May 19 (Sunday) at 19:00 lecture by philologist Mikhail Saprykin “How to be free in conditions of unfreedom? Experience of nonconformist literature"

In the late USSR, many poets and writers went hidden to maintain their independence. This literature lived and developed not at the meetings of the Writers' Union and the pages of official magazines, but in kitchens and in samizdat collections. And although this underground existence was not easy, nonconformist authors were able to remain truly free under totalitarianism. How did they do it? Let's find out in the lecture!