It is impossible to visit Crimea and not visit the Alexander Greene Literary and Memorial Museum in Feodosia. The writer, who presented us with a gentle Assol and a faithful captain Gray, spent the rest of his life in comfortable Theodosia on the seashore.
Alexander Green and Theodosius
In 1924, Alexander Green's family moved from St. Petersburg to a small Crimean town. Away from revolutions, loud crowds, noise and closer to the sea and silence. Having bought a small house in Feodosia, Green finds on Crimean land what he was looking for - peace.
Researchers believe that in the last years of his life spent in Feodosia, Green was truly happy. A house near the sea has become a place of constant inspiration. Green writes a lot, always goes to the sea every day, which he passionately loved all his life. The writer is captivated by the gentle charm of ancient Theodosius, its surroundings and picturesque streets.
It was in Feodosia that "Running on the Waves", "Golden Chain" and other works were written.
In 1930, the writer’s health condition worsened, the doctor advised him to move to the neighboring town - Old Crimea, where 2 years later Green died.
Fidelity and love
The history of the creation of the literary and memorial museum of Alexander Green is a story of great love and fidelity.
Alexander Grin’s wife, Nina Nikolaevna, who was unjustly sentenced to 10 years and returned from prison, began to seek to make Green’s house his monument, his museum. She wanted the memory of a dreamer not to disappear even in the years of harsh reality. First, she managed to get her home back in Old Crimea, where Alexander Green spent the last two years of his life. It was there that the first exposition was located.
Museum history
The idea to create a museum space dedicated to a poet writer who lived for many years on Crimean soil has been around for a long time, but began to come true only in 1966, when the name Green was returned to Soviet literature. Authorities decide to organize a museum.
Items of the future exhibition are beginning to be collected, researchers of Green's creativity across the country are joining the process.
For the decorative embodiment of the museum space, the artist Savva Brodsky is invited, who shortly before that prepared amazing illustrations for the collection of works by Green.
Brodsky managed to do what fans of the green talent wanted to see.
He created a non-traditional museum of an academic nature, with display cases and objects behind glass. He invented and embodied the Alexander Greene Literary and Memorial Museum as a romantic Dream, a fantasy Greenland.
So in 1970, a museum ship appeared on the seashore in Feodosia, carrying away the Green heroes into the world on all sails.
Over time, the museum grew into a whole block, and now guests get inside, walking along an old street, paved with cobblestones, past lamps, anchors and cable bays.
The panel “Brigantine”, which has been adorning the museum wall since 1991, has become a real decoration of the resort city.
Inside the museum
According to the lyrical mood of the entire museum, its interior decoration and exhibition displays are unusually framed.
The Alexander Greene Literary and Memorial Museum (Theodosius) is like a ship, in full sail, setting off for an impossible fantasy land. Therefore, the halls of the museum have such unusual names that are associated with the sea
- Rostral room.
- Clipper cabin.
- Hold.
- Cabin of wanderings.
- Ship library.
From the first steps on the plank floor of the museum the feeling that you are on board an old ship does not leave. From the walls sheathed with tarred boards and decorated with suspended ropes, drawings, photographs, maps are viewed, huge unusual shells, antique appliances are on the tables, models of sailing ships and lanterns hang from the ceiling.
The museum space opens with a huge panel, which depicts a three-dimensional map of Greenland. The map occupies the ceiling and walls. Islands and bays, cities and straits - each reader will find names familiar from childhood on this map. The wind rose indicates the right path.
In the hall, called the Cabin of Wanderings, the youth of Alexander Greene, his passionate dreams of the sea, life in a provincial city and attempts to find himself, arise before his eyes.
Many sailboats seem to float under the ceiling of the hall Clipper cabin, and each of them is a green fantasy. Clipper "Aurora", galliot "Secret" and other ships are waiting for a tailwind. Photos, drawings, books and documents will tell you how the Green writer appeared, and how his work began.
The bow of the sailboat - the roster - adorns the next hall of the museum and escorts guests to the wandering cabin hall. This is the only room where memorial things are collected: the oracle table at which Green worked, an armchair and a couch for relaxation, a chest where the writer kept the manuscripts ...
In the Hold from the darkness stands the face of the writer in the portrait of S. Brodsky, and it seems as though Green still lives in the house, as always lives on the pages of his books.
The amazing and unusual museum of the romance of Alexander Green leaves no one indifferent.
Green's Museum in the life of the city
Already about 17 thousand exhibits have been collected, and scientific work is ongoing. For citizens, lectures and a literary and musical lounge are held. For scientists, the Green Readings conference. For creative natures - the festival "Meetings in Zurbagan" and photo-airplanes.
In the small hall constantly hosts exhibitions of contemporary artists.
Cost of visit
For inspection of the literary and memorial museum of Alexander Green, a fee of:
- schoolchildren and students - 60 p .;
- retirees - 75 p.;
- adults without benefits - 150 p.
Visiting exhibitions is paid separately and is 30 p. for schoolchildren and senior citizens and 60 p. for adults.
You can purchase a common ticket to the museum and the exhibition:
- schoolchildren, students - 75 p .;
- retirees - 90 p.;
- adults 200 r.
The museum provides fascinating interactive tours on various topics, for adults and children. During such excursions they will talk about Green’s attitude to the war, about his beloved and women who love him, they will reveal the secrets of the house. Children make a quest trip around Greenland.
How the A. Green Museum Works
The museum is open every day except Monday summer and Monday-Tuesday winter. The museum opens its doors at 9 o’clock and closes at 17 o’clock. From 13 to 14 in the museum work break.
The Alexander Grin Literary and Memorial Museum, whose address is Galeinaya Street, 10, is located in the city center near the embankment.
Find the road to Greenland
Probably every Crimean has known where the Crimean literary and memorial museum is from his childhood.
You can get to Feodosia by any bus going to Simferopol. From the bus station you must use minibuses number 2 or 4 (106), drive 7 stops and get off on Galerennaya street near the museum.
Going by car, you must remember that Gallery is a pedestrian street.