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Dear participants,

We introduce you 2015 – YEAR OF LITERATURE IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION!

 

This year while visiting St.Petersburg, Russia you have a unique opportunity to become acquainted closely with the great russian literature!

Official web-site of Year of Literature

 

The official website, www.godliteraturi.ru, with descriptions of various projects and events, is online since January 2015.

Russia is planning to hold interesting, large-scale events, such as:

  • the Literary Eurasia Writers' Forum
  • the Literary Map of Russia project
  • the 2015 Biblionight
  • the Books in the Hospitals and Summer with a Book projects
  • the Worldwide Book Day pilot project and many others 

House-museums of famous russian writers in St. Petersburg

 

Numerous memorial museums of famous russian authors are situated in St.Petersburg. 
A historic house museum is a house that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home.

F.M.Dostoevsky Literary-Memorial Museum

Working hours: Tuesday, Thursday-Sunday: from 11.00 to 18.00, ticket-office closed at 17.30
Wednesday: from 13.00 until 20.00, ticket-office closed at 19.30
Closed: on Monday and official holidays
Web-site: http://eng.md.spb.ru/

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
Fedor Dostoevsky

"Нет ничего в мире труднее прямодушия и нет ничего легче лести."
Федор Михайлович Достоевский

The Pushkin Apartment Museum

Working hours: Daily except Tuesday and the last Friday of each month, 10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (the booking-office closes at 5:00 p.m.).
Web-site: http://www.museumpushkin.ru/eng/

"The wondrous moment of our meeting... 
Still I remember you appear 
Before me like a vision fleeting, 
A beauty's angel pure and clear."

Alexander Pushkin
 "Я помню чудное мгновенье:
Передо мной явилась ты,
Как мимолетное виденье,
Как гений чистой красоты."

Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

 

The Gavrila Derzhavin Estate Museum

Working hours: Daily except Tuesday and the last Friday of each month, 10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (the booking-office closes at 5:00 p.m.); on Thursday – 12:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (the booking-office closes at 7:00 p.m.). 
Web-site: http://www.museumpushkin.ru/eng/estate-museum-derzhavin.html

"The current of Time's river
Will carry off all human deeds
And sink into oblivion
All peoples, kingdoms and their kings."

Gavrila Derzhavin		 "Река времён в своём стремленьи
Уносит все дела людей
И топит в пропасти забвенья
Народы, царства и царей."

Гаврила Романович Державин

The Nekrasov Apartment Museum

Working hours: Daily except Monday, Tuesday and the last Friday of each month, 10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (the booking-office closes at 5:00 p.m.).
Web-site: http://www.museumpushkin.ru/eng/apartment-museum-nekrasov.html

"You do not have to be a poet, 
but you are obliged to be a citizen."

Nikolay Nekrasov		 "Поэтом можешь ты не быть,
Но гражданином быть обязан."

Николай Владимирович Некрасов

The Anna Akhmatova Museum at The Fountain House

Working hours: Daily except Monday, Tuesday and the last Friday of each month, 10:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (the booking-office closes at 5:00 p.m.).
Web-site: http://en.akhmatova.spb.ru/start.56.html

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson,
And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”

Anna Akhmatova		 Услышишь гром и вспомнишь обо мне,
Подумаешь: она грозы желала…
Полоска неба будет твёрдо-алой,
А сердце будет как тогда – в огне.

Анна Андреевна Ахматова

The Nabokov Museum

Working hours: from 11 to 18. Saturday, Sunday – from 12 to 17. Closed Monday and on national holidays.
Web-site: http://www.nabokovmuseum.ru/En/index.htm

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” 
Vladimir Nabokov

"Это была любовь с первого взгляда, с последнего взгляда, с извечного взгляда."
Владимир Владимирович Набоков

A. Blok Apartment Museum

Working hours: from 11 to 18. Tuesday – from 11 to 17. Closed  on Thursday.
Web-site: www.russianmuseums.info/M138

"...So they march with sovereign tread…
Behind them limps the hungry dog,
and wrapped in wild snow at their head
carrying a blood-red flag
soft-footed where the blizzard swirls,
invulnerable where bullets crossed –
crowned with a crown of
snowflake pearls,
a flowery diadem of frost,
ahead of them goes Jesus Christ."

Alexander Block

 "...Так идут державным шагом —
Позади — голодный пёс.
Впереди — с кровавым флагом,
    И за вьюгой неведим,
    И от пули невредим,
Нежной поступью надвьюжной,
Снежной россыпью жемчужной,
    В белом венчике из роз —
    Впереди — Исус Христос."

Александр Александрович Блок

Lev Gumilev Apartment Museum

Working hours: from 11 to 18. Closed  on Monday.
Web-site: http://www.akhmatova.spb.ru/muzey-lva-nikolaevicha-gumileva.77.html