Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaevs Literary and Art Museum description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Alexandrov (Topic)

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In the city of Aleksandrov, Vladimir region, there is the Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaevs Literary and Art Museum, which was founded with the support of the public fund of the museum of the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva in the summer of 1991 during the holidays dedicated to poetry. Holidays of this kind have been held in Alexandrov since 1982, and are called Tsvetaevsky Poetry Festivals. The open museum became the first of its kind among Tsvetaevo museums that appeared in Russia. In the year of opening, the museum was transferred to the management of the city administration, after which it became completely municipal.

According to the idea of the creators, the museum was supposed to be a museum-metaphor - this means that the museum truly reproduces the inherent in Tsvetaevo time atmosphere.

As you know, the Tsvetaev family for a long period of time lived in the Vladimir province. Tsvetaev Alexander Vasilievich in 1856-1897 served as a priest in a small church in the village of Zinovyevo. Alexander Vasilyevich was a great-uncle of the Tsvetaev sisters. Beginning in 1877, he was a dean in his district, and in 1888 he was elevated to the honorary rank of archpriest. A year after the promotion of the rank, Alexander Vasilyevich died and was buried in a cemetery in the same village.

In the first years of the Second World War, Mavriky Aleksandrovich Mints, a chemical engineer, was sent to the city of Aleksandrov, as well as the second husband of Tsvetaeva Anastasia Ivanovna. Due to her husband's move, Anastasia Ivanovna moved to Alexandrov with her young son Andrei.

For the residence of his family, Mavriky Aleksandrovich rented a small but cozy house on the outskirts of the city in a green area. The house belonged to one of the honorary citizens of Aleksandrov, mathematics teacher Alexei Andreevich Lebedev.

The so-called "Tsvetaevo house" is the location of the museum exhibition. The summer of 1916 was spent in this house for the family of Mavriky Alexandrovich; in some literary sources one can find the name “Alexandrovsky summer of Marina Tsvetaeva”. During this period, the poetess was often in the province and lived here for a long time, creating her unique poems. Osip Mandelstam often came to visit her, with whom they walked around the city and often visited her favorite place, namely the old cemetery. One of Mandelstam's poems is dedicated to Tsvetaeva - "Not believing a miracle on Sunday." This dedication gave Marina Ivanovna the reason for the appearance in 1931 of an essay entitled "The History of My Dedication", written in Paris and telling in detail about her stay in the city of Alexandrov and her numerous meetings with Mandelstam. The essay served as the beginning for the Tsvetaevsky movement throughout the city.

The creation of the museum was carried out with generous donations that were collected by the Tsvetaevsky Foundation. The exposition of the museum is considered a real masterpiece, because its author was Avet Aleksandrovich Tavrizov, the best museum designer. The museum funds number about 25 thousand storage units, among which of particular importance is the full complex of manuscripts and things of Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the seascape of Lagorio Lev, as well as the things of the Lumba-Gertsyk family and watercolors by Voloshin Maximilian.

Over the entire period of its existence, a friendly team of like-minded people has formed in the museum. The most important principle of the museum was the saying - "An excursion for every visitor." An important fact is that a large number of schoolchildren and teachers are showing an exorbitant interest in museum exhibitions.

The Chamber Music Hall is open from autumn to spring and holds up to 40 concerts. The museum organized Tsvetaevsky poetry festivals, which were the only ones of their kind in the country, held as part of Tsvetaevsky holidays. Every year the museum holds about ten exhibitions, and some are even exhibited abroad.

In 2001, the museum was recognized as one of the best in Russia, despite the fact that its budgetary state is very modest, and the entire staff of the museum, including caretakers and technicians, has only 15 people.

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