The State Literary Museum in Moscow is the largest museum of literature in Russia. It also belongs to one of the largest museums. During the period of his work, he became not only a colossal repository of works of literature, including manuscripts, valuable objects of art, collected from around the world. Now it is also a large modern center for the study of domestic and world literature and a multifunctional methodological center.
At present, in the collections of the Literary Museum of Moscow, one can say without exaggeration, the history of Russian book culture for more than five centuries is kept. Museum exhibits are distributed over 11 sites and tell about the development of literature from the 17th century to modern times.
Geographic location
The organization now has 11 branches. 1 branch, namely the Information Cultural Center "Museum of A. I. Solzhenitsyn" is located in the city of Kislovodsk. The remaining branches are located in the capital. Among them is the house of I. S. Ostroukhov in Trubnikovsky Lane.
History reference
The literary museum in Moscow begins its history in 1934. It was then, at the suggestion of VD Bonch-Bruevich, that the glorious history of this cultural center was laid. It was he who was elected to the post of first director of this organization.
Over the seven years of the museum's work, employees have collected over three million exhibits. Among them are folios, manuscripts, murals and other valuable objects. This was the period of the museum as such. It was at that time that a first-class team of professionals was assembled, completely immersed in the work process. They launched a stormy publishing and scientific work.
In 1941, most of the museum's collection was seized and sent for safekeeping to the NKVD archive. This event negatively affected the organization. However, the museum quickly recovered from this. Employees launched a vibrant collection of exhibits. Thanks to this, the museum pretty soon returned to its size and became the largest center for the storage and study of written values in our country.
April 2017 was marked for the organization by a change in the official name. Now she proudly bears an updated name: State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after Vladimir Dahl. This format and the idea of the museum now fully reveals the mission of the organization in all its glory and embodies the main idea embedded in it by the ideological organizer himself - V. D. Bonch-Bruevich.
Now the total number of museum exhibits has long exceeded half a million copies. Such an impressive amount allowed the creation of 11 thematic exhibitions.
History of the museum on Trubnikovsky Lane
The museum was built in the 20s of the XIX century. It was rebuilt several times in 1858, 1870, 1889, however, it has not lost its architectural features. Since 1890, the house passed into the possession of I. S. Ostroukhov. He was an artist, as well as a philanthropist and a fair collector. It was on his estate that he created a museum. The museum’s collection contained many paintings by prominent Russian and foreign painters. The pearl was a magnificent collection of icons.
In 1905 and 1914, the estate was rebuilt twice already due to the expansion of collections. Additional premises were completed for them. This is how the Home Museum, known throughout Moscow, arose on Trubnikovsky Lane.
After the Revolution, the museum, which until then was privately owned, was nationalized. His former owner received the post of permanent caretaker. The mansion itself and its collections were made a branch of the Tretyakov Gallery under the name "I. Ostroukhov Museum of Icon Painting and Painting". In the year 29 of the 20th century, a cut after the death of the keeper, the museum was closed, and its collections were transferred to large museums.
A little later, namely in 1979, the building was surrendered to the Literary Museum of Moscow. The building was completely restored and restored to its appearance, which he had before the beginning of the 20th century. The interior and interior layout of the premises were also recreated and fully correspond to that era. In 1992, the estate of Ostroukhov was awarded the title of the exhibition hall of the GLM. The museum department in charge of twentieth-century literature has changed its name, and now it is “The House of I. S. Ostroukhov in Trubniki”.
