Tembot Kerashev Literary Museum

About museum

Tembot Magometovich Kerashev was the founder of Adyghe Soviet prose, a laureate of the USSR State Prize, and a holder of the Orders of Lenin, the October Revolution, the Red Banner of Labour, and Friendship of Peoples; he was the first editor of the newspaper "Adygeyskaya Pravda" ("The Voice of the Adyghe" since 08.03.1923), the first director of the research institute, and a delegate to the congresses of the CPSU, the Union of Soviet Writers of the USSR, and the trade unions of the USSR.
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\r\nOn September 27, 2002, the Tembot Kerashev Literary Museum was opened on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth.
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\r\nThe museum is located in an apartment and consists of three exhibition rooms. The first two halls contain the museum's exhibition, which tells about the life, work and public activities of the writer. The exhibition features photographs, original documents, personal belongings, first editions of the writer's works, and gifts. The writer's archive is preserved in the museum. The museum's collection comprises 5,104 items. The exhibition presents the most significant and unique museum pieces, about 300 exhibits. All the personal effects of the great writer that became museum items were preserved and donated to the museum by Tembot Kerashev's widow, Zuza Iskhakovna Kerasheva; thanks to this, the museum has a uniquely authentic atmosphere.
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\r\nIn the third room of the museum the "T. Kerashev Study" has been reconstructed, recreating the creative atmosphere that prevailed during the writer's life in the 1960s. Visitors can see the writer's personal belongings, manuscripts and the unique library assembled by the writer himself.
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\r\nThe intimate setting of the T. Kerashev Literary Museum is ideal for creative meetings of contemporary writers, humanities scholars, schoolchildren and students.