Happy birthday, Alexander, "our everything"

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Today marks the 212 anniversary of the birth of great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. For the first time the birthday of Pushkin in Russia and abroad will be single day of the Russian language. The large-scale cultural and educational event will cover 100 countries. On the basis of Russian scientific and cultural centers will host an event dedicated to the poet, and the language in which he wrote. Today, Russian language - a means of interethnic and intercultural dialogue, one of the working languages ​​of the UN, and still, the language of great literature.

The main celebrations will unfold in the Russian capital. The poet was born in Moscow, in the same city, was baptized and spent his childhood years. In the first-throned, he met his future wife, Natalia Goncharova, was married and spent his first months in the family house on the Arbat.

In the morning many admirers of Pushkin lay flowers at the monument to the poet in the city center, which will be played classic poems and passages from his prose works.

Entrance to the State Pushkin Museum and all its affiliates on this day will be free. The central building on Prechistenka will be held different views. Pushkin Museum will dedicate the evening to the great poet. Everyone will be able to enjoy a symphony concert, whose program written by the famous composer Georgy Sviridov musical illustrations to Pushkin's story "Snowstorm." The cultural center will show the performance of "The Fisherman and the Fish Pushkin in two parts," directed by Andrew Berkutova.

House-Museum Ermolayeva invites for the evening, a memory, which will show a feature film about the life and work of the great Russian poet, "And I'm with you again."

On the same day at the residence of Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Russia will be a presentation of the Pushkin monument by the famous sculptor Gregory Potocki. This monument will be installed June 12 in Egypt.

In St. Petersburg, Russian Pushkin Museum has organized a program on June 6, will be celebrating the birthday of the poet. In the courtyard of the museum at nab. River Embankment, 12 held a ceremony "Tribute to the poet" at the monument to Pushkin. There will also be presented the new edition of Pushkin's fairy tales. " For those wishing to be organized bus tour of "A. Pushkin in St. Petersburg with a visit to the place duel at Black River. In the museum-estate GRDerzhavin opens exhibition of works by contemporary artists, "a friend of Pushkin VI Dal. Proverbs of the Russian people. " A complete evening presentation of the annual Literary Arts Award "Petropolis".

Monument to Alexander Pushkin will open in October 2011 in Baghdad University in Iraq. As reported today, executive secretary of Pushkin's section of the Union of Writers of Russia Igor Novoselov, a monument will be installed at the Department of Foreign Languages ​​University, where there is a department of the Russian language. The project's author - well-known Moscow sculptor Nikolai Kuznetsov, Murom. teatral-online ru