European Foundation for Slavic Script and Culture

August 6 is the International Day of Forgiveness. The date is for the year 2023. It is celebrated on the first Sunday of August.

These August events of the first decade of the month have a traditional annual character.

International Forgiveness Day was initiated by the World Forgiveness Alliance, a non-denominational educational foundation. According to their website, "International Forgiveness Day is dedicated to awakening the healing power of forgiveness around the world." The founder is Robert W. Plath of Mill Valley, California.

Guy de Maupassant was a French writer whose work was in touch with naturalism. The man managed to make a fortune from literature. Insatiable in love, he turned most women into characters in short stories, novels and novellas. He was also a keen traveler, having toured Europe and visited remote corners of the world.

Bernard Shaw was a famous Irish dramatist, novelist, and Ireland's most famous literary figure. In 1925 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1939 he was awarded an Oscar for the screenplay for Pygmalion.

Before becoming a brilliant, unique, and wise connoisseur of human nature, Bernard Shaw had a difficult journey. He was rejected sixty times by various publishers, he was told to do other things and not to take time away from busy people, but Shaw stubbornly pursued his goal, and still became a writer, and what a one! It was he who created the theatrical genre, called the drama-discussion. In his works there is a struggle of hostile ideologies, the author analyzes the social and ethical problems.

Memorial Day of Vladimir Vysotsky is celebrated annually on July 25. This outstanding poet, actor and singer-songwriter died on July 25, 1980, but his legacy lives on in the hearts of fans around the world to this day. Forty-three years after his death, Vysotsky is still a source of inspiration for many people. His deep poetry, husky voice and unique style continue to impress listeners with their power and emotion.

Celebration on July 21 and November 4

Appearing of the Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God in the Grad of Kazan (1579)

On October 1, 1552, on the feast of the Intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, at night, John IV, the leader of the Russian soldiers preparing for a decisive assault on the Tatar Kazan, suddenly heard the chime of Moscow bells. The Tsar realized that this was a sign of God's mercy: through the prayers of the Chosen Voivode, the Lord wanted to turn the people of Kazan to Himself.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois (USA) in the family of a doctor.

In 1928 the writer's father committed suicide. Ernest, the oldest son of six children, attended several Oak Park schools and wrote stories and poems for the school newspapers.