Internet and Museums: Website of the Pushkin Museum-Reserve launched "Tales of the Past" exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the"Ruslan and Lyudmila" poem

The website of the Pushkin Museum-Reserve launched "Tales of the Past" exhibition. This is a joint project of the Pushkin Museum-Reserve and the National Pushkin Museum (Saint-Petersburg) marking the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the "Ruslan and Lyudmila" poem.

At the end of May, the National Pushkin Museum was going to bring an exhibition dedicated to this event to the "Mikhailovskoye" Museum-Reserve. After all, the Pushkin created the poem in Saint-Petersburg and wrote a prologue during exile in Mikhailovskoye. Unfortunately, these plans were postponed, but the museums decided to present the "Tales of the Past" virtual exhibition. It features illustrations and drawings of costumes and decorations by remarkable Russian artists of the late XIX - early XX centuries from the National Pushkin Museum collection.

The Pushkin Museum-Reserve supports colleagues and joins this project. Its museum collection contains interesting and diverse material devoted to the "Ruslan and Lyudmila" poem. The exhibition showcases bookplates by A. S. Averkieva and N. I. Kofanova, an illustration by N. N. Ge, made in the second half of the XIX century, applied art items, souvenirs and books, including the second edition of the poem, printed in 1828.