Exhibition "Kuban Literary Museum"

About exhibition

The Kuban Literary Museum is housed in an architectural monument of the first quarter of the 19th century — the house of Ya. Kukharenko, the appointed ataman of the Black Sea Cossack Host and one of the first Kuban literati. 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 manuscript and early-printed books, a collection of pre-revolutionary periodicals, and historical-ethnographic essays by the region's noted researchers — I. Popka, F. Shcherbina, E. Felitsyn, P. Korolenko — as well as materials documenting the stays in the region of D. Bedny, V. Vishnevsky, V. Mayakovsky, and N. Ostrovsky, and writings by Kuban authors who participated in the Great Patriotic War and by contemporary writers. One section of the museum is devoted to the building's former owner, Ya. Kukharenko. The exhibition includes books and documents that recount his family's life and much more. A special place is given to part of a library that had been aboard a torpedo boat that sank during the Kerch–Eltigen operation in November 1943. The books were discovered by the museum-reserve's underwater expedition in 2012.