On Saturday, December 10, a literary and educational meeting organized by the Youth Department of the Patriarchal Parishes in the USA and the “Russian Culture in New York” society was held in the parish hall of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York.
Linguist and translator Marina Bernsgord gave a lecture titled “Korolenko in New York: Out of the Underground.” The audience learned about the work of the outstanding Russian writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko during his stay in the United States, and in particular how his impressions of American life were reflected in his works. Slides of photographs showing American life at the end of the 19th century, as V.G. Korolenko might have seen it, were used as illustrations.
During the discussion after the lecture, the chairman of the Youth Department, Priest Julian Ryabtsev, noted that the history of many present-day Orthodox parishes in the USA began with communities of immigrants who came from the western provinces of the Russian Empire, of whom the novella “Without a Language” tells.
Also during the event, the cathedral guests were presented with a mock-up of the 2023 wall calendar, designed and laid out by members of the Youth Department.
