On February 4, 2008 at 16.00 in the gallery “Labyrinth” took place the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich (1807-1884).
At the eventwas presented a DVD-ROM developed by the National Library of Belarus.The DVD contains bibliographies, full text works by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, information about the writer’s life and career, and about 100 digital copies of works by Belarusian artists.
Also during the event one volume of collected works by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich (in two volumes) published by “Mastatskaya Litaratura” publishing house, and “Pinsk Gentry” (in 5 languages) published by “Khursik” publishing house were presented.
Visitors could see a book exhibition “He was the First Who Sowed Grains…” where more than 100 materials from the NLB’s collections were displayed, and an art exhibition.
Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich’s descendants participated in the event.