On Friday 21 October, 14:00–17:00, the exhibition “Skáldskapurinn vaknar inni í mér” (Poetry awakens inside me) opened in Þjóðarbókhlaða, the library building at Arngrímsgata 3. The exhibition shows Yuri M. Ignatyev’s illustrations for the novel in verse Eugene Onegin by the Russian national poet Alexander S. Pushkin.
Programme at the opening:
Addresses: National Librarian Ingibjörg Steinunn Sverrisdóttir and Anton V. Vasiliev, Ambassador of Russia to Iceland. Talks: the writer and Russian scholar Árni Bergmann, and the translator Áslaug Agnarsdóttir, who spoke about Pushkin in Iceland.
Poetry reading: Olga Markelova, Russian poet and translator.
Introduction to the novel Eugene Onegin: Rebekka Þráinsdóttir, teacher in the Russian department of the University of Iceland.
There was also an open workshop by specialists from the Russian state cultural institution Pushkin Reserve. They demonstrated calligraphy with a quill pen of quotations from “Eugene Onegin” in Russian and Icelandic, and graphic printing of portraits of Alexander S. Pushkin.
The exhibition of Yuri M. Ignatyev’s illustrations for Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin will be open until 31 December.
The event is organised by the Embassy of the Russian Federation, the National and University Library of Iceland, the Federal Cultural Institution Mikhailovskoye – a literary, historical and nature museum devoted to Alexander S. Pushkin (the Pushkin Reserve) – and the State Scientific Library of the Pskov Region.
Catalogue (PDF, in Icelandic)
Panels (PDF, in Icelandic)