Museum exhibition 'The Bourgeois Administration Building'

About exhibition

The exhibition is presented in six halls, three of which are dedicated to the life and work of Alexey Koltsov. They introduce the poet's childhood and youth, the development of his creative path, and his meetings with A. S. Pushkin in Saint Petersburg and with V. A. Zhukovsky in Voronezh. Visitors can see an edition of Koltsov published during his lifetime with his autograph, sheet music, and rare 19th-century manuscripts. They can visit the memorial study of the writer Alexander Ertel. The room displays original furniture, books, documents, family photographs and drawings by his daughter Elena, and personal letters. The hall 'Voronezh Writers of the First Half of the 20th Century' tells about masters of the word who made a significant contribution to the development of national literature. The hall 'Soon the Tale Is Told' introduces the features of Voronezh's fairy-tale folklore of the 19th–20th centuries. It displays a manuscript, editions of Russian folk tales by Alexander Afanasyev, and authentic personal belongings of tale-tellers Anna Baryshnikova and Anna Korolkova.