1939

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Chronicle of three centuries/1926 - 1950
This year the palace-museums of Pushkin Town were visited by 1,790,000 people; the budget of the museum was Rb 2 million.

Evening excursions with the electric light were organised in the Alexander Palace on the initiative of its director A.M. Kuchumov. Main halls of the palace welcomed guests with crystal chandeliers lights and flashes of lamps placed in flower decoration. The Maple Lounge, where was the pink highlight of cornices, was the most unusual.

The Puskin Town Executive Committee Comission for Pushkin's places protection, headed by the writer V.Ya. Shishkov, introduced the celebration of the poet's birthday near the monument in the Lyceum Garden on 6 June. This tradition survives today.

N.A. Trofimova and Ye.N. Matveyeva, research workers of the Alexander Palace, went out to the front area of battles with "White Finns" for collecting exhibits of the exhibition "The Defence of Petrograd - Leningrad", which was being in the palace untill the occupation of 1941. Kuchumov Anatoly Mikhailovich
Matveyeva, E.N.
Shishkov Alexander Semenovich
Trofimova, N.A.
Alexander Palace (Pushkin)