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Blok's Memorial Flat

Categories / Science. Education/Museums

BLOK'S MEMORIAL FLAT situated at 57 Dekabristov Street, branch of the State Museum of St. Petersburg History. It was opened in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of the poet's death in M. E. Petrovsky's former apartment house built by architect M. F. Peterson in 1874-75 where A. A. Blok settled in 1912 to live the last nine years of his life. The exposition is based on Blok's personal belongings that were kept in the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences situated in Pushkin House and N. P. Ilyin's collection numbering about 7,000 items. In memorial flat No. 21 on the fourth floor, there is the poet's study, dining room, and bedroom, as well as a sitting room of his wife L. D. Blok, (nee Mendeleeva). Flat No. 23 on the second floor where Blok's mother lived houses a literary exposition covering the poet's creative development. The poet's death mask and L. A. Bruni's picture, Blok on His Death Bed, are exhibited here in the room where Blok died on 7 August 1921. The museum funds include V. N. Orlov's library and works by L. S. Bakst, N. S. Goncharova, M. A. Voloshin, and B. M. Kustodiev. The so-called Blok Scientific Conference is held annually.

References: Галанина Ю. Е. "... В доме сером и высоком у морских ворот Невы" // Тр. Гос. музея истории С.-Петербурга. СПб., 1999. Вып. 4. С. 7-62; Музеи Санкт-Петербурга и Ленинградской области: Справ. СПб., 2002. С. 54-55.

A. D. Margolis.

Persons

Bakst Leon (real name Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg)
Blok Alexander Alexandrovich
Blok G.P.
Bruni Lev Alexandrovich
Goncharova Natalia Sergeevna
Ilyin N.P.
Kustodiev Boris Mikhailovich
Margolis Alexander Davidovich
Peterson Mikhail Fedorovich
Petrovsky M.E.
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Voloshin Maximillian Alexandrovich

Addresses

Dekabristov St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 57

Bibliographies

Галанина Ю. Е. "... В доме сером и высоком у морских ворот Невы" // Тр. Гос. музея истории С.-Петербурга. СПб., 1999
Музеи Санкт-Петербурга и Ленинградской области: Справ. СПб., 2002

The subject Index

Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of

Chronograph

1980

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Museum Apartment of A.A.Blok. Poet's study.

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Dekabristov Street DEKABRISTOV STREET, called Ofitserskaya Street until 1918, running from Voznesensky Avenue to Pryazhka River Embankment. The street was laid in the 1740s across the Admiralty Board attendants" living-quarters

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Pryazhka, river PRYAZHKA, a river, flowing from the Moika River into Salnobuyansky Canal and on into the Neva River. The river is 1.32 kilometres long. Banny Bridge, Matisov Bridge and Berdov Bridge were span Pryazhka River

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