Exhibition 'Literary Life of Kuban'

About exhibition

The Literary Museum of Kuban opened on September 1, 1988. It is located in an architectural monument of the first quarter of the 19th century — the house of the Nakaznoy Ataman of the Black Sea Cossack Host, Ya. G. Kukharenko, one of the first Kuban writers. The museum's exhibition presents the literary life of Kuban from the first half of the 18th century to the present day. Visitors can see unique manuscripts and early printed books; a collection of pre-revolutionary periodicals; historical and ethnographic essays by well-known regional researchers — I. Popki, F. Shcherbina, E. Felitsyn, P. Korolenko; materials recounting the stays in the region of D. Bedny, V. Vishnevsky, V. Mayakovsky, N. Ostrovsky; recordings of Kuban writers who participated in the Great Patriotic War and of contemporary authors. One section of the museum is dedicated to the building's former owner — Ya. G. Kukharenko. The exhibition includes books and documents telling about his family's life and much more. A special place is occupied by part of the library that was on board a torpedo boat that sank during the Kerch–Eltigen operation in November 1943. The books were found by an underwater expedition of the museum-reserve in 2012.