Writers and artists
The literary art event “Visiting The Places of Nekrasovskoe” will be held in Yaroslavl Region and is the initiative of the Yaroslavl Department of the Union of Russian Writers’ and The Open Air Center’s contacts ( artists from Yaroslavl, Danilov, Kostroma, Belgorod and Penza).
Jumping slightly ahead, I wish to express gratitude to the Department of Culture of Yaroslavl region for taking part in the organization and realization of such an unusual and unique event, which promises to be a magnificent event not only in our region, throughout Russia.
This kind of event is the result of a collaboration of artistic communities which represents 2 professions: writers and artists. More specifically ; it is a collaboration of poets and painters. In the future there will be further meetings of artists from our region.
On the 4th of June, the first presentation of pictures, poems and songs was held in Nekrasovskoe village. Artists from the Open Air center showed us more than 120 pictures (which they have been creating since the 26th of May in Nekrasovskoe, Greschnev, Karabkha and other places connected with N.A.Nekrasov).
Opening the presentation, the head of Nekrasov region N.V.Zolotnikov said that he hopes for similar events in the future, due to the genuine friendships and connections which blossomed between the painters and the poets. Cultural Assistant and Sport and Youth Ambassador E.V.Martyshkina agreed with N.V.Zolotnikov. The head of rural settlement Nekrasovskoe V.A.Losev and the chairman of cultural committee and tourism S.A.Chistyakova agreed that a meeting of the artistic community of writers and artists in the Year of Russian Literature is a useful event, directed to preserve and develop Russian culture.
One after another artists shared their impressions with others. There were artists from Yaroslavl –such as Yuriy Kazakov, Boris Gogin, Aleksandr Pavlov, Evgeniy Varnachev, Anton Bratykin, Inna Antonova, Svetlana Arsyuta, from Danilov – Vladimir Sereda, from Kostroma – Andrey Alekhin, VyacheslavKolobov, from Penza – DmitriySysoev, from Belgorod – YuriyChernyshov, Stanislav Dymov.
Incidentally, the chairman of Belgorod’s Union of Artists Stanislav Fedorovich adored “The song about painter” (poems by E.Gusev, music by G.Mityaev). This song opened the exhibition and now all future art exhibitions in Belgorod will open with this song as a tradition.
Every participant received a gift (a great merit of organizers and instigators of this event – Vitaliy Preobrazhenskiy, Ol’gaKazakova and the painter YuriyKazakov). Along with a magnificent diploma was a t-shirt with a portrait of the great Russian poet N.A.Nekrasov.
As usual, poet Viktor Levashov and singer Aleksandr Nesterchuk performed with their usual lustre.
The Nerkasov Literary Unity, under the guidance of Svetlana Komogortseva performed wonderfully with great poets Nataliya Rodionova, Anna Kokina, Evgeniya Rzhanova and singer Evgeniy Tsyganov.
In conclusion, guests and participants sincerely thanked the organizer and director of Nekrasov Museum of Local Lore – Tat’yana Loseva.
The closing event of Literary-Art Plein air “Visiting The Places of Nekrasovskoe” with poets and painters was held on the 4th of July 2015 in The State Memorial Museum-Preserve named after N.A.Nekrasov (“West Wing”, 2nd floor). There were pictures, painted during the exhibition from 26 of May – till 4 of June 2015, and Yaroslavl modern poets recited their poems.
The director of State Literary-Memorial Museum-Preseve named after N.A.Nerkasov, A.A.Ivushkin was sure, that this kind of event could not distract attention from the All-Russia festival of Nekrasov’s poetry. This event only enhanced the festival.
We absolutely agree with him.
Evgeniy Gusev,
Chairman of the Union of Russian Writers.