Lecture series “Portraits of Russian Writers” launched at the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Rome

The Russian Center of Science and Culture in Rome hosted a series of lectures “Portraits of Russian Writers”, dedicated to the great Russian classics, how they look at us from famous pictorial portraits.

The theme of the first lecture was the image of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov (1872), included in the portrait collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The work of Dostoevsky has long and firmly received the great love of Italian readers. Its popularity in the Apennine peninsula is explained by the fact that the author himself was not indifferent to this country and visited it three times. No wonder that this evening, numerous students of Roman universities, journalists, philologists, philosophers and writers, as well as representatives of diplomatic structures came to the RCSC.

The project’s curator Irina Dvizova told the guests about the most famous works of the author, about his character which was influenced by events in life, about relationship with Perov. The basis of historical and social analysis were taken memories of the writer's contemporaries and literary fragments.

The Presidential Library website features the electronic collection “F. M. Dostoevsky (1821–1881)”. It includes digital copies of the texts of his works and materials about the life and work of the writer.

Based on materials of http://rs.gov.ru.