pushkin's birthday abroad--why the eighth?

[serge rogosin]

Does anyone know why Pushkin's birthday was celebrated
abroad as the "Day of Russian Culture" on the eighth
of June, rather than the sixth?  Was this limited to
the first celebration of the DOC in 1925?  At the
time, was Pushkin's birthday considered to be the
eighth, either in the Soviet Union or abroad?

Any information or advice would be greatly
appreciated.

Serge Rogosin
srogosin at aol.com

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