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Through the eyes of Gogol. From July 7th 2009 till January 2010
Responding to the main literary event of 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Russian great writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), the Russian Museum of Ethnography opened an exhibition "Through the Eyes of Gogol: Ethnographic Impressions and Literary Text". Its objective was to show cultural habitat of Russian and Ukrainian peasantry, which inspired the writer for creation of two apparently different and even opposite in their tone works the "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831-1832), and the "Dead Souls" (1835-1842).
These works are united by poetic depiction of Russian and Ukrainian peoples as spiritual creative force. The exhibition suggests the "ethnographic reading" of these works, which supposes certain change of traditional angle of vision, for rather than panoramic review of characters it offers excusive acquaintance with those fragments, which produce this unique ethnographic enchantment.
In text the surrounding reality transforms in author's metaphor, and the world, dismantled in separate elements and reintegrated in new way, makes reader to look more closely to this cultural habitat, which as a rule is recognized only at distance.
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