Pushkin in Copenhagen

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Irina Bjørnø. Pushkin in Copenhagen

Introduction

Thanks to all sponsors

Inauguration of the Pushkin Monument in Copenhagen

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Kingdom of Denmark, mr. Mikhail V. Vanin

Chief-librarian of the Royal Danish Library, Hans K. Mikkelsen

Director of the Russian center for Science and Culture in Copenhagen, prof. Artem A. Markarjan

President of the International Foundation “Dialogue of Cultures – United World”, Ruslan Bayramov

“A Chameleon in Bronze”, A. Engberg-Pedersen, assoc. prof, the University of Southern Denmark

From the opening Ceremony

Who helped us with making the book

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To the right from A. Pushkin – Russian Ambassador M.V. Vanin, to the left – chef librarian H.K. Mikkelsen

Every fairy tale has its beginning. Our story began in Russia when a young poet, Alexander Pushkin, copied his early poems by hand with a goose feather, glued the pages in a small notebook and gave it to his brother, Lev Sergeevich, to send the notebook to the censorship. The notebook was only 19 pages of lyceum poems by a young poet. It happened in the spring of 1825.

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The poem “Awakening” (1816) was written on the first page of Pushkin’s autograph, and on the back there was a part of the poem “To a friend” with some remarks made by Pushkin (II of Elegies, 1816).

Time passes. And again in 1952, after the war, a representative of the Academy of Sciences, Professor I.E. Glushchenko arrives to Copenhagen. He again made pictures of Pushkin’s manuscript and a letter from the storyteller Andersen with gratitude to his Russian acquaintance. A wonderful handwritten page from the missing Kapnist’s copybook is still carefully stored in the Royal Library of Denmark.

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