Society and culture: The V. V. Mayakovski State Museum presented new exhibition in the exhibition hall “House of Chekhov” in Moscow

July 21, 2015 in the "Chekhov's House" (Moscow) took place the opening of the exhibition "We are few. We are, perhaps, three…": Fate of poetic Union" dedicated to the fate of the four complex interplay of the greatest poets of the early XX century - Vladimir Mayakovski, Pasternak, Tsvetaeva and Nikolai Aseev.

The name of the exhibition was given by the first line of a poem by Boris Pasternak of the series "I could not forget them" (1921). Under the three poets, "Donetsk, combustible and hell", Boris Pasternak was referring to himself, Vladimir Mayakovski and Nikolai Aseev. In 1923, signing his book "Themes and Variations" Marina Tsvetaeva, he quoted his poem and turned it into the Union.

Theme of the exhibition - a complex intertwining of destinies of four poets, history of alliances and ruptures, the results of the life and death of each of them. Through unifying motif - each relationship with Vladimir Mayakovski. These relationships are disclosed represented letters, manuscripts and other documents.

Visitors will be able to see a multi-dimensional picture of the Soviet poetry of the first half of the twentieth century, as shown by the fate of the most prominent poets of the time. Also the exhibition tells the story of poetic unions of the 60s associated with the memory of Vladimir Mayakovski and his generation. Another of the themes of the exhibition - illegal literary associations, to a large extent related to the poetic gatherings near the monument to Vladimir Mayakovski at Triumfalnaya Square.

The exhibition is based on a handwritten document documentary, arts and photo collections, rare books fund of the V. V. Mayakovski State Museum, the collection of the State Literary Museum, the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, the house-museum of M. I. Tsvetaeva, the International Historical and Educational, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society "Memorial", the M. I. Rudomino  All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature.

The exhibition will run until October 25, 2015.