In Sochi, bloggers from Turkey, Angola, Italy, Canada, Colombia, Zambia, Monaco and other countries will try to answer Mayakovsky's question: “Listen,
if stars are lit, it means - there is someone who needs it?" During an unusual trip, they will read Russian classics, get acquainted with the local culture, sights, nature and talk about their journey on various social networks.
The idea of the Who is Russia show belongs to the Living Classics Foundation, a project to support reading for the youth audience in the country. The goal is to show both the residents of Russia and millions of people outside its borders how diverse and amazing the country is, in which the literary works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Pasternak and other world famous writers were born, the organizers said.
The trip of millionaire bloggers in Sochi and the surrounding area will take three days - from 13 to 15 August. The participants of the show will visit both the coast and the mountains at the Rosa Khutor resort. They will travel for the whole day to the highest observation point of the city - Rose Peak and Stone Pillar. The culmination of the event will be a meeting with real Russian Olympic stars: the show participants will visit the world's first ice show based on Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina directed by Ilya Averbukh and a real Black Sea regatta.
In addition to Sochi, the show participants will visit Moscow, see the Golden Ring, Murom, the sights of Tatarstan, Bashkiria, Chechnya and St. Petersburg. The bloggers' journey across Russia will end on August 22. Seven episodes of the film about this will be released in two languages at once - Russian and English in September 2021 on youtube.