The celebration Mikhail Prishvin's anniversary is included in the 2023 work plan of the Russian Geographical Society.
Mikhail Prishvin was a famous writer and a recipient of the silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society. He received it for his first significant fiction book “In the land of fearless birds”. On the day his 150th anniversary, a special envelope cancellation ceremony took place in the Murmansk Regional Scientific Library.
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The exhibition ”To comprehend the nature and soul of man: the 150th anniversary of Mikhail Prishvin“ presented Prishvin's works for children and adults, as well as studies of the writer's life and work. Tatiana Ivanova, the chief librarian of the Reader Service Department, is in charge of the exhibition.
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The writer Mikhail Prishvin was born on February 4, 1873. He published his first story at the age of 33, and before that he was engaged in agronomy and journalism.
Prishvin's life was inextricably linked with travel. In 1906, he spent several months in the Vygovsky region. This is there he wrote his first significant fiction book “In the land of fearless birds”. He later received a silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society for it.
In 1907-1908, Prishvin visited Arkhangelsk, Karelia, Norway and the Kerzhensky forests. He crossed the Kola Peninsula and took a trip across the Arctic Ocean, returned to Murmansk and sailed to Norway. Having rounded the Scandinavian Peninsula, Prishvin returned to St. Petersburg.
During his journey through the Russian North, Prishvin studied the life and speech of and locals,wrote down their tales. Then he visited the Crimea, the Zairtysh steppe, the Volga region and the Uralmash plant. In the early 1930s, Prishvin traveled to the Far East. In 1935, Prishvin again visited the Russian North, this time with his son Peter.