In St. Petersburg, the administration of gymnasium No. 168 asked the teacher to write a letter of resignation after reading the works of Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, repressed in the USSR, in the lesson to tenth graders. This was announced on Sunday, February 6, by the teacher Serafima Saprykina herself.
She said that in December last year, an urgent meeting was held at the school, at which the director of the educational institution put forward a demand for her to write a letter of resignation because of the topic of the lesson.
“With a frighteningly distorted face of anger, she ordered me to quit, as I read poems to tenth graders by “enemies of the people” and “accomplices of the fascists” Alexander Ivanovich Vvedensky and Daniil Ivanovich Kharms,” Saprykina wrote on Facebook.
The teacher added that in case of refusal to write a statement, she was promised dismissal under the article “Loss of confidence”.
To the objection that the poets were once rehabilitated, the teacher, according to her, was answered that “at that time everyone was rehabilitated.” Gumilyov and Mandelstam were also classified as enemies of the people in this school, Saprykina said.
“These people, according to the director, were deservedly captured by the NKVD and tortured for their “crimes”, and their poems can only be discussed “in your bohemian kitchens,” she quoted the director of the institution as saying.
The topic of the lesson was previously discussed with the head teacher of the gymnasium, who was also present at the meeting, but did not report this, the teacher clarified.
The poet Daniil Kharms was arrested for the second time in 1941, he was accused of spreading “slanderous and defeatist sentiments” in his entourage and was placed in the Kresty prison, where he died a year later. Kharms was rehabilitated in 1960.
Alexander Vvedensky was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary agitation, while being transferred to a train to Kazan in 1941, he died of pleurisy, he was rehabilitated in 1964.
Source: IZ
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