On October 16, the 10th All-Russian Polish Dictation was held at RSUH. The event was held jointly with the Federal Polish National-Cultural Autonomy "Congress of Poles in Russia" with the support of the Council for Interethnic Relations under the President of the Russian Federation, as well as the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.
Dr. Vera Zabotkina, Acting Vice-Rector for International Cooperation of RSUH, delivered a welcoming speech to the participants. The opening was also attended by Ms. Galina Romanova, Chairperson of the “Congress of Poles in Russia”, Mr. Slavomir Luchak, Head of the Consular Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland, and Professor Sergei Skorvid, Chair of the Department of Slavic Studies and Central European Studies at RSUH, where the Polish language has been successfully taught since the foundation of the University.
About 100 online participants of different ages, lovers of the Polish language and culture from Bryansk, Kursk, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Vladimir, Chelyabinsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kaliningrad, Stavropol, Samara, Pyatigorsk Krasnodar, Cheboksary, Krasnoyarsk and other cities of Russia joined the event. Unfortunately, due to the epidemic, the number of participants could not exceed 50 people. Before the pandemic, more than 200 people wrote the dictation each year.
This year it was dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famous Polish prose writer Cyprian Kamil Norwid. Norwid's works have been repeatedly translated into Russian, but the latest edition of the collection of poems dates back to as early as 2002. After almost 20 years, it has become necessary to publish a new volume, which would include the works not having been translated before, said Dr. Sergei Skorvid. Norwid is known to those not-so-young Russians who love Polish cinema, from a fragment from Ashes and Diamonds by Andrzej Wajda.
After the end of the Dictation, young members of the Moscow National Cultural Autonomy of Poles gave a modern interpretation of Norwid's poetry.
