Vitebsk lovers of belles-lettres and singing got a lovely gift - November 27 at the regional library met with Belarusian poet and essayist Leonid Dranko-Maisyuk and poet, bard Edward Akulin. The same company, they came to Vitebsk and five years ago.

Dranko Maisyuk-called "Don Juan of the Belarusian literature": a fine sensibility in verse, for a particular style, for his lyrical hymn woman. Not long ago, a poet celebrated its 50th anniversary. So, as a joke Akulin, already turned in "Don Quixote." But despite the change the "image", Leonid still collects full house of fans of his work. So it was in Vitebsk: listen to him came mostly only women.

Leonid Dranko-Maisyuk presented its latest publication on time - the "Book for Mrs. El" (released two months ago in the Library of the Union of Belarusian Writers' Bookshop writer "). The collection includes fiction, plays, and, of course, wonderful poems. Writer pondered the topic is sharp enough for the Belarusian art. "In our film, literature, painting today surrogate, they exist in a chaos", - he said. And noticed that there is a lot of national history for a good story "Belarusfilm."

"If the Queen Bona came to Pinsk, it always brought the royal painter of Davyd-Borough - Navosh Ales, who had an extraordinary masculine beauty. Legend or not this legend, historical truth or a beautiful poetic fiction, but it is a scenario for the course "Belarusfilm" - the love of Queen Bona to polis'ky artist. It would be so beautiful, so interesting, this movie costume! And our soul is rested at least in our history, the beauty of our nature and psychology. And at least for an hour or so we would forget about the movies that are daily played on all TV channels. In addition, we can make movies about Bronislaw Tarashkevich, the brothers Lutskevich about Vaclav Lastovskaya about Yanka Kupala. Even on Kupala we do not have film! .. "- Crushed noted poet.

Akulin remembered Kupala too. He first introduced the literary magazine "Verasen" and then sang some of his new songs. And one old, immortal - "Yanka Kupala." Guitar, voice and Edward jokes so fascinated female audience, that the applause died down for him not long ...

Narodnyja Naviny Viciebska