The 5th "We Read Chekhov" All-Russian Summer Methodological School for Russian Language and Literature Teachers was held this August in the Chekhov Museum at the Melikhovo National Park. The summer school included special celebrations for this jubilee year, which marks the 155th anniversary of the birth of the great writer and is also being celebrated across the county as the 2015 Year of Literature.
The school was organized jointly by the Chekhov Museum and the Commission on Chekhov at the Council on the History of World Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Moscow Region Ministry of Culture and the Russkiy Mir Foundation also provided financial assistance for the event.
25 Russian-language and Russian-literature teachers from the Moscow Region, Tatarstan, and the Tyumen and Voronezh Regions took part in the summer school.
Over five days the participants discussed current trends in the biographical and poetical studies of the writer, and examined new methodological innovations in the literary analysis of the writer's works. The programme of the summer school consisted of lectures, seminars and master-classes covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical approaches. The sessions were conducted by leading experts in the field of Chekhov studies and professors from leading Russian universities with experience in teaching at secondary-school level.
The "We Read Chekhov" summer school is one of the Chekhov Museum's most popular and in-demand projects.
