About museum

The House of the Russian Abroad named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn is a unique complex that includes a museum, archive, library, research, information-publishing and cultural-educational centers. The goal of their activities is to focus on and study the cultural heritage of the Russian abroad, to develop relations and strengthen ties with compatriots outside Russia.

The main exhibition of the Museum of the Russian Abroad, opened in 2019, introduces visitors to the history of Russian emigration. The House's museum collection contains more than 8,000 items, and the archive holds over 25,000 storage units. The House's library has significant historical and cultural value (more than 130,000 copies of publications, of which 80% are émigré editions).

A branch of the House is the Memorial Museum-Apartment of A. I. Solzhenitsyn, located at the historic address in Moscow: Tverskaya Street, building 12, structure 8, where A. I. Solzhenitsyn lived with his family before his expulsion from the USSR.

Museum features

Дата основания

1995 год

Бюджетный статус

Subject of the Russian Federation

Классификация организации

non-profit institution

Предметы музея

Collection of Yu. N. Reitlinger (Sister Ioanna, 1898–1988). Murals painted in 1932 in the Church of St. John the Warrior in Meudon (near Paris), drawings and memorial items - 185 items in storage. Fine art collection: paintings and drawings by émigré artists of Russian origin (A. N. Benois, K. A. Korovin, F. I. Chaliapin, A. M. Remizov, N. P. Ryabushinsky, S. Gollerbach, V. Ilyakhinsky, Yu. Bobritsky, V. Gashurova, G. von Svetlik, G. Kosmiadi, E. Klimov and others) - 568 items in storage. Phaleristics and numismatics collection: insignia, awards, coins of pre-revolutionary Russia, the White movement, commemorative émigré medals - 290 items in storage. Sculpture collection: posthumous mask of F. I. Chaliapin (France, 1938), sculptural portrait of S. M. Lifar made in 1944 by the French sculptor F. Konye, sculptural portrait of A. I. Solzhenitsyn by K. Novachev, sculpture of a rider in the parade uniform of an officer of the Sumy Hussar Regiment by A. Karamzin and others - 6 items in storage. Clothing and textiles collection is represented by part of Tsarevich Alexei's blanket knitted by his sisters (1910s), collections of Old Believers' clothing (Argentina) and uniforms of military-sport organizations of the Russian abroad from the 1950s–1970s ('Russky Sokol', 'Vityazi') - 95 items in storage. Printed and documentary sources collection: charters granted by Peter I (1719), Catherine II (1765) and Emperor Franz Joseph (1871) - 221 items in storage. Collection of geographic maps and schemes (mid-17th – early 20th century), collections of postcards on the history of the Russian abroad, posters of Russian abroad theaters - 104 items in storage. Photo archive: albums 'From the Life of the Society of Russian Veterans of the Great War', 'Finnish Dragoon Regiment', 'Practical Works of the Demolition Team of the 3rd Reserve Sapper Battalion', 'Petersburg - Moscow', 'Shtandart', albums with photographs of the Life-Guards Hussar Regiment at maneuvers, etc. - 295 items in storage. Most notable items of the collections.

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