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18/02/2024. The Russian Tea Culture program took place at the National Library of Karelia
February 18, 2024:
The National Library of Karelia held the folklore creative program The Russian Tea Culture dedicated to the 145th anniversary of Stepan Pisakhov. The event was a great success.
Yuri Tikhomirov, a great connoisseur of northern Russian prose and a patron of our library, read several of Pisakhov’s fairy tales. The event was brightened by members of the Pitaritsy, Dobrenitsy and Kudelyushka ensembles, who performed songs directly related to tea drinking. Tatyana Romashova and Galina Maslova performed the Two Girlfriends composition based on the fairy tale by Stepan Pisakhov.
Yuri Tikhomirov also told about tea culture in different villages of Russian Pomors’. The program was a great success and will be remembered by the audience for a long time.
Stepan Pisakhov (1879, Arkhangelsk — 1960, Arkhangelsk) was a Russian writer, ethnographer, storyteller, artist, and art teacher. He is known mainly for stories from the life of Pomors.
