Museum of Russian Literature of the Silver Age
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Wedsday, Friday from 14:00 until 19:00
Closed: Sunday, Monday
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[edit] Description
Museum of Russian Literature of the Silver Age is a State Literature Museum. Museum of Russian Literature of the Silver Age is situated in the house-museum of Valery Bryusov, one more prominent Russian poet of the Silver Age, writer, publicist and philologist, who lived here in 1910 – 1924. Here you can see his private study, but most part of the exposition is devoted to different writers and poets of that fruitful epoch of Russian literature.
[edit] Silver Age
1920-1930s was the time of a great heyday of Russian poetry; therefore literary critics usually call it "Silver Age" (the "Gold Age", the first third of 19th century, is connected with the name of Alexander Pushkin). Among the greatest poets of the Silver Age are Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva and many other brilliant poets; unfortunately, they all are rather poorly known beyond the borders of Russia.
[edit] Museum's Exposition
There are many signed editions published in authors’ lifetime, as well as some remarkable portraits of men of letters of the Silver Age by outstanding Russian artists. Portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Alexander Osmerkin and portrait of Mikhail Voloshin by Boris Kustodiev are among them. There are also some sketches to theater decorations by Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Mayakovsky, some caricatures and playbills. Esthetic atmosphere of the Silver Age interior is everywhere in this house, and even in the stylized cloak room.[edit] Photos
