Maximilian Voloshin's legacy displayed at the Presidential Library’s virtual exhibition

The Presidential Library provides a virtual tour of the exhibition "Cimmeria by Maximilian Voloshin. 1920".

The idea of ​​creating this exposition appeared in the summer of 2019, during a visit by the delegation of the Presidential Library to the Crimean peninsula. In November 2019, within the framework of the St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, the Presidential Library and the Historical, Cultural, Memorial Museum-Reserve "Cimmeria by M. A. Voloshin" signed a cooperation agreement. In 2020, despite the difficult epidemiological conditions, the joint project was successfully implemented.

The subject of the exhibition has become the life and career of Maximilian Voloshin in the difficult post-revolutionary times. Most of the artworks and documents date back to 1920, the year of the end of the Civil War in the Crimea and the exodus from the Crimea of ​​the Russian Army and the Black Sea Fleet.

The events of 1917, stirring up Russia, also affected Maximilian Voloshin. Then his poetic creativity sounded in a new way, the talent of a publicist and lecturer was revealed. During the Civil War in Crimea, the poet tried to protect human lives and cultural values. Voloshin became an employee of the Feodosia section of the Crimean department for the protection of monuments of art and antiquity and a member of the All-Russian Union of Art Workers, advocated the creation of a People's University in the region. It was thanks to him that a number of monuments of the peninsula were preserved. At the end of his life, Voloshin bequeathed his house to the Union of Writers of the USSR, to create the first state holiday home for art workers (House of the Poet).

The interactive exposition on the Presidential Library’s portal presents paintings, photographs and archival documents, books and personal belongings of the writer from the collection of the M. A. Voloshin House-Museum (House of the Poet) in Koktebel, some of them were exhibited for the first time in St. Petersburg. For example, one of the artist's most famous works is the painting "Koktebel" (the second name is "Heavenly Well"), which the author himself placed in the center of the Workshop - the focus of the Poet's House, and which never left the walls of the museum.

Virtual projects are an actively developing area of the Presidential Library's activity, thanks to which the electronic repository, along with paper, photo, audio and video materials, is added with exhibits from the exhibitions and items from museum collections.

Today more than fourty virtual tours and excursions are available for remote visits. They are now available on the Presidential Library’s portal in the Exhibitions section at the link  https://www.prlib.ru/about_exhibition.