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Photo Exhibition “Daysaku Ikeda. Dialogue With Nature” opened in Stanatsa Karginskaya

On February 25, 2020 the photo exhibition "Dialogue with Nature" by the Japanese philosopher, thinker, writer, teacher, publicist and peacemaker Daisaku Ikeda opened in the stanitsa Karginskaya, in the compound of T.A. Kargin of the National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the largest Japanese secular Buddhist organization, Soka Gakkai International (SGI). 

The first at the opening ceremony was the director of the National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve Olga Anistratenko. She greeted all the guests of the exhibition and emphasized that a separate and special place at the exhibition was reserved for the significant meeting of D. Ikeda and M. Sholokhov in 1974 as part of the first visit of a Japanese photographer to the USSR. Then Ikeda turned to the organizers of his trip with only one but urgent request - to facilitate a meeting with Sholokhov. Two writers, united by the idea of ??the triumph of humanism and peace on the whole planet, talked for a long time, touching on literary and life issues. 

Summing up the conversation “heart to heart” with the great Russian writer of the 20th century, D. Ikeda noted: “The conversation with M. Sholokhov is imprinted in my soul as an eternal secret moment of my life.” 

Tatyana Nikonova, head of the Karginsky memorial and historical complex, read out D. Ikeda’s greeting on the occasion of the opening of his photo exhibition on Sholokhov’s earth: “For me there is no greater joy and honor than having the opportunity today to hold an exhibition of my photographs in Karginsky land, where childhood and boyhood of dear to my heart, the great writer Mikhail Sholokhov passed. Let me express my most sincere gratitude to the leadership of the National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, led by its director Olga Anistratenko and all employees for their warm attention and tremendous efforts to organize my photo exhibition. ... I will be extremely happy if my photographs help visitors to the exhibition to notice the beauty always and everywhere in our daily lives. I sincerely wish you, dear residents of the stanitsa Karginskaya, so that the warm light of good and happiness shines even brighter in your hearts, spreading all over your land.” 

On the opening day, the exhibition was visited by residents and guests of the stanitsa Karginskaya, graduates of the Karginskaya secondary school named after M. Sholokhov and its director Tatyana Govorukhina, as well as deputy head of the Bokovsky district Sergey Lukyanov, managing the affairs of the Administration of the Bokovsky district Galina Antipova and the head of the department of culture of the Bokovsky district Gennady Vecherkin. 

After the official opening ceremony, the guide of the museum-reserve Marina Kozina conducted the first tour of the exhibition for guests, which is presented in six directions: gifts of nature, poetry, ode, harmony, life and light. Each direction is accompanied by small essays and poems by D. Ikeda. 

At the end, the cartoon “Boy and Sakura”, based on the plot of the fairy tale by D. Ikeda, was demonstrated, which refers to a boy who showed courage and kindness so that sakura blossomed in the post-war ruins of Tokyo, which is a symbol of the revival of the post-war world. 

Photo exhibition “Daisaku Ikeda. Dialogue with Nature” traveled over 140 cities in 40 countries. It visited France, Sweden, Austria, Russia, China, the USA, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia and others. At the end of 2019, in honor of the 45th anniversary of the meeting of Daisaku Ikeda and Mikhail Sholokhov, the exhibition was exhibited at the Sholokhov Center. In the year of the 115th anniversary of the birth of M. Sholokhov its journey around the world exhibition “Daisaku Ikeda. Dialogue with Nature” begins with the stanitsa where the literary work of the Nobel laureate began. It will be presented in the stanitsa Karginskaya from February 25 to May 23, 2020. 

Entrance to the exhibition is free. 

Anastasia Chukarina