Exhibitions: Exposition devoted to the 175th anniversary of the last lifetime edition of “Eugene Onegin” novel in St. Petersburg

February 13, 2012 in the Green Room of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum opens an exhibition from the Museum collection, "So many familiar faces... " The literary circle of Pushkin in the pages of the novel "Eugene Onegin".

It is devoted to the 175th anniversary of the publication of the last complete lifetime edition of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin," which went on sale in bookstores of St. Petersburg January 19, 1837, just days before the death of the poet.

Celebrating the anniversary of the book with this exhibition, the museum offers visitors to first see the author of the novel in a living communion with his famous contemporaries. The gallery of the exhibition’s "familiar faces" are portraits and sculptures, books and relics of Pushkin himself, of his poetic mentors Derzhavin and Zhukovsky, Karamzin and Dmitriev, of Lyceum friends Delvig and Kuchelbecker, and of those writers whom Pushkin encountered in different periods of life.

In the center of the exhibition is the jubilee book. After the death of Pushkin, a miniature edition of "Eugene Onegin", according to the memoirs of contemporaries, was literally wiped off the shelves of bookstores, and was seen as a symbolic testament of Pushkin to his descendants.