Museums of Russia: Vladimir Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature launched the exhibition devoted to the centenary of the museum

The Vladimir Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature (Moscow, Lyuboschinskys' Apartment House) launched an exhibition marking its centenary. This institution is one of the most prominent literary museums in the world.

The unique museum collections have more than half a million relics representing several centuries of the history of Russian literature, book and reading culture. The creation and new acquisitions are the key activities that allow describing and understanding the logic of the development of the leading literary museum of Russia. This idea formed the concept of the anniversary exhibition of the Vladimir Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature.

In the 1920s, the museum started to form the very first personal collections of Anton Chekhov and Fyodor Dostoevsky. In the early 1930s, Vladimir Bonch-Bruevich, a prominent statesman and scientist, contributed to the museum's concept. The exhibition also reflects the dramatic events of the museum's history in the late 1930s - 1940s. The most extensive exhibition sections are devoted to the last periods of the museum's life: the time of the creation of a network of memorial house-museums (the 1960s – 1990s) and the period of the return to the comprehensive concept of the country's leading literary museum, developed by Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (2000–2010).

The exposition allows tracing the museum's formation through the history of the development of its collections. Today the hallmarks of the Vladimir Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature are the collections of the classics of Russian literature: A. P. Chekhov, F. M. Dostoevsky, V. V. Mayakovsky, A. I. Herzen, M. Yu. Lermontov, N. V. Gogol, V. Ya. Bryusov, A. N. Tolstoy and others. They all, even family collections, have been developing over the decades, improving both the collections of the Vladimir Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature and its prestige. The principle of displaying materials according to the chronology of their entering makes it possible to show the process of obtaining the current museum identity. Particular attention is paid to contributors, including many famous writers, artists, collectors, which means that the museum always attracts people associated with Russian culture.

The exhibition introduces the most striking objects from the most significant and exciting museum collections. The exhibition visitors will see handwritten papers of N. V. Gogol, I. S. Turgenev, A. N. Ostrovsky, A. A. Blok, S. A. Yesenin; lifetime editions of the classics of Russian literature; the legendary ring of D. V. Venevitinov, rings of V. V. Mayakovsky and L. Yu. Brik, bracelets of M. I. Tsvetaeva and other personal belongings of famous writers; drawings by K. N. Batyushkov and M. Yu. Lermontov, one of the first versions of the Black Square by K. S. Malevich, works by N. I. Altman, B. M. Kustodiev, S. Yu. Sudeikin, A. G. Tyshler.

The last hall shows new acquisitions to the museum collections exhibited for the first time.

The exhibition will run until March 27, 2022.