Paśny Buriat looks to the East – meeting with Piotr Brysacz - Muzeum Pamięci Sybiru

29 March 2024

Paśny Buriat looks to the East – meeting with Piotr Brysacz

Tickets for the next meeting at the Sybir Memorial Museum are already waiting for you at the museum’s ticket office (and on the website). On Thursday, April 18, our guest will be Piotr Brysacz, founder of the Paśny Buriat publishing house.

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Piotr Brysacz is a graduate of Polish studies and a journalist. In 2018, he founded the Paśny Buriat Publishing House together with his wife, Maja Witecka-Brysacz – a graphic artist, illustrator and book designer.

Paśny Buriat’s editorial activity is closely related to the Looking at the East Literary Festival, which is organized in the summer in Buda Ruska, in the home of Agnieszka and Piotr Malczewski – where the idea of establishing the publishing house was born. (The traveler and photographer Piotr Malczewski is one of the authors publishing with the Paśny Buriat; he was also a guest at the Sybir Memorial Museum – here you can read about the meeting, where he talked about his travels to Baikal lake).

Paśny Buriat Publishing House – as its founders declare – publishes books “related to the broadly understood East, which begins east of the Vistula” and north-eastern Poland. These are travel reports, essays, novels, biographies and interviews, as well as publications about the relationship between man and nature. The bestsellers include books about the history, culture and nature of Podlasie and the Suwalki region.

The pretext for the meeting at the Sybir Memorial Museum on April 18th at 6 p.m. will be the next edition of the book “Looking at the East. Space, Man, Mysticism” (copies of which will be available for purchase).

This will be the third edition of the collection of conversations that Piotr Brysacz conducted, among others, with: Andrzej Stasiuk, Mariusz Wilk, Magdalena Skopek, Michał Książek and Wojciech Górecki. Brysacz’s interlocutors, travelers, writers and researchers, talk about their journeys and relationships with the broadly understood East:

“There are many Yamals. What attracts me the most is the one under the reindeer skin, in knee-deep mud, with the smell of smoke, chum, tundra.”

Magdalena Skopek, who spent two months with the wandering Nenets people

“Every time I go to the East, I am surprised. And I cherish it very much, because I need to have a sharp vision.”

reporter Jacek Hugo-Bader

“I don’t really believe in one common vision of the world, and from this point of view, there are as many Russias as there are views on it.”

journalist and traveler Jędrzej Morawiecki

New edition of the book “Looking at the East. “Space, Man, Mysticism” will receive a new graphic design:

At the meeting at the Siberia Memorial Museum, Piotr Brysacz will talk not only about getting to know the East, but also about cooperation with travelers and publishing books.

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