Literary evening dedicated to the 110th anniversary of P. Vasilyev

The Regional Library named after S. Toraigyrov together with the Centralized Library System of the city of Pavlodar held the “Kazakhstan in the life and poetry of Pavel Vasilyev” literary evening as part of the project “Personality. Book. Time” on December 26.

At the meeting, representatives of the creative community spoke about the poet, who combined two cultures, two spirituality - European and Asian. Students of school-gymnasium No. 9 performed poems of the poet. Galina Baikenova told about the history of the school museum of Pavel Vasilyev. The head of the Museum of Pavel Vasilyev Zakiya Merts told about the poet's anniversary events. Serik Satybaldin spoke about translations of P. Vasilyev’s prose into Kazakh. Koreshkova Tatyana, the curator of the museum fund of Pavel Vasilyev spoke about the difficult fate of the poet, about his daughter Natalya Pavlovna, who to this day replenishes the museum with memories and stories from her father's life. Victor Polikarpov and Ivan Kandybaev shared their own perception of the poet's work. The famous composer A. Amosov wrote the music based on the poems by P. Vasilyev “Snegiri”. This song performed by Rafael Mukhamedzhanov was the musical decoration of the evening.