History and culture: The exhibition "Andrey Bely: from Moscow of the Silver Age to Soviet Moscow..." opened at the Pushkin State Museum

October 30, 2020 the Pushkin State Museum (Moscow, Prechistenka, 12/2,) is hosting the exhibition "Andrey Bely: from Moscow of the Silver Age to Soviet Moscow..." which features postcards from the private collection of S. B. Tkachenko, materials from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum.

Andrey Bely (real name Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev) was born in Moscow, on the Arbat, in N. Rakhmanov's apartment building (now - No. 55) on the corner of Arbat and Denezhny lane and lived in this house for 26 years (in 2000, the writer's museum was opened here)... Then, after the death of his father, professor of the Moscow Imperial University N. V. Bugaev, he and his mother moved to another Arbat lane - Nikolsky. He spent some time abroad: in 1913-1916 - in Europe, mainly in Switzerland; in 1921-1923 - in exile, in Germany. He also traveled a lot (in Europe, in Georgia, Armenia, in the Crimea, etc.), however, from all trips, long and short, he always returned to his beloved city. The last ten years of his life, from 1923 to 1934, he lived and worked in Moscow and Moscow Region; buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.

The exposition was housed in the exhibition space of the Pushkin Museum on Prechistenka. It, like a "time machine", moves us through the life of Andre Bely - through the iconic, sometimes mystical, events of his fate, and through Moscow, in which he lived and whose life passed before his eyes and shaped him as a person and as a writer.

The exhibits include unique memorial items from the collection of the Andrei Bely Memorial Apartment on the Arbat, rare archival photographs, portraits, postcards with views of Moscow, significant publications of the era, books and autographs of Andrei Bely and his contemporaries (letters, creative manuscripts), illustrations by famous artist’s works of the writer.

Particular attention at the exhibition is paid to a private collection - a unique collection of specific postcards by the famous Moscow architect S. B. Tkachenko.

The exhibition is open until January 31, 2021.