Society and culture: The exhibition "Russian writers of the Silver Age" in Moscow

August 17, 2016 in the reading room of Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library (Moscow) opens the exhibition "Russian writers of the Silver Age: to the 130th anniversary of the birth of Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich and the 150th anniversary of Dmitry Merezhkovsky". These names are known to every reader in our country, therefore the exhibition will be interesting to a wide range of visitors.

Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky - poet, writer, playwright, translator, one of the pillars of Russian symbolism, literary critic, essayist, philosopher.

Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich - poet, historian, diarist, Pushkin scholar, translator and literary critic.

It is remarkable that two such major figures of the Silver Age had common friends and acquaintances (the exhibition presents letters by Khodasevich and Merezhkovsky to Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov, Mikhail Osipovich Gershenzon), but they chatted close very briefly, and only in exile. Especially interesting will be the ones to trace the threads that bound them - and this can be done through the work of members of the Department of Manuscripts, prepared the exhibition.

The exhibition presents numerous autographs of poems by Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich, his translations of Armenian poetry, "Memoirs of an Italian nobleman" by Stendhal, S. Krasinski’s drama "Iridion". This rarity - autographs of works of Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky "Tsarevich Alexei", "December 14", "Peter and Alex", his poems "Trump", "Prayer for the wings".

Photographs, inscriptions on the books, correspondence and notebooks do the exposition very lively and capture the spirit of the Silver Age of Russian poetry.