The A. S. Pushkin Museum was opened in May 1999, in Kiev, the day before the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet. The exposition is based on a collection of Yakov Berdichevsky, the Kiever and Pushkin scholar. When he left to move to Germany, he gifted his collection to the city with proviso that a museum would be established.
The museum was gifted a modest mansion in Kudryavskaya Street, 9, built in 1880s and famous because Mikhail Bulgakov lived there in his boyhood days.
To be honest, Alexander Sergeevich had never been in this house. The famous Pushkin places in Kiev are considered to be the house of the Raevsky family in Grushevskaya St, 14, and the Zelenaya Hotel in Pechersk, nonexistent now, where the classic had stayed.
Pushkin was very interested in Ukraine. He even has an extensive work called "The Essay on the History of Ruthenia". Just few people know that the poem Ruslan and Ludmila is dedicated to Kiev. The line "On seashore far a green oak towers…" is about the Kiev Garden. In addition, Ludmila was a daughter of Vladimir the Krasno Solnyshko (literally, the Fair Sun). Ruslan fought with the Pincenates under the walls of ancient Kiev.
The museum exposition has interesting rare books with author marks by friends and contemporaries of the poet who are not only the men of pen but also known politicians and statesmen.
The collection keeps also rare lifetime editions of Pushkin. The first edition of Ruslan and Ludmila, for instance, is held there. The most valuable exhibited item, that even the Moscow museum has not had until recently, is the Onegin notebooks. The situation was that the poem Eugene Onegin had been issued chapter by chapter over an eight year period. Only in 1833, its first full edition was published. The Onegin notebooks are also from the Berdichevsky collection. There is also the first edition of the South Poems "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray" and "The Prisoner of the Caucasus".
The museum exhibits a full height statue of the poet created by Alexander Terebenev, the sculptor, in 1837. It consists of a blend of crushed minerals called "biscuit". One of the most valuable items of the museum is an edition of The Sovremennik magazine (literally, The Contemporary) with a censorial permission by Krylov which Pushkin kept in his hands. The poet composed the second volume of the magazine by himself.
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