Holidays of Russia - Pushkin Day of Russia

This day - June 6 - is not just a significant date for Russian culture. This is a holiday on a global scale. On the birthday of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, a double holiday is celebrated - Pushkin Day and Russian Language Day. And the point is not even that this event is formalized by both the Decree of the President of Russia and the UN resolution. All connoisseurs and admirers of the poet’s work associate this day with the contribution that the great Russian poet made to the development of his native Russian language. This holiday was celebrated back in the days of the Soviet Union, when thousands and thousands of his fans gathered together to read his unforgettable lines for hours, listening again and again to their magical and bewitching sound. Pushkin became a creator of art on a new level, raising the importance of his native language to unprecedented heights. By loving the great poet, we thereby express a feeling of love and pride in our Motherland. Having given a new meaning to simple words, the poet forever remained in the hearts of millions and millions of people. Throughout our lives, Pushkin’s creativity follows us, and we follow him. We hear his fairy tales as children, and we quote many lines from his works without noticing it ourselves. It is difficult now to imagine how the Russian language would have developed if this name had not appeared in the history of not only Russian, but also world culture. But, apparently, it couldn’t have been any other way. Russian Language Day has the status of not only a national holiday. The UN declared this day a holiday on a global scale, emphasizing the diversity of different linguistic cultures. On Pushkin Day, many different events take place throughout the country. These are various exhibitions, concerts, creative evenings, competitions, lectures and simply reading his poems. It is worth noting that it was on June 6, 1880 that a monument to the great Russian poet was unveiled in Moscow.