Description of the attraction
In the town of Alexandrov, Vladimir Region, there is the Marina and Anastasia Tsvetaevs Literary and Art Museum, which was founded with the support of the public fund of the museum of the poetess Marina Tsvetaeva in the summer of 1991 during the holidays dedicated to poetry. Holidays of this kind have been held in Aleksandrov since 1982, and are called Tsvetaevsky Poetry Festivals. The open museum became the first of its kind among Tsvetaevo museums that appeared in Russia. In the year of opening, the museum was transferred to the management of the city administration, after which it became completely municipal.
According to the idea of the creators, the museum was supposed to be a museum-metaphor - this means that the museum truly reproduces the atmosphere inherent in Tsvetaevo's time.
As you know, the Tsvetaev family lived in the Vladimir province for a long period of time. Tsvetaev Alexander Vasilyevich in 1856-1897 served as a priest in a small church in the village of Zinovyevo. Alexander Vasilievich was a great-uncle of the Tsvetaev sisters. Beginning in 1877, he was dean in his district, and in 1888 he was elevated to the honorary rank of archpriest. A year after the promotion of the rank, Alexander Vasilyevich died and was buried in a cemetery in the same village.
In the early years of the Second World War, Mintz Mavriky Alexandrovich, a chemical engineer, and also the second husband of Anastasia Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, was sent to the city of Alexandrov to build a plant. Due to her husband's move, Anastasia Ivanovna moved to Aleksandrov with her young son Andrei.
For the residence of his family, Mavriky Alexandrovich rented a small but cozy house on the outskirts of the city in a green area. The house belonged to one of the honorary citizens of Aleksandrov, the mathematics teacher Alexei Andreevich Lebedev.
The so-called "Tsvetaevsky house" is the location of the museum exposition. The summer of 1916 for the family of Mavriky Alexandrovich passed in this house; in some literary sources one can find the name “Alexandrovsky summer of Marina Tsvetaeva”. During this period, the poetess was often in the province and lived here for a long time, creating her unique poems. Osip Mandelstam often came to visit her, with whom they took walks around the city and often visited her favorite place, namely the old cemetery. One of Mandelstam's poems is dedicated to Tsvetaeva - "Not believing a miracle on Sunday." This dedication gave Marina Ivanovna the reason for the appearance in 1931 of an essay entitled "The History of My Dedication", written in Paris and telling in detail about her stay in the city of Alexandrov and numerous meetings with Mandelstam. The essay served as the beginning for the Tsvetaevo movement throughout the city.
The creation of the museum was carried out with generous donations, which were collected by the Tsvetaevsky Foundation. The exposition of the museum is considered a real masterpiece, because its author was Tavrizov Avet Alexandrovich - the best of the museum designers. The museum funds number about 25 thousand storage units, among which of particular importance is the full complex of manuscripts and things of Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the seascape of Lagorio Lev, as well as things of the Lumba-Gertsyk family and watercolors by Voloshin Maximilian.
Over the entire period of its existence, a friendly team of like-minded people has formed in the museum. The most important principle of the museum was the dictum - "An excursion for every visitor."An important fact is that a large number of schoolchildren and teachers are showing an exorbitant interest in museum exhibitions.
The Chamber Music Hall is open from autumn to spring and holds up to 40 concerts. The museum organized the Tsvetaevsky poetry festivals, which were the only ones of their kind in the country, held as part of the Tsvetaevsky holidays. Every year the museum holds about ten exhibitions, and some are even exhibited abroad.
In 2001, the museum was recognized as one of the best in Russia, despite the fact that its budgetary state is very modest, and the entire staff of the museum, including caretakers and technicians, numbers only 15 people.
