“Literary Life of the Urals of the 19th Century” is a literary museum in the city of Yekaterinburg . It is part of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals [2] .
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| Established | 1996 year [1] |
| Address | 620075, Yekaterinburg , Tolmacheva street, 41 [2] |
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Museum and Building History
The museum was opened on June 21, 1996 in the house number 41 on Tolmacheva street (former Kolobovskaya street).
Maria Yakimovna Alekseeva, the first wife of Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak, lived in this house . Maria Yakimovna and Dmitry Narkisovich met in 1877 in Nizhny Salda.
In March 1878, Dmitry Narkisovich moved to Yekaterinburg, and first lived in private apartments: in the house of E. I. Zubrinskaya on Bolshaya Voznesenskaya street (present Karl Liebknecht street), in the house of the Furman sisters on Bolshaya Voznesenskaya street, in the house of Bezborodov on Razgulyaevskaya street (today's Gogol street) and on others.
In 1879, Dmitry Narkisovich moved to this house. He lived here for several years and created a significant number of works.
Since 1881, essays and short stories of the writer have been published in progressive Russian magazines and newspapers. Later, the writer combined the best of these works into a series of Ural Stories published in a separate book in 1888.
M. Ya. Alekseeva, being highly cultured and educated, prompted D.N. Mamin new topics for his works, including for the novel "Mountain Nest", telling about the life of the Ural factories.
In this house, work was underway on the novel " Privalov millions ." On the last page of the last version, the writer marked with his own hand: “This manuscript was finished in Yekaterinburg, in Kolobovskaya Street, in the house of Alekseeva, 1883. September 2 at 1 hour 34 minutes in the afternoon. "
This house was visited by representatives of the progressive public of Yekaterinburg.
In the evenings, a “Mom’s circle” was gathering in the house, which included lawyers N. F. Magnitsky, I. N. Klimshin, M. E. Ketov, A. A. Volkman, writer N. V. Kazantsev and others. There were discussions of the events of Russia and the Urals, novelties of literature and art.
D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak was a good storyteller and witty, animated interlocutor. M. Ya. Alekseeva played the piano beautifully. According to the recollections of the friends of the writer, the meetings in the house were extremely interesting.
On January 13, 1982, by decision of the Sverdlovsk Executive Committee of the City Council, the building at 41 Tolmacheva was transferred to the museum.
In May 1990, the house was renovated and opened to visitors.
With the opening of the museum, on the 130th anniversary of the birth of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and on the 100th anniversary of his trip to Sakhalin , the exhibition “Chekhov’s World” was held, at which Chekhov’s original items from the Yalta Museum were used.
The museum has documents telling about the famous Yekaterinburg - contemporaries of Mamin-Sibiryak, about the theatrical and musical life of the city at that time [1] [3] .
Building Features
By design, the house is half-stone.
The house has large windows in patterned platbands.
On the street facade, the windows are located at the sidewalk level, in the courtyard - slightly higher. It is very likely that there was a kitchen and other office space.
The iron roof is decorated with a three-stage turret with two tiers of complex wooden carvings.
The bottom of the house is brick, plastered from the street facade.
The entrances to the house are located from the courtyard and from the street.
Inside the house there is a wooden staircase with ancient balusters connecting the first and second floors.
In the courtyard adjacent to the house is a two-story terrace, open at the bottom and glazed at the top [1] .