Description of the attraction
Literary Memorial Museum of N. V. Gogol is the first museum that was opened in the writer's homeland in Velikiye Sorochintsy, Mirgorodsky district, Poltava region. It was placed in the restored house of the local doctor M. Trokhimovsky, where the future writer was born in 1809.
The creation of this museum was initiated by the famous artist Ambrose Buchma during the filming of the film Sorochinskaya Yarmarka in 1929. In 1943, during the Great Patriotic War, the house was completely destroyed, and the museum exhibits burned down. After the war, it was decided to restore the museum and in 1951 it was reopened. In 1952, a bronze bust of the writer was installed in front of the facade of the museum.
The exposition of the museum is located in five rooms, in which the interiors of the 19th century have been recreated. More than seven thousand exhibits open the pages of Nikolai Gogol's life - his childhood and adolescence, his studies at the Nezhinskaya gymnasium of higher sciences, the Moscow and St. Petersburg periods of his life. The great value of the museum is the writer's personal belongings - his briefcase, top hat and notebook, as well as the first editions of his famous works "Evenings on a Farm near Dykanka", "The Inspector General", "Dead Souls" and others. Unique translations of these works into Ukrainian are kept here. language - "Dead souls, or Mandrivki Chichikov" by I. Frank, the book "Vechornitsi" translated by L. Ukrainka and M. Obachny, edited by O. Pchilka. You can see a collection of folk songs recorded by N. Gogol, which includes 412 Ukrainian and 105 Russian folk songs, published by G. Georgievsky in 1908. Also, the museum displays a rare photograph of Gogol's mother with children, a portrait of the writer by I. Repin, a copy of the posthumous Gogol's masks. Part of the exposition is occupied by illustrations to the writer's works and a unique phototype with a scene of the staging of the comedy "The Inspector General" in 1886 on the fiftieth anniversary of the play.
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