Ivan Ilyich is dead, but you're not.
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"Ivan Ilyich's life had been most simple and commonplace--and most horrifying." --Leo Tolstoy from The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
30 March - 27 April 2008
Kick-off
Celebration "Tolstoy in Champaign-Urbana"
with honored guest, Vladimir Tolstoy, great-great-grandson
of the author Leo Tolstoy
Sunday, March 30
5:00pm
Alice Campbell Alumni Center
601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana
Free and Open to the Public
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment
for the Arts
in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts
Midwest.
The visit by Vladimir Tolstoy and Galina Alekseeva
from the Estate-Museum of Leo Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana" in Russia
is supported by the Open World Cultural Leaders Program, which aims to forge
better understanding between the U.S. and Russia by enabling emerging Russian
leaders in the arts to experience America’s cultural and community
life, and to work with their American counterparts. Support for the cultural
program is provided through partnership and funding from the National Endowment
for the Arts; the Open World Leadership Center funds the administrative
portion of the program.