Performance Eugene Onegin premiered in the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Kishinev

The solo performance based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel Eugene Onegin premiered with a big success on June 4, 2019 in the Pushkin Auditorium of the Russian Center of Science and Culture in Kishinev.

The performer - actor Ivan Golovin now lives in France, where he actively promotes Russian literature and art. For many years the artist has been a friend of the RCSC and the Alexander Pushkin House-Museum in Kishinev. He gives literary and musical performances and participates in events dedicated to Pushkin.

Ahead of the poet’s 220th anniversary of birth Ivan Golovin prepared a musical and literary composition based on the novel Eugene Onegin. It features music created by the outstanding Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev for a performance of the Moscow Kamerny Theater (based on one of Pushkin’s most famous works), which was not staged.

According to the spectators, Ivan Golovin’s solo performance gave them a chance to rediscover the masterpiece of the world literature and prompted them to read Pushkin’s novel in verse again.

The electronic collection “Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)”, which is available on the Presidential Library’s portal, is dedicated to the brilliant Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, founder of the literary realism in Russia and creator of the modern Russian literary language. The materials of the collection include a digital copy of the Charter granted by Emperor Alexander I to the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, which played a prominent role in Alexander Pushkin’s life. The collection is largely made up of articles from pre-revolutionary periodicals, which spotlight the change in the attitude towards the poet and his oeuvre over time.