K. L. Khetagurov Museum of Ossetian Literature

About museum

The K. L. Khetagurov Museum of Ossetian Language and Literature is part of the National Museum of the RSO–Alania as a branch. The mansion that houses the museum was built in 1901–1914 and has the status of a cultural heritage site of republican significance.
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\r\nUntil 1918 it housed the Museum of the Terek Oblast. The decision to establish the Museum of Ossetian Literature was made in 1939 in connection with the 80th anniversary of K. L. Khetagurov's birth. It was created on the basis of the department for the study and preservation of K. L. Khetagurov's literary heritage, which had existed since 1936 within the North Ossetian Research Institute.
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\r\nDuring research trips by museum staff to places where K. L. Khetagurov lived and worked, previously unknown material was collected that characterizes Khetagurov's work as an artist — paintings, sketches and drawings. A priceless and unique exhibit of the museum is the poetry collection "Poems" (1895), published during the poet's lifetime with his personal corrections.
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\r\nThe exhibition created in 1989 included sections reflecting folk art, the emergence of Ossetian writing, the literary heritage of Ossetian writers of the late 19th century and Ossetian Soviet literature, as well as thematic exhibition complexes devoted to writers (Russian and foreign) who at various times visited Vladikavkaz; and to Ossetian writers who remained on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.