Feedback from visitors is an important assessment of the museum work. People write their impressions, wishes or remarks in special guestbooks that can be found in every permanent exhibition. Besides, in the age of information technologies, they share personal opinions with the whole world in the Internet.
The meeting with Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich was held in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve in late July. It lasted for more than an hour and attracted a capacity crowd. Opinions of the event are still being sent to the museum by e-mail.
Olga Kolesova (Karbotka): “I should admit that I was glad and excited going to the hospitable conference hall of the museum-reserve to meet with Svetlana Aleksievich on July 22. I had a chance to see, to listen to and to speak to a writer of such a level for the first time in my life. I first faced the genre of a literary interview chosen by the writer initially when the material was stated with documentary accuracy, but was given as a fiction.
There were a lot of people in the conference hall as usual. The audience perceived the slow speech-reflection of Svetlana Aleksievich with interest. Unfortunately, the time flew, but we had an opportunity to continue communicating with the writer after the end of the meeting. And I could learn that every book was written during 5-7 years, 500-700 people were interviewed and then all material was processed. You can just imagine what it costs the author when you read the words about her state after the book “The Unwomanly Face of War” has been written, “Everybody has his or her own reserve of protection against pain – physical and psychological, mine was completely exhausted…”
I would like to express my gratitude to the museum employees for their contribution to the process of making Russia the most readable country”.
Tatiana Semyonova (Cherepovets): “Thank you very much for the meeting with writer Svetlana Aleksievich! All her works are familiar to everybody, but unluckily and to my shame, I haven’t read any of them. This unexpected meeting made me think of many things: life, people and certainly those subjects that the writer touches upon in her books. I thank the organizers of the event for a chance to meet with interesting and creative persons!”
