Society and culture: The exhibition to the 110th anniversary of the writing the novel “Hadji Murad” by Leo Tolstoy in Makhachkala

In the Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts (Makhachkala) opens the exhibition "The last novel of Leo Tolstoy "Hadji Murad". The author and the characters "(to the 110th anniversary of the writing). It is dedicated to the author and heroes of this great work.

The organizers of this exhibition project were the State Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy "Yasnaya Polyana", the P. S. Gazmatova Dagestan Museum of Fine Arts with the participation of the A. Tahoe-Godi Dagestan State United Historical and Architectural Museum, the Scientific Library DSC RAS, thr Culture Department of the Administration of Makhachkala, the Derbent District Administration.

Leo Tolstoy started writing "Hadji Murad" in August 1896, and has created it with a few interruptions for 8 years until December 1904. For the first time, in abbreviated form, the story, according to the will of the author, was published only in 1912, after the death of Leo Tolstoy in "Posthumous literary works of Leo Tolstoy" in 1912 with big censorship omissions. Completely without censorship passes the text "Hadji Murad" was printed by V. G. Chertkov in the same 1912 in the third volume of the Berlin edition of "Posthumous artistic works of Tolstoy". Separate edition it was published in 1916. The illustrations for publication were performed by E. E. Lansere.

At the exhibition visitors will see a simulation of the interior cabinet of Tolstoy; a part of books that the author had read and studied in the process of writing a novel; personal belongings of the writer, inkwell, pen, business card, the Koran; will be able to view and listen to the recording chronicles of the writer's voice. The exhibition also includes portraits of the heroes of the story, illustrations.

Immortality and the greatness of the work once are again emphasized by the contemporary artists, again and again to the theme of "Hadji Murad". Modern works of Dagestan artists and students of art schools in the country, depicting scenes story, organically fit the exposition.

Visitors of the exhibition will see many of the materials from the museum for the first time, feel colorful, polyphonic and multi-color story of Leo Tolstoy "Hadji Murad".