CALENDAR OF EVENTS

at the Alley of Russian Poets, Washington, D.C.

to honor

Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Fet, Blok,

Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Mandestam,

Akhmatova, and Gumilev

The Alley is located at the Guy Mason Center,

 3600 Calvert St., NW, Washington, D.C.  20007

(Glover Park neighborhood, Calvert and Wisconsin, near the Naval Observatory. Parking to the left of the red brick Guy Mason Center building)

Memorial Days at the “Alley of  Russian Poets”

            Placement of Flowers

January  15 …….. Birth of Osip Mandestam (1891)

February 10 ……. 115^th anniversary of the birth of Boris Pasternak (1890) and the

         death of Alexander Pushkin (1837)

March 5 …………Death of Аnna Akhmatova (1966)

April 14 …….........Birth of Nikolai Gumilev (1886)

May 30 …………. Death of Boris Pasternak (1960)

June 6  ………….. Birth of Alexander Pushkin (1799)

June 23 …………. Birth of Аnna Akhmatova (1889)

July 27 …………...Death of Mikhail Lermontov (1841) and Fedor Tyutchev  (1873)

July 30 ………….. Saint’s Day of Мarina Tsvetaeva

August 7 …………Death of Alexander Blok (1921)

August 25 ………..Death of Nikolai Gumilev (1921)

August 31 ………..Death of Marina Tsvetaeva (1941)

September 27 ……Birth of Anastasia Tsvetaeva 

        (1894; died September 5, 1993)

Oсtober 8 ………..Birth of Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)

Oсtober 15 ………Birth of Mikhail Lermontov  (1814)

November 28 ……Birth of Alexander Blok  (1880)

December 5  ……..Birth of Fedor Tyutchev (1803) and

                                Afanasy Fet (1820; died December 3, 1892)

December 27 …….Death of Osip Mandestam (1938)

More information in Washington Museum of Russian Poetry ( Uli Zislin, Curator  ):

       Phone: 301/942-2728, e-mail: museum@zislin.com