We invite You in Tolstoy's center on Pyatnitskaya – 12, on 16.04.2015 to the exhibition "Leo Tolstoy. Dialogues with Russian writers"
The exhibition will be opened for visitors since 16.04.2015 till 16.08.2015 year.
Russian literature is not representable without Tolstoy, although rich in other names. The organizers of the exhibition aim is to show all the major writers of the XIX and XX centuries in dialogue with a Thick and each other. Partner Museum Tolstoy made the United Turgenev literary Museum in Orel. "The eagle has spoil on its shallow waters so many writers, how many do not put them on the benefit of the Motherland no other Russian city," said N. S. Leskov. Among the writers who were born and lived there, "I. S. Turgenev, A. A. Fet, L. N. Andreev, N. S. Leskov, I. A. Bunin. From there to Moscow will bring a real things of these writers.
Orlovsky, the Museum will show the unique materials: graphic image of Tolstoy Leonid Andreyev, portrait of Tolstoy Lev Lvovich Tolstoy, son of the writer, with endowment autograph Bunin, a picturesque image of the estate of Turgenev Spassky – lutovinova. Visitors will see how looked the sofa "Samson", on which rested a Thick, when she came to visit to Turgenev. Manuscripts Bunin, his portrait is the work of the Pregel, personal belongings Andreeva, books from the library Leskov is far not the full list of things that will add new touches to the images of writers. In the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow is stored vast correspondence Tolstoy with many writers. The real opening of the exhibition will be the originals of these letters for the first time will be shown in such variety. So, the letters will be possible to trace the dynamics of the complex relationship of Tolstoy and Turgenev, which was a place and a call to a duel.
The first hall of the exhibition is given to the writers of the XIX century and opens with the story of "Tolstoy and the circle of writers of the magazine "Sovremennik", the pages of which it debuted with the novel "Childhood". The guests will see the correspondence with Botkin, Druzhinin, Grigorovich. Special sections are devoted to relations with thick Fet (the visitors will show a document confirming that count Tolstoy made him boots), Leskovik (after reviewing the will of Leskov, Tolstoy, too, asked to be buried in the simplest way), Dostoevsky (will be shown the works of Dostoevsky, which were isolated in the Colon; as you know, on the eve of his departure from Yasnaya Polyana he read the novel "The Brothers Karamazov"). Interest will be photos thick with inscriptions by Gorky, Chekhov.
The second hall is a story about writers of the era of the XX century, associated with a Fet. Among them, I. A. Bunin, L. N. Andreev, A. I. Kuprin, V. G. Korolenko, D. S. Merezhkovsky, K. D. Balmont, I. A. Novikov.
The third hall is devoted to peasant literature. Tolstoy can be considered the godfather of this phenomenon. Opening publisher "Intermediary", the writer printed for the common people the works of Chekhov, Andreev, Bunin, Korolenko, and their stories. Writing the peasants often turned to him for help and always got her – Tolstoy considered himself a "lawyer of the 100 million agricultural people." At the exhibition you can see the documents and the works of writers – peasants such as M. P. Novikov, F. A. Zheltov, G. D. Grebenshchikov, I. F. Nagibina. Their fate in the XX century was tragic. It will be shown the books "Intermediary" and outstanding illustrations Pasternak, GE, Repin to people's stories of Tolstoy.
