The Conference was held November 24. Dr. Yuri Orlitsky, a leading expert at the Mandelshtam Studies Laboratory at the Institute of Philology and History, said that the poetry of Sapgir had exerted an enormous influence on Russian poetry, which in turn has necessitated Russian poetry studies in general and Sapgir’s works, in particular.
The list of participants included experts from MSU, MPGU, HSE, SAUH, Dahl State Museum, Buryat University of Culture, and other institutions.
The topics of the seminar comprised choir recitation of Sapgir’s poetry, its visualization, the irony of his works, his psalms regarded as part of Russian psalmodic tradition, its influence on the modern poetry, the issue of narrator in his poetry, and others.
Other presentations dealt with the poet’s contemporaries: Slutsky, Kholin, Chukhontsev, Sedakova and others.
A lot of interest was attracted by Dr. Katsis’ presentation on Slutsky’s cycle of poems about the anti-Pasternak campaign.
