National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

06.06.2016

Book «Kuzma Chorny. Man is the whole world» to be presented in Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of NAS of Belarus

On June 8, 2016 at 16.00 pm the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus jointly with the State Museum of History of Belarusian literature hold commemorative event "Prayer for the Fatherland", dedicated to the presentation of the book "Kuzma Chorny. Man is the whole world" (Mіnsk, 2016), which was published in publishing house "Mastatskaya Litaratura" in the series "Life of famous people of Belarus". Compiler — Galina Shablinskaya.

The event will be attended by literary researchers Mihas Mushinski, Vyacheslav Ragoysha Irina Bogdanovich, the grandson K. Chorny, translator Mykola Romanovsky, Director of the Literary Museum of Kuzma Chorny in Timkovichi Lyudmila Nizhevich, writers Kastus Tsvirko, Anatol Butevich, Vasil Zuenok, Director of Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art Anna Zapartyko, People's Artists of Belarus Maria Zaharevich, Viktor Manaev, bard Ales Kamotski.

The anniversary edition, with a volume of 500 pages, contains memories, articles, essays, interviews of relatives and friends, literary researchers, artists. Conceptually the book consists of five chapters. The first is about the family and the Romanovskii family line, the second includes the memories of K. Chorny contemporaries, the third is the view of literary researchers of different generations on the work of K. Chorny, the fourth — memoir and literary heritage of the writer, the fifth — the perpetuation of his memory. Several unique materials from the family archive of the writer, as well as letters of K. Chorny from the funds of the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Arts, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of the NAS of Belarus are published for the first time.

To the solemn event the staff of the Department of rare books and manuscripts and the State Museum of History of Belarusian Literature has prepared an exhibition "Kuzma Chorny. The magnitude of prose and humanity talent".

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