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Exhibition "I am Dubrovsky"

December 4, 2020, the inter-museum exhibition project "I am Dubrovsky" will open at the "Sholokhov Center" of the National Sholokhov Museum-Reserve, prepared by the State Museum of Alexander Pushkin. 

During the poet's lifetime, the unfinished novel "Dubrovsky" was not published. The title was given to it by its publishers when first published in 1841. Both the poet's contemporaries and readers of subsequent generations left numerous critical responses about “Dubrovsky”. However, everyone unanimously acknowledged "strict fidelity" in the depiction of "the life of the old Russian nobility", its "accurate and vivid picture." 

The construction of the exhibition repeats the plot of Pushkin's novel and serves as a kind of commentary on it. The visitor will be able to learn about the history of the creation of the novel and get acquainted with its characters, visit the estate of Troekurov and the St. Petersburg apartment of Dubrovsky, in a peasant hut and a camp of robbers. 

Portraits, costumes, weapons, books, decorative and applied art and handwritten documents of the 18th – 19th centuries presented at the exhibition will provide an opportunity to feel the atmosphere of the era in which Pushkin's characters lived and made decisions. The exhibition helps immerse in the world of everyday life of a Russian nobleman. 

The exhibition will touch upon topics: matchmaking and marriage, the system of legal proceedings, the attitude of the landlord and serfs, popular revolt and many others. 

Thus, with the help of the everyday realities described in the novel, the visitor will be able to obtain information about the intellectual, moral and spiritual development of the Russian nobility of the 19th century. 

The exhibition "I am Dubrovsky" will run from December 4, 2020 to February 7, 2021 at the "Sholokhov Center" of the Sholokhov museum-reserve at the address: Rostov-on-Don, st. Bolshaya Sadovaya, 125/69. 

The museum is open daily from 10:00 to 19:00, closed on Monday.

Project participants:

State Museum of Alexander Pushkin

Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts

Moscow State United Art Historical-Architectural and Natural-Landscape Museum-Reserve

All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art

State Darwin Museum

State Historical, Artistic and Literary Museum-Reserve "Abramtsevo"

Azov Historical, Archaeological and Paleontological Museum-Reserve

Private collectors:

Andrey Kusakin

Sergey Podstanitsky