Exhibition 'Punin-Akhmatova Memorial Apartment'

About exhibition

The exhibition tells of the Soviet period of Russian history, when members of the Silver Age intelligentsia had to preserve their world and their individuality under the conditions of a totalitarian state. The historical destinies of the 20th century, reflected in Akhmatova's fate, are revealed through the variety of museum objects. The exhibition is divided into a memorial section, which restored the Punin-Akhmatova apartment's appearance of the 1920s–1940s, and a literary section governed by a special logic — sub specie aeternitis ("from the perspective of eternity"), or, according to Akhmatova's poetic formula: "I remember everything at the same time…" Using multimedia technologies, the visitor can engage in direct communication with an exhibit. In response to a directed hand movement, as if to a question addressed to an object in the display case, it lights up, and texts appear on the black screen — brief informative texts and Akhmatova's own: her remarks, diary entries, and fragments of her absurdist drama "Enuma Elish".