Description of the attraction
The main attraction of the city of Lugansk is the House-Museum of V. Dahl. This ordinary, outwardly unremarkable one-story house is located in one of the working districts of the city, on the street of the same name, Dahl, 12. In 1801, the future famous writer and lexicographer V. I. Dal was born in this small house.
From the outside, the house-museum of V. Dahl seems quite small. In five rooms of V. Dahl's house-museum there are expositions dedicated to the life and work of the writer, as well as the history of the emergence of his "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language." All rooms of the house are filled with an extraordinary aura that radiates from the antiquities collected here: medical instruments of the 19th century, an old set, paintings, portraits of V. Dahl, his family and friends, a volume of a literary magazine of the beginning of the 19th century, all editions of "Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language ", as well as other books of the writer.
In addition, the house-museum contains a photocopy of Russian Fairy Tales, the first edition of which was almost completely destroyed by the tsarist censorship. The most valuable exhibit of the V. Dahl Museum are lithographs illustrating the note "Research on the Scopic Heresy", which was prepared by a writer-lexicographer when he was a government official. This note was made at a high level and came out in only 20 copies.
Today, the V. Dahl Museum conducts a very large scientific and educational work, which covers many aspects of "distant studies". In addition to excursions, the museum hosts meetings with famous poets, writers and literary evenings.
