History of Saint-Petersburg: The exhibition “Breathing the same breath with Leningrad”

The exhibition "Breathing the same breath with Leningrad" takes place from May 8 to September 13, 2015 in the A. A. Blok Museum-apartment (St. Petersburg).

The exhibition tells about the life of the residents of the blockade of Blok's house - the house № 57 on the Decembrists streets.

Blok's house, like many others, has been disfigured during the war - half destroyed by a bomb in 1942. The memory of this is kept in the two pictures presented in the exposition.

The exhibition brings together family heirlooms of blockade days residents of the house № 57 - the families of Bukharin and Galaktionov.

From the first day of the blockade and the last the family of Vladimir Goergievich Galaktionov spent in the house. Common household items - cutlery - in his memory forever linked with severe childhood memories of the blockade. They enjoyed the family during the war in order to maintain their traditional way of building. Photos of the prewar and wartime tell the history of the life of grandparents of V. G. Galaktionov.

Documents, letters and photographs of the family of Arkady Ivanovich and Sofia Petrovna Bukharina, who lived in the Blok’s house from 1910s, tell about how they are not only trying to survive, but do not lose touch with his granddaughter, evacuated together with the school Sverdlovsk region.

The blockade history of the house № 57 is enriched with pictures of friends of Alexander Blok, who died during the blockade.

The exhibition also presents posters and postcards of wartime from the State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg.