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The Museum Joined the Contest “Topical Classics: from Pushkin to Chekhov”

The National M.A.Sholokhov Museum-Reserve jointly with the Sholokhov gymnasium and central library of Stanitsa Vyoshenskaya took part in the contest for the best educational project “Topical Classics: from Pushkin to Chekhov”.

The contest was organized by the Russian State Children Library jointly with the Russian Book Union, Russian Academy of Education, the Russian A.I. Herzen State Pedagogical University, the Taganrog Administration and the All-Russian A.S.Pushkin Museum. The contest was joined by the educational and cultural institutions and organizations from 40 regions of Russia. 152 projects were submitted to the jury for consideration.

By an open vote of the jury the project “Literary Trail “Genius Loci” entered the top twenty best projects. Of the total number of the works submitted, only two museums with their projects (including the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov) were among the contenders for victory.

The essence of the presented project was a solution of educational tasks of environmental, biological, literary and artistic content through a literary trail “Genius Loci” with the included literary components of the writers’ personal areas designed in the “land-art” style. Such a combination of environment, geography, literature and land art embodies the classics in a visible image making Russian classical literature “…close, interesting and topical for the younger generation…”

For the presented project the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov will be awarded a certificate of the finalist and an invitation to prepare the materials for publication in the book “100 Projects about Reading: Topical Initiatives-2018”.

Oksana Turchina