On the air Anna Karenina

On October 3, in the Turgenev library-reader, as well as at venues in Tula, Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Paris, Los Angeles and in other cities, the Karenina readership will be held. Living edition. " The reader marathon in the Turgenev library-reader will be held from 18:00 to 22:00 and October 4 from 11:00 to 14:00. Online broadcast will begin on October 3 at 12:00 Moscow time and will last until 23:00 on October 4.

Leo Tolstoy’s novel will be read by more than 700 people - theater and cinema actors, journalists, musicians, descendants of the writer, artists, scientists, video bloggers and winners of the selection of readers.

It is already known that Karenina will read Cosmonaut George Grechko, actress Olga Dykhovichny, Ingeborg Dapkunayt, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Lyubov Tolkalina, Lyudmila Zaitseva, actor Igor Petrenko, directors Yegor Konchalovsky, Valery Todorovsky and Alexei Popogrebsky, designer Igor Chapurin, journalists Mikhail Kozyrev, Nikolai. Uskov and Yurata Garauskite, skater Adelina Sotnikova, poet Vera Polozkova, playwright Ivan Zarypaev. The actor and theater director Oleg Tabakov will begin the marathon, reading the whole novel, according to the plans of the organizers, will take more than 30 hours. The live broadcast will go on the project page in Google+ through YouTube. It will also be possible to look at the readers at Polit.ru.

Most of the sites in Russia and the world during the event will be open to everyone. The organizers are waiting for literature lovers in the Russian State Library, the Turgenev Library-Chistaln, the Moscow Bookstore and the metropolitan design factory of Flacon, the Peterhof GMZ and the Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova in the Fountain House in St. Petersburg, the Arseniev Museum in Vladivostok. A full list of open sites in Russia, as well as the schedule of their work, can be found on the Internet.

“Karenina. Living edition ”-a joint project of the Museum of the Estate of Leo Tolstoy“ Yasnaya Polyana ”and Google Russia.

The Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov also reported his participation in the project. He will read the excerpt on Friday, October 3. Peskov told reporters that he had read Anna Karenina at school, but he did not like the book extremely. “Because I did not understand anything in it,” Peskov admitted.

“This is probably our common problem - the most serious works for us to read at a young age. We perceive this as torture, and, most importantly, we do not understand what a person wrote, what a genius wrote, ”Peskov believes. He added that in adulthood, a person often does not have time to re -read many literary works.

It is also known that Anna Karenina will also read Peskov’s colleague, spokesman Dmitry Medvedev Natalya Timakova.

Not only famous people will read the works of Tolstoy. The organizers staged a competition among simple lovers of classical literature - anyone could download a record on YouTube, on which he read one of the four passages selected by the descendants of the writer.

“Photos have been preserved in which the Tolstoy family - Lev Nikolaevich himself, his children and wife - sits in the living room and one of them reads the book aloud. In the XXI century, I also want to arrange such home readings, to empathize with the heroes and enjoy the beautiful text. Only now it doesn’t matter that the listener or the one who sees your reading can be thousands of kilometers, ”the great -great -granddaughter of the writer Fekla Tolstaya, head of the development department of the State Museum of Lev Tolstoy, told Rossiy Gazeta.

Google regularly participates in the organization of educational and educational actions. So, in 2010, the Spanish unit of the corporation, together with the Spanish Royal Academy and the creative almanac Artifex.ru - searched for art and conducted the “Don Quixote” of Miguel de Cervantes. Then the participants recorded more than 2000 fragments, which were then mounted in a single video. Now, thanks to the development of technology, it has become possible to hold an online event with many sites in different cities of Russia and the world.