Deputy Vishnevsky: People who consider Kharms and Vvedensky enemies of the people should not work in the education system

People who allow themselves to call the poets Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms accomplices of the Nazis and enemies of the people should not work in the education system. Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, announced this in a conversation with a Rosbalt correspondent.

“Outrageous situation. I spoke with Serafima Saprykina, who had to quit after reading the poems of Vvedensky and Kharms at school, she is an honest, sincere person. I heard similar comments about this headmistress from other people – they all fit into this concept. But one must understand that Vvedensky and Kharms are not just major poets and writers, they are victims of political repression and were officially rehabilitated, ”the deputy noted.

Vishnevsky sent an appeal to the city education committee with a request to look into the situation. The correspondent of Rosbalt failed to get through to the press secretary of the Kombra. Ignore requests from the press and employees of gymnasium No. 168, in which the incident occurred – no one picks up the phones listed on the school’s website, and employees also do not answer on social networks.

Recall that in St. Petersburg, the teacher of gymnasium No. 168, Serafima Saprykina, had to quit after reading poems by Alexander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, repressed in the USSR, to tenth graders. Director Svetlana Lebedeva said that these were poems by “enemies of the people” and “accomplices of the fascists”, and their authors were deservedly captured by the NKVD for their “crimes”. The teacher was recommended to read poetry “in their bohemian intellectual kitchens.” Saprykina reported the incident on social networks a month later.