Национальная библиотека Республики Карелия

In 2012 Pushkin Poetry Festival was held in the National Library of the Republic of Karelia at the beginning of summer.

This year birthday of Alexander Pushkin was celebrated by not only lovers of his poetry but also by the Nature. Rain, which has been pouring for a week, suddenly stopped, and people saw a blue sky above. Each of the guests of the festival (by the way, there were more than 900 people) entered the atmosphere of magic, fantasy and games. That evening adults and children were met by the characters of Pushkin's fairy tales in the video installation “There stands…” After passing through this magical installation, the guests entered the atmosphere of Pushkin's time and space of new information technologies.

 

For the visitors were organized musical lounge “I write to you …”, where soloists of the State Philharmonic of the Republic of Karelia performed, and a puppet performance based on “The Tale about the Fisherman and the Fish” by Pushkin and directed by Boris Kudryavtsev. Doll exhibitions made by Anna Selifanova and Zinaida Kolesnikova amazed children and their parents, and ancient folios, engravings and lithographs made everybody feel the atmosphere of Pushkin's time.

Our partner, digital supermarket Key, presented new book readers to the audience, and the bookstore Bukvoed sold paper books with big discounts.

 

And, of course, presents and games are essential for a festival. A children quiz devoted to Pushkin was held in a lending department. Quizmasters were the Swan Princess and the Learned Cat. Children got a lot of candies for right answers.

Many of the guests visited a portrait studio organized by Evgeny Kargin and get a stylized portrait.

The special atmosphere reigned at the Pushkin's monument. The most faithful poetry lovers have come there to read Pushkin's poems in different languages. Our colleagues from Finland read poems in Finnish. At the end of festival guests laid flowers to the Pushkin's monument.

 

 

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