Virtual tour of the Yulian Semyonov House-Museum available on the Presidential Library’s portal

The Museum of the author of novels about the famous scout Isaev - Stirlitz, screenwriter of popular Soviet films, journalist and public figure Julian Semenov can be visited remotely thanks to a virtual tour presented on the Presidential Library’s portal.

The Yulian Semyonov House-Museum, located in the village of Oliva (Upper Mukhalatka) in Crimea, was opened in 2000. Here the writer lived and worked until 1989, created such works as “Ordered to Survive”, “Expansion”, “Despair”, “Versions”, “Reporter” and many others, and also carried out organizational work to create the first non-state newspaper in the USSR “Top Secret” (1989).

The House-Museum has preserved the lifetime atmosphere of the study and library of Yulian Semyonov, which reflected his life and career. The exposition includes manuscripts, documents, photographs, the writer’s correspondence with Soviet and foreign colleagues (Graham Green, Georges Simenon, Ernest Hemingway), filmmakers (Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vyacheslav Tikhonov), cultural figures of the Russian foreign countries (Serge Shagal Lifar Fedor Chaliapin).

Thanks to the virtual tour, one can see the original works of artists Ilya Glazunov and Mikhail Shemyakin, explore documents related to the search and return of art values ​​that were stolen by German troops during the Great Patriotic War, as well as study materials relating to the filming of feature films “17 Moments of Spring”, “TASS is authorized to declare...”, “Confrontation”, “Petrovka, 38”.

Virtual tours are an actively developing area of ​​activity of the Presidential Library. The institution’s portal provides an opportunity to remotely visit not only Yulian Semyonov House-Museum, but also visit the legendary cruiser Aurora, the State Memorial Museum of  the Defence and Siege of Leningrad, the Kobona: Road of Life museum, And Muses Were Not Silent...

Visitors to the Presidential Library’s portal from anywhere in the world can have a tour around the historic building of the Synod, which today houses a modern multifunctional cultural and educational center, visit the Constitution Hall with the permanent exposition spotlighting the main documents of the Russian Federation. 

Today more than ten temporary expositions in the Presidential Library are also available for remote visits. The institution’s portal provides virtual tours of the exhibitions Weapons Designer and Assault Rifle: the path of the great master. Marking the 100th anniversary of Mikhail Kalashnikov”, “Monuments of book culture: from print to digital”, “Journey from Petrograd to Moscow. 1918: marking the 100th anniversary of the relocation of the Soviet government and the capital to Moscow”, "An Artist against the Fuhrer: Fascism in the Caricatures of Boris Yefimov. Marking the 80th anniversary of the outreak of World War II”, “The Saving Sword of the Revolution”: the Chekist in life, cinema and literature” and others. “Keeping Orthodox faith: the history of church museums. Marking the 1030th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’”, “More than a game: Marking FIFA World Cup in Russia” and others.