On February 10, Alexander Pushkin Memorial Day was held abroad. This year, commemorative events are also being held for the 225th anniversary of the writer.
In the “Moscow” business center, on the landmark date, the Russian House in Astana organized the exhibition space #Pushkin225, which became a platform for interesting excursions, reading contests, interactive lessons, fun games and quizzes. Almost five thousand people became its participants. The “Lukomorye” club, which united fans of Russian literature, also worked here. The project also included an exhibition of drawings based on Pushkin’s fairy tales and the seventh chapter of “Eugene Onegin”.
Children’s theatrical performance was organized at the Mikhail Sholokhov Memorial Museum in the village of Daryinskoye (Kazakhstan) with the support of the Russian House in Uralsk. Students prepared not only classical fragments of Pushkin’s fairy tales, but also presented modern interpretations of famous works. The participants were awarded diplomas and gift editions of books.
In Belarus, on the basis of the Grodno Humanitarian College, children read Pushkin’s poems and participated in a master class on making a postcard with the image of Alexander Pushkin in stone watercolor technique, using semi-precious stones.
The literary salon was held at the Russian House in Brest. Poems, excerpts from novels and fairy tales were read by Brest teachers and schoolchildren, employees of the representative office and guests. Young artists of the theater studio from the 25th school of Brest presented a miniature based on the poem “Gypsies”. And the pupils of the studio of the Russian House in Brest revived the story “Egyptian Nights” with oriental dances.
In Tajikistan, employees of the Russian Embassy and the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in Tajikistan laid flowers at the monument-bust of Pushkin in Dushanbe. The ceremony was held at the Russian-Tajik (Slavic) University. And students of the Faculty of Russian Philology of RTSU read the famous poems of the poet..
Hundreds of Chisinau residents of all ages came to Moldova to honor the memory of the creator of the modern Russian language. The participants laid flowers and also read the poet’s poems in two languages – Russian and Moldovan.
Flowers were also laid in Abkhazia and Armenia at the Pushkin Pass, where a monument to the writer was erected.