Pushkin Poetic Evening held

By A Staff Reporter,Kathmandu, June 8:The 225th birth anniversary of Russian poet, playwright and novelist Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was marked by organising the Pushkin Poetic Evening in the capital on Thursday evening. 

Honoured as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature, Pushkin was born on June 6,1799, in Moscow. The day is  also marked as Russian Language Day.

Organised jointly by the Nepal Russia Literature Society and the Russian House in Kathmandu, the event was inaugurated by Chancellor of Nepal Music and Theatre Academy Nisha Sharma by garlanding the image of Pushkin at the courtyard of the Russian Cultural Centre, Kamalpokhari.

At the function, Jangab Chauhan, Ashok Thapa, Momila, Nisha Sharma, Bishnu Bahadur Singh, Sushma Khatry Ranjit and Sanjay Shrestha recited some famous poems by Pushkin. The poems were translated in Nepali from Russian by the chairman of the Nepal Russia Literature Society,  Jangab Chauhan.

Co-director of the Russian House Anushavanyan, welcoming the guests, opined that there was own Pushkin in every man.

Ram Bindu Shrestha, Sushil Sigdel, Chandra Kant Acharya and others also expressed their views on the late Pushkin.

Pushkin had many world-famous works including Eugene Onegin, The Captain's Daughter, Boris Godunov, Ruslan and Ludmila to his credit. He died of peritonitis, caused by a duel with his relative, on  February 10, 1837, at the age of 37.