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Article: Juras T. Ryfa, ed. Collected Essays in Honor of the Bicentennial of Alexander Pushkin's Birth. (book review)
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- June 22, 2002
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Studies in Slavic Languages and Literature, vol. 4. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 276 pp.
THE YEAR 1999 marked the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), the father of Russian literature and Russia's most beloved cultural and spiritual icon. To celebrate the occasion, numerous galas, festivals, and conferences were held in Russia and in the West. A highlight of the festivities in the United States was a project initiated by James W. Symington, chairman of the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation and four-term member of the House of Representatives, who commissioned the sculptor ...