Marina Tsvetaeva Museum, village of Usen-Ivanovskoye

About museum

On September 25, 1993, the Marina Tsvetaeva Museum was opened in the Usen-Ivanovskoye forestry. It is a literary and art museum dedicated to the Russian poetess and is a branch of the National Literary Museum. A memorial plaque is also installed at the house where Marina Tsvetaeva lived. The museum's collections consist of more than 1,000 storage units, including books, a portrait of M. I. Tsvetaeva (artist — A. V. Sharabarov), photographic materials and exhibits. The museum complex includes: Pushkin Posad, Tsvetaeva Alley, Maiden Spring, Pushkin Alley, the Baron's Pond, a 19th-century Old Believers' church and a commemorative marker. In 1992, on the 100th anniversary of Marina Tsvetaeva's birth, the first monument to the poetess in Russia was erected, created by sculptor Yu. F. Soldatov. The museum regularly holds exhibitions and Tsvetaeva readings, and there is a Marina Tsvetaeva Street in the village.