Society and Culture: 50th Pushkin poetry festival dedicated to the day of his birth in the Mikhailovskoye State National Park and Museum

The 50th Pushkin Holiday of Poetry dedicated to the day of his birth, officially celebrated on June 3-6, 2016, at Mikhailovskoye village (The State National Park and Museum of A. S. Pushkin, Pskov Oblast). The tradition of such annual mass Festivity dates back to celebration in the Svyatye Gory (that means the “holly mountains”), on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin (1899), as well as the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of his exile to Mikhailovskoye village (1924) and the 100th anniversary of his death (1937). Since 1945, it has been a national holiday, closely associated with the stages of post-war reconstruction of the Pushkin National Park. It first received an international significance in 1949. Since June 1998 it is included in the general program of activities of the Pushkin Day in Russia (June 6).

"Long Live the Sun!" exhibition from the collection of the Pushkin State National Park and Museum opened as part of the festival with a purpose to familiarize with the pages of the museum’s history and to give a retrospective of the All-Union Pushkin Holidays of Poetry during 1960-1980 years, and moreover - basing on this cultural tradition and primarily through the classic black-and-white photography offer a dynamic documentary-artistic portrait of the Time.