There will be a talk in the Ojārs Vācietis Museum about the poet’s connection with Russian culture

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According to the representatives of the Association of Memorial Museums, the second language in which Ojārs Vācietis’ work is best known is Russian. Quite naturally, the poet’s life has always been associated with Russian culture. Many of his contemporary poets, writers, friends come directly from the Russian cultural space. Ojārs Vāciets has written footnotes to his poems in Russian, cooled from the Russian language and sometimes allowed himself to write a poem in Russian. In this event, Ieva Ķīse and Aleksandrs Zapols will pay special attention to these Russian aspects in the work of Ojārs Vācietis.

Alexander Zapol (1970, poetry under the pseudonym Semyon Hanin) is a poet. He has been publishing poetry in the Latvian and Russian press since the late 1990s, has been working in the Russian poets’ text group “Orbīta” since 1999, has created an almanac “Orbīta” (since 2000), and has participated in poetry readings and performances in various countries. Translated the poetry of Latvian poets into Russian. In 2011, his anthology “Latvian Russian Poetry” was published, which summarizes poems written in Russian by various Latvian authors. He is currently studying the Russian aspects of Ojārs Vācietis’ work.

Ojārs Vāciešis Memorial Museum is located at 19 Ojāra Vācieša Street, Riga.

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