Presentation of the almanac "Deribasovskaya - Rishelievskaya", No. 81

World Odessa Club       Odessa Literary Museum       JSC "PLASKE"       present:              A new issue of the Deribasovskaya - Rishelievskaya almanac was published              May 15 at 15:00 in the World Club of Odessa will be held ONLINE PRESENTATION                     Alexander Pushkin: “Long live the muses, long live the mind!”              The June issue of the Deribasovskaya - Rishelievskaya almanac is traditionally dedicated to the Poet’s birthday.       The current, 81st, was created by the editors and authors in quarantine according to the remote access method and is available on the website of the World Odessa Club for reading and discussion. We started preparing the next city birthday.              We admit that the cause of this - traditional - appeal to the readers of the next issue was made in the first days after the presentation of the 80th anniversary. And he began like this: "You are holding in your hands the just released ...".              But now you, like us, move the mouse of your computer or the cursor of a smartphone and turn over the pages without feeling the resistance of the tight body of the almanac and not smelling the printing ink. And he is a special bonus to real scribes ...              The eighty-first issue - for the first time in 20 years - did not lie on the bookshelves, but soared into the Internet cloud and took a place in the host of publications, which had already passed from the "print" kind to the "virtual" subspecies for several years. And I must say that our neighbors became close relatives of Odessa, and metropolitan attitudes ...On the one hand, we admit that it’s not very comfortable out of habit: we understand that in June we will not get high at the presentation in the Golden Hall of our native Literary Museum, that the authors will not reach the World Club of Odessa for their copies, and we will lose our proud pleasure - to sign autographs copies donated to young television journalists interviewing members of the editorial board.              But our main tradition has been preserved. This issue, like the previous ones, is open on the website of the World Odessa Club for the city and the world - for our countrymen, wherever they (we) live. In it, as in the previous ones, are the monologues of Mikhail Zhvanetsky, his photo with a cat; Yuri Mikhailik’s poems about quarantine - on our planet they (for various reasons) were earlier, are and will be, unfortunately, always ...              We hope to talk about how we lived and got sick this spring, and recovered, and left in the next issues. I would like to have Odessa in September, but maybe for the New Year. And now in June, on the birthday of Alexander Pushkin, this almanac comes out - the free son of the air, which we and our authors, our friends and partners, PLASKE JSC and the Odessa World Club, together created in the regime ... no, not self-isolation, but remote , but communication, albeit contactless, but in an arrangement and almost feng shui.The issue is a continuation of the chapters of the Odessa Pushkin guidebook compiled by Oleg Gubar: the chapter from "Eugene Onegin" became for our city a symbolic Certificate of Immortality, and poems and lyric poems created in the young city in the collection of his works, and we quoted them more than once .       But today, when these lines are written, and tomorrow, when you read them on the screens of your gadgets, we will repeat after the Poet from his “Bacchic Song”, written in 1819 by a very young man, just from the Lyceum:              Raise the glasses. Let's move them together!       Long live the muses, long live the mind!       You, holy sun, burn!       How does this lamp turn pale       Before a clear sunrise dawn.