The commemoration of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s birthday was celebrated in San Francisco on June 11, 2023. A theatrical performance, based on one of Pushkin’s fairy tales, was performed in the hall of Sts.Cyrill & Methody’s Russian High School at the Holy Virgin Cathedral. Following a performance by a group of children, senior students read Pushkin’s works from the stage. The Pushkin evening was organized by the Congress of Russian American’s “Youth Ambassador’s Club”.
The 6th of June, the birthday of the great Russian poet and writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin has been unofficially considered as “Pushkin’s Day” since the 19th century. Officially it was first celebrated in 1999 – on the day of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the literary genius who laid the foundations and became a model of modern Russian language. Over time, in 2011, Pushkin’s Day was combined with another holiday – the Day of the Russian Language.
