House-Museum of V.V. Veresaev

The house on Verkhne-Dvoryanskaya Street (now Gogolevskaya 82), which belonged to the family of the famous Tula doctor Vikenty Ignatievich Smidovich , was widely known in Tula in the 19th century. It was in this house on January 16 (4), 1867, that Vitya Smidovich was born, who later became a famous writer V.V. Veresaev. In Tula and the Tula province, the writer spent his childhood and youth (1867–1884), he came here on vacation during his studies (1884–1894). Here he lived during the expulsion from St. Petersburg in 1901-1903, and Veresaev returned here in the following years.

Subsequently, completely different people lived in the house, since all the relatives of Veresaev left Tula before 1917. The question of organizing the museum of V.V. Veresaev in Tula arose as far back as 1939, when the house where he was born was registered with the state as a monument of history and culture. In 1964, the niece of V.V. Veresaeva, Valeria Mikhailovna Nolde, transferred to Tula the furnishings of the writer's Moscow office, books from his library, portraits, photographs and other materials. But even then the museum could not be created. The writer’s house in Tula needed to be restored, but for this he had to be freed from the tenants. From 1986 to 1988 tenants relocated. Since that time, restoration work has begun. The scientific concept and thematic-exhibition plan of the museum was developed. The authors of the museum exposition are the museum director Lyubov Ivanovna Kuznetsova and senior researcher Valentina Olegovna Starostina. The decoration was performed by artists Boris Efimovich Bader and Igor Vyacheslavovich Misailov (St. Petersburg). The house-museum of V.V. Veresaev - the first literary and memorial museum in Tula - was opened on January 15, 1992 in the house number 82 on Gogolevskaya street, on the 125th anniversary of the writer.

The exhibition area of ​​the V.V. Veresaev House-Museum is 230 square meters. The museum’s exposition reflects the life and work of the writer and includes nine structural elements: the writer's childhood and adolescence, the memorial room of Viti Smidovich, studies in St. Petersburg and Derpt, the work of Veresaev in pre-revolutionary times, during the Soviet period, Pushkiniana, Veresaev - translator, Moscow office of the writer , Veresaev and modernity.

The exposition of the VV Veresaev House-Museum is based on the writer's memorial fund: books from his personal library, many autographed by famous writers, literary critics, art historians and translators (A. Chekhov, M. Gorky, L. Andreev and others); watercolor drawings by artists V. Polenov and M. Voloshin, with whom the writer communicated and was familiar. This is the first published poem of the writer, the manuscript of V.V. Veresaev, his letters, drafts, world-famous works in foreign languages ​​with the dedicatory inscriptions of translators. This unique collection of objects was donated to the V.V. Veresaev House-Museum by the niece and personal secretary of the writer Valeria Mikhailovna Nolde in 1964 and 1986.

The highlight of the museum’s exposition is the interior of the Moscow office of V.V. Veresaev, recreated from photographs and memoirs of the writer’s relatives. In the office you can see the desk at which V.V. Veresaev worked, an ink device, a library, furniture, and personal belongings of the writer.
The museum’s exposition is interesting in content and decoration and attracts the attention of visitors, including schoolchildren and students, teachers and doctors, workers and office workers, tourists and sightseers from many cities of Russia and other countries.

In addition to self-examination of the exposition or a sightseeing tour of the museum, visitors are offered thematic tours:

• "The life and work of V.V. Veresaev";
• "The childhood of the writer V.V. Veresaev";
• “The Smidovich Family”;
• "Medicine in the life and work of V.V. Veresaev."

One of the forms of cooperation between the V.V. Veresaev’s House-Museum and Tula general educational institutions was the visit by students of literary and musical lounges devoted to the life and work of the classics of Russian literature, which are combined in a cycle called the “Literary Wreath”. The specificity of the literary and musical living rooms held at the V.V. Veresaev House-Museum is to study the personality of the writer in the context of the literary life of a certain historical period, as well as to reinforce the material with unique exhibits from museum funds.

The house-museum of V.V. Veresaev today is also the spiritual center of culture and literature of our city. In the living room of the museum are performances of Tula writers, presentations of literary printed novelties. Such meetings are united in the cycle of events “Literary Media” in the V.V. Veresaev House-Museum.

One of the innovative projects was the creation on the basis of our museum of the literary association "Muse", working with young authors of Tula and the Tula region.

Museum-pedagogical programs “My Fatherland”, “Tula Territory - Love and Know!”, “Holidays in the Museum”, “Where the Homeland Begins (traditions of the Smidovich family)” were specially developed for preschoolers and younger schoolchildren. These programs included interactive classes with game elements, quizzes, using items from the collections of the V.V. Veresaev House-Museum, children's literature of the 19th century, and music.

Interactive holiday programs include games, tea parties, presenting gifts and prizes, mini-exhibitions of children's drawings and crafts. These are traditional holidays such as Christmas, New Year, Easter, Shrovetide and many others. Museum researchers give lectures on the life and work of Veresaev and other Tula writers. The museum takes an active part in various city and national events, develops programs and services for different categories of citizens.

The house-museum of V.V. Veresaev organizes and conducts scientific conferences "Veresaev readings", at which literary critics and museum workers in Moscow, Tula, Yasnaya Polyana, the writer’s relatives, speak.

Museum employees also have a number of publications in the magazines Prioksky Zori, Lyceum on Pushkinskaya, the bulletin of the Association of Museums of Russia, and other publications that reflect the vibrant life of the V.V. Veresaev House-Museum.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin, the V.V. Veresaev House Museum initiated and organized the Pushkin Readings, which took place in 1999 with the participation of museum workers and literary scholars from Moscow and Tula, the descendants of the poet. The museum organized an anniversary exhibition. And the senior researcher at the V.V. Veresaev’s House-Museum, I. G. Sokolova, published the catalog “Pushkiniana in VV Veresaev’s personal library: A catalog of books, brochures and periodicals in the memorial fund of V.V. Veresaev’s House-Museum in Tula city. " - Tula: Grif and Co. °, 1999.24 s.

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• Official site
• Website dedicated to V.V. Veresaev