History of Saint-Petersburg: Exhibition “Alexander Pushkin. War. Blockade”, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade

February 3, 2014 at the National Pushkin Museum (St. Petersburg) opens the exhibition "Alexander Pushkin. War. Blockade", dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade.

The project, representing material from the National Pushkin Museum, the State Russian Museum, the State Museum of the Blockade of Leningrad, was created as a tribute to the artists - the blockade and war veterans. First in the walls of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum is attempted to present the work of artists of a generation. It is symbolic that the exhibition opens in the exposition hall space on the Moika 12, on the eve of Memorial Day of Pushkin.

The new exhibition consists of works devoted to the life and works of Pushkin. The authors of these works lived and fought and died in the besieged Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War. The desire of artists to live and work, irrepressible of hunger and bombings, helps to create, back after being injured in a profession, to complete their education at the Academy of Arts and begin the work on the theme of Pushkin after the war.

The exhibition included unique book publications output during the Great Patriotic War: pocket book of poetry by the front-line, the works of Alexander S. Pushkin and Mikhail Y. Lermontov. A special feeling is caused by books published in the besieged Leningrad.

The exhibition is accompanied by excerpts from the blockade and front-line diaries, memoirs. The blockade chronicle from the State Russian Museum, presented in multimedia format, complements iconic objects of the besieged life, postcards, and issues of campaign posters "Fighting Pencil" from the State Memorial Museum of the Blockade of Leningrad.