Exhibition 'Traveling to Astrakhan'

About exhibition

Traveling to Astrakhan down the Volga, well-known writers, artists, scientists, merchants, military and state figures left their travel impressions in various written sources: diaries, essays, memoirs, on the basis of which books were published. Different perspectives on the image of the city and its inhabitants — through the eyes of travelers of past years — make it possible to learn which sights and special places attracted attention. The exhibition features over 60 items, among which you can see a typewriter, a Persian mace, a figurine of the deity Yama, herbarium specimens and paintings, as well as clothing items from the 19th–20th centuries — a blouse, a skirt, a lady's hat, a belt. The photographs on display capture Astrakhan of past centuries — 'Persian Mosque', 'Great Moscow Hotel', 'Winter Theatre of the heirs of Plotnikov', 'Historic house in the old Zhitinsky craft district', 'Arkady's Garden'. Through the travelers' paintings, the city's landscapes are conveyed — the former Indian merchants' courtyard, the pier, the bazaar in the Kremlin.