The exhibition titled “Do Good Deeds” timed to the bicentenary of Alexander Yashin’s birth is due to be opened in the conference hall of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve on October 8 at 14:00. The displayed works are given by the Vologda Regional Picture Gallery and the Vologda Regional Branch of the Union of Russian Artists. Visitors will be able to see them till November 1, 2013. Therefore do good deeds and come to our museum!
About the poet
Alexander Yashin (Popov) is the Soviet prose writer and poet, the laureate of the State Stalin Prize of the 2nd degree, the participant of the Great Patriotic War. He was born in the peasant family in the village of Bludnovo of the Vologda Province in 1913. Teachers of the seven-year school and the teacher’s training school in Nikolsk became his first tutors. Alexander Yashin’s works were first published in 1928. He lived in Vologda since 1932 and then moved to Moscow in the middle of the 1930s. He continued his study in the capital: he was a student of Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorky and worked as a deputy editor of the newspaper published in large editions. During the war, the poet participated in the defence of Leningrad and Stalingrad, in the liberation of the Crimea. Alexander Yashin travelled in the country a lot within the post-war years: he was in the North, the Altai, at the construction sites of hydroelectric power stations and the virgin soil. His impressions were reflected in the books of his verse “Fellow Countrymen”, “Soviet Person”, in the poem “Alyona Fomina” for which he was awarded the State Stalin Prize. Then he started to write prose – novels and stories. Many of his works remained incomplete. The poet died of cancer in 1968 and was buried in his native village. A street in Vologda was named after Alexander Yashin.
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