The Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House includes interesting exhibits and a theater. The whole complex is a rather interesting place where you can get a lot of interesting historical, literary knowledge and data on the life of the poetess.
A place where legends come to life
The exhibits are available in small halls. The Museum of Anna Akhmatova is a venue for interesting chamber-type performances. The main theme is the coverage of the life of the "mistress" of the house and other prominent figures of literature of the 20th century.
Collectives are inviting here to show their performances, whose experiments do not tire of delighting a curious audience. The most important thing to look at here is the beautiful performances that the whole family can enjoy. Stories taken from world classics are taken as plots.
The Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fontanny is a place where the heroes of Pushkin, Saint Exupery, Lindgren, Janson, Kozlov can come to life in front of you. If you bring your child to watch such a scene, he will learn a lot of new things about such elevated impulses as friendship, love and loyalty.
Getting into a fairy tale
The actors work in such a way that after the finale there are very vivid impressions. Extremely exciting is the game, as well as the use of dolls and shadows, animated characters. The administration, thanks to which the museum of Anna Akhmatova operates, is trying to take into account all the wishes and feedback of visitors. It’s better to come a little ahead of time, because the museum’s workshop is also available for viewing at this time, as well as all kinds of interesting literary games. The performances that are shown here have repeatedly received awards at festivals held among European theaters.
The Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, in addition, is the founder of its own event of this kind called the Golden Chain. Having come to this spectacle as a spectator, you will get acquainted with a number of wonderful productions that managed to gain popularity among theater-goers.
The life of a poetess
This is not only a wonderful theater, but also a memorial apartment, every detail in which is saturated with a special atmosphere. So, you can personally come into contact with the situation in which a woman endowed with a talent for writing has managed to earnestly fall in love with every true connoisseur of literature.
You can go to the museum of Anna Akhmatova by the stairs, suitable at the same time for the interior of the palace and the house of the middle of the last century. To your attention is a hallway, whose appearance can be called typical for the dwellings of the intelligentsia of Leningrad. There is a tiled stove, a bag, a clothes hanger and an umbrella stand. Then you can go into the corridor and into the kitchen.
According to the plan of the designer, the servants were to live here, since this apartment was built for Countess Sheremeteva. When time was replaced by the Soviet period, it became the usual habitat of the inhabitants. Starting from the 30s of the 20th century, these premises were used on a communal basis. It was here that once Anna Akhmatova carried out her domestic affairs. The house museum has retained its former setting. In the pink dining room, before, the most interesting events of the residents' life were boiling, because for the apartment this room was the center. Local residents could be found playing a game of chess or listening to tunes on a gramophone, organizing dinner parties for guests.
Heart of the house
Of course, everyone who enters the museum of Anna Akhmatova wants to visit the room of a brilliant woman, and such an opportunity is really provided. Once here, you can come across a variety of memories that remained with her contemporaries.
It is noteworthy that some of them described this room as incredibly miserable and poor, while others described it as a haven of wonderful light. Although the matter here is not at all in the interior, but in the owner herself. Of course, you can’t call the atmosphere chic, but still there are several beautiful and interesting things that seem to have stopped somewhere in the distant past, and remained motionless in their places.
The legacy of a creative person
Many are drawn to come to this museum. Anna Akhmatova (The Fountain House, by the way, was her favorite residence) still inspires people with her poems. Therefore, they want to know about the life of the poetess. An interesting place is the exposition located here dedicated to the writings of this woman. She is called the White Hall for her light design style.
An analogy is drawn with the actions described in The Poem Without a Hero. Thus, the guest will fall into a completely different reality. Light walls look like blank sheets of paper on which a woman wrote her incredible works.
Neighbors
But there are exhibits associated not only with this wonderful poetess. The whole exposition depicts an office in which Joseph Brodsky worked. This part of the museum began to function in 2005. It contains things collected in South Headley and transferred by his wife to the historical complex.
It was in this locality that a literary figure worked in the 1980s. Coming here, you seem to hear the poet's strong voice, his soul lives in the things that he once used. The future Nobel laureate returned to his homeland, which was reflected in the formation of the poet's personality. You seem to be transported to the moment when he stood on the threshold of glory and triumph.
In addition, Lev Gumilyov “settled” here, whose first separate dwelling was an apartment on ul. Kolomenskoye. Most of the time before that he had to find himself not very comfortable housing, he also spent 13 years in camps and prisons. So communal apartments were by no means the worst home. However, going into this part of the museum, you can get acquainted with the atmosphere in which no one oppressed him, so that an outstanding literary figure could arrange everything here according to his liking.
Museum staff are working on a database containing information about the exhibits. A unique catalog is created, which contains the most interesting items included in the exhibition. So the list of things presented in the museum will be available online. However, this is not a reason to refuse a personal visit, because this is a great way to feel the local atmosphere and touch the life of outstanding creators of the last century.