The artist was looking for the image of the romantic hero of Lermontov’s poetry. He pushed off the lines in the poem “Mtsyri”: “I was glad to fight the storm.” A completely unexpected image emerges from under the artist’s hands — a restless, breaking out of chaos, a conquering One — not a bird, not a fish, with a human face, pierced through with rays and emitting light itself — being the Star. For the third year in a row, the “Mtsyri” poetry contest has been held. Only the poets of “Lermontov’s age” participate in the competition program of the festival – no older than twenty-seven years old. Gregory Pototsky heads the board of connoisseurs, as the creator of the “Grand Prix” symbol of the festival – the sculpture of the floating Mtsyri, which became a kind of poetic “Oscar”.
