Exhibitions of the Tembot Kerashev Literary Museum

About exhibition

Tembot Magometovich Kerashev was the founder of Adyghe Soviet prose, the first editor of the newspaper “Adygeyskaya Pravda” (“The Voice of the Adyghe” from March 8, 1923), the first director of a research institute, and a delegate to the congresses of the CPSU, the Union of Soviet Writers of the USSR, and the trade unions of the USSR. The museum is located in an apartment and consists of three exhibition halls. The first two halls present exhibitions about the writer’s life, work, and public activities, featuring photographs, original documents, personal belongings, first editions of the author’s works, and gifts. The writer’s archive is also kept there. The museum’s collection comprises 5,104 items. The third room houses a reconstructed study of Kerashev, recreating the creative atmosphere that prevailed during the writer’s life in the 1960s. Visitors can see personal belongings, manuscripts, and a unique library assembled by the author himself.