition. The poster of 1945, issued in honor of the Victory, features verses by I. G. Tobolsky.