Society and Culture: Exhibition "Hey There, Russia, Mother Country!", devoted to Sergei Yesein's oeuvre, opened in Voronezh

April 29, 2021, the Ivan Kramskoy Voronezh Regional Art Museum will launch the exhibition "Hey There, Russia, Mother Country!". It is devoted to the oeuvre of one of the most original Russian poets - Sergei Yesenin, whose 125th birthday was celebrated in 2020.

The exposition features almost all works of painting, graphics and sculpture by contemporary artists from the collections of the Sergei Yesenin People's Museum in Voronezh. It showcases about 100 items by 36 authors.

The exhibition spotlights the contemporary artists' reflections about the fate of the great poet. Painters, graphic artists and sculptors tried to show in their creations the admiration of Yesenin's poetry and the specific expressiveness of its inner rhythm.

The Ivan Kramskoy Voronezh Regional Art Museum’s exposition presents only part of the collections of the Sergei Yesenin People's Museum. The institution was solemnly opened on March 23, 2012, in Voronezh by the art patron and collector Vladimir Alexandrovich Bubnov. The People's Museum provided to the exposition the first collection of Yesenin's poems "Radunitsa" (1916) with the poet's autographed dedication to a literary critic and poet Zoya Bukharova, a lifetime pencil portrait of Yesenin by artist Boris Erdman (1919), a handwritten copy of Sergei Yesenin's poem "The Black Man" made by Sofya Tolsta.

The exhibition's partner is the Sergei Yesenin State Museum-Reserve in the village of Konstantinovo. The Museum-Reserve provided to the exposition the poet's personal belongings, including the death mask, top hat and walking stick, suede gloves, visiting card, etc.

The exhibition will run until May 27, 2021.