2015 — Year of Literature in Russia: The "Reading Russia" exhibition project in Moscow

The State Literature Museum in the exposition halls of the State Pushkin Museum (Moscow) on June 6, 2015, presents the “Reading Russia” interactive exhibition project about the reading measurement in Russian literature, dedicated to the Year of Literature in Russia.

The main character of the exhibition is the Reading Man (homo legens). In the focus of the exhibition are the historical images of reading, a literature, the ways of converting from a writer to a reader, the types and methods of reading, the reader fortune of literary works in the era of uncensored literature, reader ways of communication with the text, reading as a cultural practice of everyday life of people of different periods, the patterns of shaping of reader canon of literature.

In the Year of Literature it is principally important in the State Literary Museum to show its collections of unique and rare materials on the history of reading culture.

Visitors will see more than 700 exhibits. Among them are the books of XVI-XX centuries, popular prints and mass publications, book graphics, visual materials, rare cartoon illustrations, books with readers' history (marginal notes, the blue pencil of the censor), original photos with images of the Reading Man, manuscripts (reader's diaries, albums, writers notes to reader), as well rare posters.

The "Reading Russia" exhibition is held within the framework of large-scale annual festival of the State Literary Museum titled "The Literary Seasons." It is planned to conduct master classes for adults and children, as well as the meetings with poets and writers, a series of lectures and seminars for the professional community and the general audience.