The exhibition features unique personal documents and photos, bibliographic rarities, and paintings by Kirov artists\r\n\r\nOn July 20 the A.S. Grin Museum (a branch of the Kirov Regional Museum of Local Lore named after P.V. Alabin) opened the exhibition "Alexander Grin. The Magic of Personality" (6+). It is timed to coincide with the 145th anniversary of the writer's birth and the 45th anniversary of the museum.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition project reveals anew the complex and multifaceted personality of the writer, and also shows how Grin's work has been reflected in painting, theatre, music, and sculpture. A separate section tells about the commemoration of the writer both in Kirov and in other cities of Russia and the world.\r\n\r\nA unique exhibit is the parish register entry of the birth and baptism of Aleksandr Grinevsky. The document is an authentic original source with certifying signatures and a red sealing-wax seal on paper from the second half of the 19th century.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition also presents bibliographic rarities: Grin's books published in the first half of the 20th century: "Fantastic Novellas" (1934), "The Road to Nowhere" (1935), "On the Cloudy Shore" (1929).\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is further enriched by works of art from the collections of the Kirov Regional Museum of Local Lore: illustrations by artist A. Kharsak for Grin's novella "Scarlet Sails"; as well as portraits of Grin by various authors and in different genres: linocuts by A. Malyshev, an autolithograph by G. Nemenova, works by V. Manaenkov and S. Gorbachev, a woodcut by A. Kolchanov, and a decorative panel by artist A. Belik.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the exhibition is seamlessly integrated into the permanent display "Childhood and Youth of the Romantic Grin" (0+), which was opened in the museum at the end of 2024. It was then, after the building's restoration, that the display was supplemented with new items related to the writer, his family and circle.
