Alexander Pushkin’s Memory Day in the Presidential Library

The Presidential Library hosted a conference-webinar dedicated to Pushkin’s Memory Day. In the video-conference-connection mode, Pushkin’s scientists and librarians from Ufa, Irkutsk, Ulyanovsk, Grozny, Omsk, Barnaul, Chisinau (Moldova) and other cities took part in it. The meeting was attended by Alexei Balakin, a senior researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a scientific secretary of the Pushkin Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Director of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum Sergei Nekrasov presented in the Presidential Library the disk "Poets' Travels". The resource created for the grant of the President of the Russian Federation will be available to visitors of all the centers of the museum in the regions, its materials can be used in interactive classes, in contests and quizzes.

Irina Rosina, the head of the Media Center of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum, told the seminar participants about the new projects in the regions of the Russian Federation. First of all, these are projects implemented in close partnership with the libraries and regional museum centers: exhibitions based on digitized materials from the funds, web lectures of the leading museum staff, a series of seminars and internships, a media festival "I am Numbered in Russia", implemented jointly with the Central Library System Ulyanovsk literary and educational project "Pushkin in the Simbirsk region", where the poet came 185 years ago.

Internet-projects "Pushkin without Borders" (represented by the Pskov Regional Universal Scientific Library), "The first Translations of Alexander Pushkin into the Chechen Language" (the A. A. Aidamirov National Library of the Chechen), "Preservation of the Heritage of A. S. Pushkin on the Moldavian land" (Russian Center of Science and Culture in Chisinau) are also of interest.

Journalist and writer Elena Shvetsova gave the Presidential Library her book "Besy arapsky - Bessarabsky" about the Chisinau period of the poet's work. Elena Shvetsova has worked for six years in the media in Chisinau and it was then that she "fell ill" with Pushkin's theme. The book about the poet has been prepared for many years - and soon it will be digitized and will enter the fund of the Presidential Library.

Revealing the significance of Pushkin as a cultural phenomenon in her speech, Elena Kotova, the chairman of the committee for culture, sport and youth policy of the administration of the Tikhvinsky district of the Leningrad region, quoted Lydia Ginzburg: "Love for Pushkin (incomprehensible to foreigners) is a sure sign of a man of Russian culture. Any other writer can be loved or not loved - it's a matter of taste. But Pushkin as a phenomenon is mandatory for us. Pushkin - the core of Russian culture, which holds all the previous and all the following. Take out the rod - the connections will break".