Аннотация: MMMDLXXVII. Diamonds of Russial Culture ("Russial Dynasties" and Literary Museums). A culturological essay. - December 2, 2024.
Diamonds of Russial Culture ("Russial Dynasties" and Literary Museums). A culturological essay.
A few hours ago, a story was told (by radio) about some Russial literary museums. It turns out that many literary museums are quite prosperous. It was interesting to learn that there is a museum of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the city of Kislovodsk.
If my memory serves me right, at one time there were many publications about the monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in the city of Kislovodsk. For example, not all local residents liked the fingers on the monument.
It turns out that there is the museum in Kislovodsk. Indeed, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's roots are connected with Kislovodsk. He left those territories quite early (at the age of six - in 1924). Maybe some items related to the writer were found? Where (in what places)? Another periods of his life were carring in other areas and settlements.
But, for example, Rostov-on-Don (where Solzhenitsyn grew up and where he lived for many years) is not a resort town, while Kislovodsk is.
Thus, there is a certain logic in creating a Solzhenitsyn museum in Kislovodsk.
There is no museum in Rostov-on-Don (where Solzhenitsyn lived for about 15 years, from 1924 to 1941): there no Solzhenitsyn Museum? Or there no Museum of Solzhenitsyn, Reshetovskaya, Vitkevich?
In the 1930s (of 20-th century), Rostov-on-Don retained the qualities of a Polish university town (during the First World War, Warsaw University was evacuated to Rostov-on-Don).
Solzhenitsyn not only "guessed" with the university, but also with his friends: Natalya Reshetovskaya and Nikolai Vitkevich. From a provincial guy, who understood the issues of production and sale of agricultural products, Solzhenitsyn became a person with a European culture.
The Museum of Reshetovskaya and Vitkevich could have exhibits: Vitkevich's camp quilted jacket, models of camp parcels sent from Rostov-on-Don to the imprisoned Solzhenitsyn, photographs concerning the Reshetovskaya's failed family life (at the end of her life she was left without a husband and children)...
Of course, Natalya Reshetovskaya (at the beginning of her life path) could have attended a literary circle and become someone like Paustovsky, and Nikolai Vitkevich could have become either a successful university teacher or someone like Vernadsky. But... It was necessary to devote a time to the future conqueror of the Spaces of Asian Literature.
Cultural people who absorbed (to one degree or another the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) - they treated with respect (to) people who mastered knowledge, (to) the followers of the great Lomonosov.
There is no need to attach too much importance to the ancient university in Wilno or to other ancient universities incorporated by the Russian Empire. Mikhail Lomonosov - it is he who is important - he came (in bast shoes?) to the capital from the North edges with a trade convoy to study.
It turn out, there is also a museum of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Moscow.
In this regard, I recall a publication from 2018: "A fraudster who deceived the director of the memorial museum-apartment of Alexander Solzhenitsyn under the pretext of buying diamond mines was detained by the capital's law enforcement officers."
September 18, 2018:
"It has been established that the man convinced the director of the A. Solzhenitsyn apartment museum to profitably invest money in diamond mines, and on April 23, 2018, in the salon of his car on Zubovsky Boulevard, he received 12 million rubles from the victim," the source reported...
Later, the press service of the House of Russia Abroad named after A. Solzhenitsyn denied this information.
"The information that money was stolen from the director of the A. Solzhenitsyn Apartment-Museum is not true. The A. Solzhenitsyn Apartment-Museum is a structural subdivision of the A. Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad. No funds were stolen from the head of the A. Solzhenitsyn Apartment-Museum department, and he did not contact the police," the press service reported."
Overview of the exposition of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Apartment-Museum (Moscow, Tverskaya St., 12, building 8, entrance 14, apt. 173):
"... "Kitchen"
... The furnishings of the Solzhenitsyn kitchen are restored using typological objects (furniture, dishes, kitchen utensils), a unique original - a radio receiver donated by M.L. Rostropovich. On the walls are photographs of Solzhenitsyn's friends who visited this kitchen (E.V. and E.B. Pasternaks, G.P. Vishnevskaya and M.L. Rostropovich, A.D. Sakharov, L.K. and E.Ts. Chukovskies, and others. (...)
The "Nobeliana" Hall
The exhibition in the largest room in the apartment is dedicated to Solzhenitsyn's creative path, from the time of the secret writing during his years of imprisonment to receiving the regalia of a Nobel Prize laureate (1948-1974). The first display case displays Solzhenitsyn's authentic camp quilted jacket with the insignia of the Ekibastuz special camp and a Nobel tailcoat. The exhibition also includes original items: a camp notebook and a rosary, which helped Solzhenitsyn to compose orally in the camp (early 1950s), issues of the magazine "Novy Mir" with Solzhenitsyn's first publications in the USSR (1962-1966), world publications up to 1970, laureate regalia - Nobel medal and diploma. (...)"
At the same time, I learned from a radio program about literary museums, that the opening of the Vladimir Mayakovsky museum is being postponed - there are difficulties.
So not all museums are moving forward dynamically.
And a little earlier I heard the beginning of another radio program dedicated to "Russial dynasties." It was about Marshal Kirill Meretskov and his descendants.
Unfortunately, I was in a hurry and couldn't listen to this radio program.
We can hope that in the near future we will hear interesting radio programs dedicated to the "dynasties" of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Natalya Reshetovskaya, Nikolai Vitkevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Tvardovsky.
December 2, 2024 01:53
Translation from Russian into English: December 4, 2024 00:05
Владимир Владимирович Залесский " Алмазы российской культуры ("российские династии" и литературные музеи). Культурологический очерк ".
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