Exhibition "I. A. Goncharov and the Decembrists"

About exhibition

The exhibition project is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising and the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local History named after I. A. Goncharov. The exhibition tells about Goncharov's connections with the Decembrists. The future writer was 13 years old when the events of December 1825 took place. Meanwhile, in his memoirs "At Home" he will describe the changes he observed in Simbirsk society after the December uprising. In Simbirsk he heard from his godfather N. Tregubov the story of the Decembrist V. Ivashev and K. Le-Dantyu. In the original conception of the novel "Obryv" (The Precipice) this was meant to be reflected in the story of Mark Volokhov and Vera. The exhibition displays portraits and books, rare documents and photographs, a unique collection donated to the museum by the descendants of the Simbirsk Decembrist V. Ivashev, and an edition published during Goncharov's lifetime of the essay "Across Eastern Siberia," in which Goncharov recounted his personal meetings with some of the Decembrists in Irkutsk when returning from a voyage on the frigate "Pallada".