[BCMA] Press Release

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

*OTTAWA SCHOLAR TO SPEAK AT DOUKHOBOR DISCOVERY CENTRE
*Doukhobor scholar, author, anthropologist and photographer Koozma J.
Tarasoff will be a featured speaker at this year's opening of the 39th
season of the Doukhobor Discovery Centre in Castlegar, British Columbia on
Sunday afternoon April 25, 2010. He will outline the world legacy of the
great world Russian writer and pacifist Count Lev N. Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
on the life of the Doukhobors. The museum opening is dedicated to the
100-year anniversary of the death of this world figure.

Tarasoff, who resides in Ottawa, Ontario will also speak at high schools in
Creston, Salmo, Nelson, Trail, Rossland, Castlegar, South Slocan, and Grand
Forks between April 19th and May 5th, 2010.His mission is to share the
beauty and wisdom of Tolstoy's quest for a just and moral life and the
wisdom of the Doukhobor heritage. The program includes a recent film about
Doukhobors, a lecture about Tolstoy, questions, and a donation of his latest
book, Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers' Strategies for Living. He will
also be available to speak with media and organizations. Contact the
Doukhobor Discovery Centre in Castlegar at 250-365-5327 for details.

Tolstoy is remembered not only for his masterpieces War and Peace and Anna
Karenina, but also for his very modern and innovative philosophical and
moral thoughts. He was in touch with world thinkers of the time and
influenced Mahatma Gandhi and later Martin Luther King Jr. One of the key
achievements of his life was saving the Doukhobors from annihilation and
organizing and financially helping the migration of 7,500 of them to Canada
in 1899.

-- 
Larry A. Ewashen, B.A., s.c., M.A. Curator
Doukhobor Discovery Centre
112 Heritage Way
Castlegar BC V1N 4M5
www.Doukhobor-Museum.org
250-365-5327
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