Exhibition "The Manager's Office (Boris Zbarsky in Vsevolodo-Vilva)"

About exhibition

The exhibition is dedicated to the stay of B. I. Zbarsky and B. L. Pasternak in Vsevolodo-Vilva in 1915–1916. The name of the biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky (1885–1954) is firmly established in the history of Russian science: he developed a method for producing anesthetic chloroform, and was one of the leaders and founders of the L. Karpov Physico-Chemical Institute, the Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, and the Institute of Nutrition. A special place in Zbarsky's biography was the period when he was part of the team that embalmed V. I. Lenin's body. In July 1915 Boris Zbarsky received an offer to take the post of manager of the Vsevolodo-Vilva estate and director of two chemical plants. He "with all his passion" immersed himself in the intricacies of his new work: from the first days he began reforming production, proved to be a socially responsible manager, and his thirst as a scientist-inventor was also satisfied — in Vsevolodo-Vilva he developed a method for producing medical chloroform. Documents and photographs from Moscow archives, the private collections of Ilya and Viktor Zbarsky, and the holdings of the Mendeleev and Perm local history museums tell the story of Zbarsky's year-long stay in Vsevolodo-Vilva and his meeting with B. L. Pasternak. The scientist served as the model for those of the writer's characters in whom a propensity for heroism was evident. To recreate the atmosphere of the manager's life, the exhibition presents interior and household items from the early 20th century from the collection of the Perm Local History Museum.