There is an amazing place in Yekaterinburg - a park that has no analogues and has gathered several museums. Today it is an amazingly beautiful urban island with old lanterns, well-groomed wooden buildings, shady alleys (many trees are more than 200 years old), stone pavements, arbors and molded figured grates. The center of the museum exposition is the open summer stage “shell”, where in the evenings musical groups perform classical music. Here he is - the Literary quarter in Yekaterinburg.
Extraordinary association
Today, this museum is one of the largest in Russia. It synthesizes not only the usual museum activities. The center is involved in theater and publishing, as well as collecting and processing materials on the history of literature in the region. The museum is also unique in the country’s only printed periodical - the Literary Quarter magazine.
Two buildings of the house-museum are included in the association: D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak and P.P. Bazhov (in the city). Several museum buildings:
- F.M. Reshetnikova;
- P.P. Bazhov (in Sysert);
- "Literary life of the Urals of the XX century";
- "Literary life of the Urals of the XIX century";
- Puppet and children's book "Wonderland";
- buildings of the chamber theater, summer stage and fund department.
The address of the Literary quarter in Yekaterinburg: Proletarskaya street, 18.
Museum "Literary Life of the Urals of the 19th Century"
Near the quiet Temple is not very noticeable old two-story house. The regulars of these places say that in the evenings, if you listen carefully, you can hear a gentle female voice performing a romance to the sounds of a piano. The walls of this house hide many secrets. One of them is the scandalous and tragically ending love story of Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak and Maria Yakimovna Alekseeva (she owned the house). Today there is a museum. His expositions reflect the most fruitful period of the writer's work and the whole life of the literary circles of the Urals of that period. The museum exhibits documents telling about the famous contemporaries of Mamin-Sibiryak, about the musical and theatrical life of the city. The atmosphere of these years is recreated in literary lounges, at musical evenings and hours of home readings, which are included in the work program of museum workers.
Museum "Literary Life of the Urals of the XX Century"
This building of the Literary quarter in Yekaterinburg is special. A unique patterned tower with a high porch, decorated with openwork railings with a canopy, a silver roof of different heights with transparent wooden lace running along the ledge, with round and semicircular windows and high doors with blind carvings and mysterious drawings. Today this house is an architectural monument of Russian wooden provincial Art Nouveau. He was "born" in the "Silver Age", and opened with the exposition "Alexander Blok and" The Silver Age of Russian Culture "." Since then, the museum has had many wonderful exhibitions. The exhibition “Tales of the Ural Mountains” aroused very lively interest. No less interesting was the exhibition, which came from the municipal library of French Grenoble: "Stendhal: a rebel and a dreamer." In its framework, writers from Italy, France, the USA, China and other countries met.
The museum is very active. Within its walls, meetings of beginning writers, romance evenings, presentations of new collections of poets and prose writers, exhibitions of young artists, children's matinees, family holidays, etc. are held.
Museum of Dolls and Children's Book "Wonderland"
Like the entire Literary Quarter (Yekaterinburg), this museum is unique. Nowhere else in the world is there such a collection of literary characters from works for children made in the form of dolls and rare children's books of the 19th-20th centuries.
One of the rooms of the museum’s modern building was once occupied by the Mama-Sibiryak family. The house itself belonged to the wife of a worker from the Cherepanova mine - the surveyor Berezovsky. It was here that the first version of the novel "Privalov millions" was written. The writer spent the money from his publication on the purchase of his own home.
The museum often hosts children's parties, puppet shows, contests and matinees. Once every two years, the exposure changes. The exhibits are performed by a doll master and collector Elena Lisina. Not a single exhibition is held without her participation.
House-Museum of F. M. Reshetnikov
In 1991, on October 1, it opened to visitors. City historians claim that it was here, in the house of the local postman, that the future writer was born.
This house of the Literary quarter in Yekaterinburg (photos are presented in the article) was built by the merchant Karnaukhov in the mid forties of the XIX century. The last owner is the postmaster’s wife. She handed over empty rooms to employees of the post station.
The exposition of the museum is unique. There is a strong inextricable link between the memorial part of the museum and the literary: the future writer was born in the family of the postman, his uncle who worked as a postal clerk was engaged in his education, and the heroes of the works of F.M. Reshetnikov are practically all drivers and postmen. Museum exhibitions, telling about the life of the writer's work, smoothly move on to the story of the postal service of the century before last, about its customs and traditions.
In this museum of the Literary quarter (Yekaterinburg), a horse carriage, a stable and a yamschitskaya are reproduced with historical accuracy. All household utensils, items necessary on the road and postal carts recreate the unique atmosphere of the Ural postal yard of the middle and end of the 19th century. This is the second museum in our country, which restored the life of a postal station of that period (the first near St. Petersburg).
House-Museum of D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak
He is located in a house purchased by the writer for his mother for a fee for the “Privalov Millions” and looks at the park of the Literary Quarter in Yekaterinburg. The whole family lived in it: the writer, his mother, sister and brothers.
The museum received its first visitors in 1946. And today the unique atmosphere of the house of Mama-Sibiryak is preserved there.
The tour begins with a writing laboratory. The story about the work of a prose writer echoes the life of his family and the relationships of close-minded people who have gone through the entire artistic world of the writer.
The exhibition halls of the museum combine stylized and genuine objects, and each of them provides an opportunity to better understand the writer’s personality, his creative ideas, thoughts, ideas and their embodiment in the created works.
Summer playgrounds
In the warm season, in the Literary quarter of Yekaterinburg, the summer stage begins its work. It is made in the style of the beginning of the last century: an open "pearl shell" and rows of comfortable benches with twisted armrests. Beautiful lanterns stylized as the exterior of the entire park complete the picture. Poetry marathons, concerts of classical music or children's groups take place on this stage on warm summer evenings.
But the Summer Veranda of the Literary Quarter (Yekaterinburg) hosted the World Street Cinema Festival this year. The guests came with their "seats" and sitting comfortably on the grass, watched the short films of young directors. The winner was chosen by the light of flashlights.
Every year on the City Day, the festival of the art project "Beaumond" and many other free events are held on the veranda.