A virtual tour of Yulian Semyonov’s House Museum available on the Presidential Library’s portal

Marking Yulian Semyonov’s birthday on October 8 (1931–1993) the Presidential Library provides access to a virtual tour of the House Museum of the writer of novels about the scout Isaev - Stierlitz, a screenwriter of popular Soviet films, journalist and public figure.

Yulian Semyonov’s House Museum, located in the village of Oliva (Upper Mukhalatka) in Crimea, was opened in 2000. The writer lived and worked there until 1989. He created such works as “Ordered to Survive”, “Expansion”, “Despair”, “Versions”, “Reporter” and many others, and also carried out organizational work to create the first non-state newspaper in the USSR “Top Secret” (1989).

The House Museum keeps the atmosphere of the study and library of Yulian Semyonov and reflects his life and work. The exposition includes manuscripts, documents, photographs, the writer’s correspondence with Soviet and foreign colleagues (Graham Green, Georges Simenon, Ernest Hemingway), filmmakers (Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vyacheslav Tikhonov), cultural figures of the Russian foreign countries (Serge Lifal, Marc Chagall, Fedor Chaliapin). A visitor to the virtual museum will see the original work of artists Ilya Glazunov and Mikhail Shemyakin, will be able to study documents related to the search for and return of art treasures stolen by German troops during the Great Patriotic War, as well as materials relating to the filming of the feature films Seventeen Moments of Spring, TASS is Authorized to Declare... , Confrontation, Petrovka, 38.

The creation of virtual tours is a developing area of ​​the Presidential Library’s activities, thanks to which the electronic storage fund, along with paper, photo, audio and video materials, is growing with digitized exhibits and items from museum collections.