Exhibition of the K. I. Chukovsky House Museum

About exhibition

The interior of Chukovsky's house museum has been preserved as it was in the last years of the writer's life. Photographs, graphics, paintings and the collection of books recall Korney Chukovsky's connections with the leading figures of Russian culture in the first quarter of the 20th century: Ilya Repin, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Leonid Andreyev, Boris Grigoriev and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The museum preserves Solzhenitsyn's desk and exhibits that evoke his work. Also preserved is Lidiya Chukovskaya's room, where she lived and worked in the 1970s. A large part of the exhibition is occupied by the writer's working library, numbering about 4,500 books, over a thousand of which are in foreign languages (mainly English). The museum's exhibits reflect different strands of Korney Chukovsky's personal and literary life: the gown of an Oxford Doctor of Letters, gifts from children and adults not only from Russia but also from England, Japan and the United States.