The house – Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva offers updated Memorial apartment of the poet.
The Museum is opened the permanent exhibitions.
“The white crusade, you have found your chronicler” is the exhibition called a string of Tsvetayeva cycle “Swan mill”,which is dedicated to the White army. In the former “officer” the attic of the apartment are collected objects of everyday life of the Civil war and war communism. Photos of Tsvetaeva and her husband -Sergei Efron, the generals of the White army and paintings of life in contemporary Moscow give an idea of the years of the tests performed by the spouses apart. A peek into the inner world of the poet help stylized manuscripts of the poet extracts from notebooks Tsvetaeva. Detailed annotation tells about events of life of the family in 1915 – 1922.
In the former kitchen converted into a spacious exhibition hall, an exposition dedicated to the family Durnovo – Efron. New gift of the descendants of the family along with materials from the collections of the House – Museum for the first time detailed present visitors the story of a large, talented family husband Tsvetaeva. The involvement of parents in narodovlastie, arrests and deportations, forced emigration – this is the outline of the life of these cheerful, generous, noble people. Friendship with M. Voloshin, artistic and artistic inclinations of family members, substantial and difficult life E. Y. Efron, one of the family has lived long and almost replaced the mother orphaned niece of A. S. Efron. At the exhibition you can see the small picturesque and handiworks mother E. P. Durnovo, the first book of short stories of S. Y. Efron, watercolors Voloshin, blanket, sewn by his mother E. O. Voloshin. Tragic rarity – a marble slab from the grave of the mother and son E. P. Durnovo and K. Y. Efron, transported from Paris. Decoration of the exhibition was for the first time espanioly picturesque portrait of E. Y. Efron, thin and warm work M Sabashnikova.
The exhibition “The Poet and time” is located in the great hall opposite the Memorial, is a logical addition to the materials it presents. It tells about the life and career of Tsvetaeva, illustrates literary and socio – cultural context of late 19-th – first half of the 20-th century, reveals the scale of the poet’s personality and its importance in Russian culture, allows better and more fully present to her family and literary environment.
The exhibition starts with the family history, the origins of the genus. Photos I. V. Tsvetaeva’s father and mother – M. A. Mayne and grandfather, A. D. Mein, brother Andrew, and sisters Valeria and Anastasia. Books D. V. Tsvetaeva, the image of the family coat of arms < / b>, family things. The Museum of Fine arts – “huge younger brother” Tsvetayev sisters – presents old postcards with pictures of rooms, copies of Museum publications with autographs of I. V. Tsvetaeva, commemorative Museum.
Stay in Europe since 1902 till 1906, the trip to Italy, Switzerland, Germany, life on the Italian Riviera in the town of Nervi, studying in a French boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland and in the German boarding school in Freiburg illustrate postcards with the sights of these cities.
Literary environment of the young Tsvetaeva in Moscow symbolists, the Crimean environment – presents the portraits of A. White, L. Kobylinsky (Ellis), V. Bryusov, K. Balmont, M. Voloshin and others Petersburg contemporaries Tsvetaeva, her idols, recipients, and reviewers – A. Blok, A. Akhmatova, N. Gumilev, O. Mandelshtam, Mikhail Kuzmin, Esenin, Vyach. Ivanov is reflected rare editions of the early twentieth century, autographed by the authors.
The stormy life of the literary avant-garde is illustrated a rare edition of “Nikitinskii Saturdays”, LEF magazine autographed by Boris Pasternak, Tsvetaeva books “Mile”, “Mile – 1”, “tsarevna” designed by D. Mitrokhin; portraits of friends of the time.
Berlin is the starting point of emigration, 1922, On the arrival of M. Tsvetaeva said note by S. Efron. The portraits of A. Bely, A. Vishnyak, Ehrenburg surrounding Tsvetaeva in Berlin, side by side with published in the Berlin publishing books Tsvetaeva “Poems to Blok”, “Separation”, “The Tsar Maiden” designed by L. Chirikova. In the next window laid out museum exhibits that tell about life in the Czech Republic is three years, which she called the happiest in his life. There,she was born the beloved son of George Tsvetaeva. Photo of the statue of Tsvetayeva Brunswick with the inscription, copies of the journals “Will of Russia” and “The Ark”, the letters of A. Remizov and Tsvetaeva M. A. Obolensky, envelope Tsvetayeva’s letters to K. Rodzevich.
1925 – 1939 – the years spent by the family in France. “Heavenly arch” – the triple Alliance in correspondence with Boris Pasternak and R. M. Rilke. Memorabilia – postcards from the collection of Marina Tsvetaeva, map of Paris, owned by her daughter Ariadna Efron, amber beads & leather belt M. I. Tsveta
