Society and cook culture: The exhibition “The World of Literary Fairy-Tale of the Pushkin Time” in Moscow

The State Pushkin Museum (Moscow) on March 1, 2016 will open the exhibition "The World of Literary Fairy-Tales of Pushkin Time".

New large-scale exhibition of the museum project will be devoted to literary, that is the author's tale. The State Pushkin Museum has teamed up with the largest archives and museums of Russia - the Russian archive of literature and art (RGALI), the Literary Museum, the Polytechnical Museum, the A. A. Bakhrushin Theater Museum, the Museum "Abramtsevo" in order to show how little we know about this genre of literature. The project is dedicated not only to the best examples of Russian literary fairy tale of the XVIII - early XX centuries, which are familiar from childhood, but the tales of which today only the philologists remember.

Empress Catherine II considered the author of the first literary fairy tale in Russia - in 1781, she wrote for her grandchildren - Alexander, by the way, the future emperor, Constantine, and - "The Tale of Tsarevich Chlorine" has remained a pioneer in the history of this literary genre in Russia. Visitors will be able to see the royal manuscript of the first literary fairy tale and take part in the quest, dedicated to "The Tale of Tsarevich Chlorine".

At the beginning of the XIX century to the genre of fairy tales turned almost all the writers Pushkin's circle. The project will describe how to create tales of Nikolai Karamzin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Alexander Pushkin, Vladimir Dal, Vladimir Odoevsky, Pyotr Yershov, Orest Somov, Anthony Pogorelsky, Sergei Aksakov. 

At the exhibition, addressed to both children and adults, will be joined the museum exhibits, original manuscripts, rare editions, paintings and drawings by famous artists, everyday objects of past centuries, prop scenery, interactive screens.