Vladikavkaz/Agency Caucasus – Kosta Hetagurov, one of the founding fathers of the Ossetian literature, was paid tribute to in Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia’s capital, on Wednesday on his 149th birthday anniversary.
President Taymuraz Mamsurov and Mayor Vital Karayev of Vladikavkaz laid wreaths at Hetagurov’s tomb. Students, their parents as well as their teachers came from different cities and heard Kamal Hodov, poet, deliver a speech and recite examples from Hetagurov’s verse. The students afterwards recited some of the poems of Hetagurov in both Ossetian and Russian languages. Further tribute was paid to Hetagurov on the Vladikavkaz Square of Theater and outside the Theater House of Ossetia. Yermak Dzeansolov, Senior Deputy Prime Minister of North Ossetia, Stanislav Kesayev, Senior Deputy Speaker of the Parliament, Kamal Hodov and a group of young people laid wreaths here as well. The State Library for the Young, built in memory of Gaito Gazdanov, a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian extraction, hosted a program of poetry on an individual’s declaration of freedom and love to the world.
The commemoration of Kosta Hetagurov was continued with a program of literature mixed up with music in the Literary Museum of Ossetia on regarding the whole world as a shrine. The National Library also set the occasion for the start of a new week of poetry on the celebration of feelings of love between two friends.
Hetagurov’s poetry is acclaimed as the peak of poetic celebration of the sense of patriotism.
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