The Year of Literature in Russia-2015: Two exhibition projects, dedicated to Russian poets and writers of the Golden Age of Russian literature, in Moscow

6 February 2015
Source: The Department of Culture of the city of Moscow

The Year of Literature in Russia one of the first opens the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow. February 6, 2015 in the street Prechistenka is held the presentation o two exhibition projects, dedicated to Russian poets and writers of the Golden Age of Russian literature.

The exhibition “The singers are eloquent, the prose writers are witty…” presents portraits of Russian writers and poets from the collection of the Saint-Petersburg and Moscow Pushkin Museums.

The united exhibition project of the National and the Pushkin State Museum presents the illustrated story about the most interesting time in the history of national literature – the heyday of its “golden age” which was marked with the phenomenon in Russia with a whole galaxy of brilliant masters, of course, was Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.

Literary processes that took place in Russia in the era of Pushkin's life became the central theme of the exhibition. Powerful beginning of the Golden Age of Russian literature is presented at the exhibition of more than fifty names, including - Derzhavin, Novikov, Yazykov, Zhukovsky, Batyushkov, Davydov, Rileyev, Griboyedov, Krylov, Karamzin, Chaadayev, Delvig, Vyazemsky, Boratynsky, Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Odoyevsky, Gogol.

The exhibition is based on priceless materials from the collections of two largest Pushkin Museums in Russia. The exposition features a wide portrait gallery, personal items, lifetime editions, manuscripts and personal letters.

The exhibition “Roads of Alexander Griboyedov: from Moscow to Teheran” is dedicated to the 220th birth anniversary of A. S. Griboyedov, the author of the comedy “Woe from Wit”.

A significant part of the exhibition consists of photographs of the historian and publisher S. N. Dmitriev, who from 2009 until 2014 for four time visited Iran, as well as Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, following the paths and roads of Alexander Griboyedov. During these travels Sergei Dmitriev not only looked at the mysterious pages of biography of Griboyedov, but also made several significant discoveries. It was believed that the house of the Russian mission in Teheran where the poet died, has not survived, but Sergei Dmitriev was managed to find the ruins and make the photo essay of the memorial place.

There were 5 important cities in the life of A. S. Griboyedov – Moscow, Petersburg, Tiflis, Tabriz, Teheran.

Among the exhibits from the State Pushkin Museum collection the exhibition presents portraits of A. S. Griboyedov, including a drawing made in 1928 by Alexander Pushkin (reproduction); autograph of Griboyedov - a letter, dated 1824, to S. N. Begichev with who the author of "Woe from Wit" accompanied the passage of his play, sending it to a friend to read, and the first edition of the famous lifetime comedy of A. S. Griboyedov 1833 and its unusual repetition of the 1850s - a homemade book “Woe from Wit”, supplemented with inserts missing censored passages, as well as newspaper clippings of the XIX and XX centuries.