An exhibition in honor of the 220th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin opens in Kazan

Rarities of the Literary Museum of the Pushkin House and the Tsarskoye Selo Museum will be shown in Tatarstan for the first time.

(KZN.RU, July 16). The exhibition, dedicated to the 220th birth anniversary of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, opens in the Boratynsky Museum in Kazan.

The exhibition presents the collections of the three largest museums in Russia. For the first time, rarities of the Literary Museum of the Pushkin House of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Tsarskoye Selo Museum will be shown in Tatarstan. The exhibition will feature portraits and portrait miniatures of famous personalities of that era, military uniforms belonging to Emperor Alexander I, the collection of Baron Anton Delvig, views of Kazan and St. Petersburg, as well as a lithographed portrait of E. Boratynsky, donated to the museum in 2019. A significant contribution to the creation of the exhibition was made by the Lobachevsky Scientific Library of the Kazan Federal University. They provided rare editions of the first half of the XIX century, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture of the RT.

The exhibition will open on July 17 at 4 pm in the Boratynsky Museum, a branch of the National Museum of the RT.