the Exhibition is timed to two significant events – the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war and the 100th anniversary since the birth of the war poet David Samoilov, whose poem “Forties, fatal” and “sorting out our dates” have become the anthems of a generation for whom war was a major milestone.
the Main idea of the exhibition is to demonstrate the example of personal and creative biography of David Samoilov the fate of the “generation of the fortieth year” of Russian literature, to show how the Great Patriotic war became not only the defining event of his life, but also the key topic of the future of creativity. The exhibition is based on archival documents and memorial objects from the collection RGALI, the Russian state archive of cinema and private collections.
an Important part of the archive of David Samoilov is collected documents of the victims at the front, comrades, poets I. A. Lapshin, B. M. Smolensky, M. L. Bershad, and others. The autographs of their poems and pictures of the late 1930s, represented in the exhibition are often the only surviving traces of their creative development, interrupted by the war.
the Biography and creativity of young people presented in the exhibition in a tight roll with the fate of their elders – Twardowski, Simon, Lebedeva-kumacha, Isakovskogo, Dolmatovsky, Bergholz, whose poems and songs were accompanied by the Soviet people during the war.
the Exhibition will run from 25 June to 23 Oct 2020. The project was initiated by the Russian state archive of literature and art and was prepared with the support of the Fund “History of the Fatherland”.
