Exhibition «Cities and Years. From the Literary Heritage of the 20th Century»

About exhibition

The exhibition reflects the literary process of the 20th century in Russia in all its contradictory fullness and objectively presents the work of K. Fedin — an outstanding Russian writer who consistently held humanist positions and defended universal human values and ideals. The halls are devoted to different periods of Russian literature: from the late 19th century to the 1980s of the 20th century. On display are unique autographs from K. Fedin's archive (Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolay Nekrasov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Boris Pasternak and other writers and poets), graphic and pictorial works (N. Shvede-Radlova, N. Navashina-Krandievskaya, G. Vereysky, K. Petrov-Vodkin, etc.), and art objects (an architectural reconstruction of the House of Arts, a theatrical corner). The object collections include K. Fedin's personal belongings: a typewriter, a smoking pipe, a cane, and cups decorated with hand-painted monograms for a wedding anniversary.