The Presidential Library digitized a series of postcards devoted to life and work of Alexander Pushkin

The Year of Literature, the Presidential Library continues to acquire rare materials related to the history of Russian literature. In cooperation with the Children's Museum of postcards, the Presidential Library digitized a series of postcards dedicated to Russian writers.

The sets of cards include pictures of life of one of the greatest Russian poets, Alexander Pushkin, as well as images of places associated with his work, illustrations for his famous works such as "Eugene Onegin", "Boris Godunov", "Dubrovsky" and many others.

The Presidential Library collection also features the sets of cards depicting Pushkin, his friends and contemporaries. The first issue of the publication "A. Pushkin and his friends" contains 16 reproductions of portraits of Pushkin, of Natalia Goncharova and the nearest literary environment of the poet - Alexander Griboyedov, Peter Chaadaev, Vassily Zhukovsky and others. According to the description provided for this series of cards, "The portraits published in the edition not only are part of the main collection of the lifetime iconography of Pushkin and his friends, but are by their artistic value in the first row of works of painters and draftsmen of Pushkin's era."

The second edition titled "A. Pushkin and his literary environment" features 25 portraits of Pushkin and the writers of Pushkin's time. The author of the introductory article, I. Zilberstein, writes: "The centenary of Pushkin's death stimulated the revelation of a large number of previously unknown portraits of his contemporaries. There also were found the portraits that had been considered hopelessly lost." Writers who can be called literary colleagues of the great poet constitute the most extensive group of the album. These are Peter Vyazemsky, Anton Delvig, Nikolai Gogol, Gavrila Derzhavin and many others.

The name of Pushkin is also connected to many places in Russia. A large array of cards is dedicated to Pushkin places: Mikhailovskoye, Tsarskoye Selo, Peter the Great, Trigorskoye, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Boldino. A special place in this collection belongs to a picture of the Museum-apartment at 12, Moika Embankment, where the great Russian writer spent the last years of his life.

The Presidential Library places great emphasis to the history of the Russian state. Materials related to the life and work of Alexander Pushkin, occupy a special place in its collection, which today numbers about 400,000 electronic materials.