Kursk Literary Museum

About museum

In 2009 a branch of the Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore was opened in Kursk. The museum presents materials on 136 poets and writers of the Kursk region, from the earliest times to the present. The exhibition features materials about Venerable Theodosius of the Caves — the first Russian saint from Kursk, the work "The Tale of Igor's Campaign", the poem "Dushenka" by I. F. Bogdanovich, the poet and Decembrist V. F. Raevsky, educator and writer Silvester Medvedev, historian N. A. Polevoy, poet A. A. Fet, the authors of the A. I. Solzhenitsyn Literary Prize Konstantin Vorobyov and Yevgeny Nosov, as well as the writers Nikolai Aseev, Arkady Gaidar, Pimen Karpov, Yuri German, Valentin Ovechkin, Alexander Krivitsky, Petr Salnikov, Mikhail Kolosov and Vladimir Detkov. Thus, the museum reflects the literary life of the Kursk region and contemporary enlightenment.