International Tsvetaeva Readings "Through Every Heart ..." in Yelabuga

On September 12, in the new conference hall of the Yelabuga State Museum-Reserve, the opening of the IX International Tsvetaeva Readings "Through Every Heart ..." and the ceremony of awarding the 9th Literary Award named after M.I. Tsvetaeva was held.

Participants in the Tsvetaeva Readings visited places associated with the poet's name. At the Petropavlovskoye cemetery, flowers were placed on the grave of the poetess, and her poems were heard here in Russian, Tatar, French, Japanese, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, English, Armenian and Greek.

Laying flowers to the monument of the poetess  passed, and on the square bearing her  name, after which all were invited to the Silver Age Library to open the exhibition of works of the second international Yelabuga triennial ex-libris, held in 2015 and dedicated to M. Tsvetaeva.

At the inauguration of the IX International Tsvetaeva Readings,  Deputy Head of the Executive Committee of Yelabuga Municipal District for Social Affairs Ludmila Rybakova,  Head of the Department for the Development of the Museum Affairs of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan Damir Natullin, General Director of the Elabuga State Museum-Reserve Gulzada Rudenko and  Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs Activity of Yelabuga Institute of Kazan Federal University Rinat Ibatulli n.

This year, the organizing committee of the Literary Prize named after M.I. Tsvetaeva filed 98 applications from 10 countries: Russia, Spain, Italy, Serbia, Czech Republic, Japan, Greece, Estonia, Israel and Kazakhstan. Among the applicants were scientists, researchers of life and work of the poetess, translators of Tsvetaeva's creativity, writers, poets, authors-performers. Out of this number, the jury selected three laureates, the awarding of which was held today.

This is Tatyana Gorkova (nomination "Popularization of the creative work by M.I. Tsvetaeva in Russia"), which for 25 years has been engaged in the poet's work as a literary critic and editor. In the nomination "Popularization of creativity M.I. Tsvetaeva abroad "Galina Vanechkova became a laureate - a Czech researcher, translator and publicist, professor at Prague University. She has been studying the poet's work since 1961. The winner of the award in the nomination "Poetic Collection" was the Moscow poet, the author of five poetic books Viktor Kiryushin.

All the laureates were awarded medals with the image of Marina Tsvetaeva, a certificate and a cash prize of 100 thousand rubles.

Then, according to the tradition,  co-chairman of the National Civil Committee "Public Recognition", academician of the International Academy of Television and Radio Broadcasting and the Academy of Russian Literature Alexander Mikhailov presented a gold medal "Public Recognition" to Lyudmila Rybakova, deputy head of the EMR Executive Committee for Social Affairs, the head of the Memorial Museum of the YeMMZ Roza Ibragimova , the artist-expositionist of YeGMZ Rabis Salyahov,  head of the Museum of the history of the city YeMMZ Ekaterina Kashapova and  head of the community Tansyl Khusnullina.

Then heads of enterprises and organizations were invited to the stage, who rendered to the Yelabuga State Museum-Reserve charitable help in repairing the new building, which housed stock storage and a conference hall. They were given Letters of appreciation and gifts from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan and the museum-reserve.

After that the stage was given to the People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the Literary Prize named after. M.I. Tsvetaeva Antonina Kuznetsova. She came up with a program in which poems and excerpts from prose works by Marina Tsvetaeva, Andrei Bely, Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, Alexei Remizov and other representatives of the Silver Age were heard.

This day was concluded by the concert program "Silver thread" by Elmira Galeeva, the author of music and the performer  of songs on verses by poets of the Silver age. This evening, in her musical interpretation, the works by Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Osip Mandelstam sounded.

On September 13, the 9th International Tsvetaeva Readings continued its work in the auditoriums of the Yelabuga Institute of KFU.