Source: http://www.indiaabroaddaily.com/2001/04/08/08ramayan.html
Courtesy: HPI
MOSCOW, RUSSIA,
April 9, 2001: Russia is perhaps the only European country where
the Valmiki Ramayana, the story of Lord Rama written by the Hindu
sage Valmiki, has sold tens of thousands of copies in Russian. More
than a thousand people offered prayers and tributes to the Hindu
God Ram in the first ever Ramnavami celebrations, at which Russian
artists and writers who took Ram's story to the people were felicitated.
Cultural Center (JNCC) at Moscow organized a function to honor those
who are associated with translating and staging the Ramayana as
a play in Russia. While eminent Indologist Alexander Baranikov first
translated the Ramayana into Russian in 1948, Natalia Guseva, another
prominent scholar on India, had written the script for a play based
on the Indian epic that was staged in Moscow Children's Theatre
in the Soviet Union for the first time in 1957. The Ramayana, popularly
perceived as a tale of triumph of good over evil, is used extensively
for inculcating noble values in Russian children, and has been staged
in scores of cities many times over during the past five decades.
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