The Chukovsky House Museum has hospitably welcomed its visitors for more than a dozen years. During his lifetime, the poet complained that readers were not familiar with all the facets of his work. The expositions presented in the museum make up for the lack of information about the life and creative activity of the writer that has existed for many years. Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky appears before visitors not only as a children's poet, but also as a publicist, literary critic, serious critic, translator, journalist, and public figure.
Cottage Address
The house-museum of Korney Chukovsky is located in the villa community of Peredelkino. This place in the Moscow region is well known not only to residents of the capital, but also to any citizen who cherishes the country's literary heritage.
It was in this village that many famous Soviet writers lived and worked, whose work falls on the period from 1930 to 1990. Not surprising is the fact that Peredelkino is often called writer's dachas.
One of the houses of the cottage village with his family was occupied by Korney Ivanovich. Subsequently, the Chukovsky House Museum was organized here. The location of the famous summer cottage today is known to many. In the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, in the village of Peredelkino, on Serafimovich Street, at number 3, we are glad to see guests today.
What is the interior of the house talking about
Creating the Chukovsky house-museum, his employees tried to make sure that the writer's summer house preserved the warmth with which it was always filled during the life of Korney Ivanovich.
For this purpose, the museum has kept many of the writer's personal belongings, furniture, and interior items. Books on the shelves, paintings and graphics on the walls, other objects in the interior of the apartment indicate the connection of the owner of the cottage with many talented contemporaries.
A reminder of true friendship and today stores the Chukovsky house-museum. Ilya Repin, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Kuprin, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and many other famous representatives of the Russian intelligentsia were among the writer’s acquaintances and friends.
Poet's attitude to children
The house-museum of K.I. Chukovsky holds many things, the description of which can be found in works for children - a black dial telephone, a jug for water, a model of a miracle tree. Children who came to visit the writer recognized these subjects, which always caused them indescribable delight. And the writer lovingly kept things that became so famous thanks to his works, most of which have been revered by babies for many decades.
The attitude of Chukovsky to the younger generation was also special. The writer always gladly received little guests in his house. In the last years of his life, such meetings became regular. Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky liked to talk with children, he arranged games with them, read aloud his works. On the territory of the dacha there was a place where they made a fire and arranged all kinds of fun around it, had intimate conversations, or simply dreamed. Children from all over the village gathered for such events.
The Korney Chukovsky House-Museum in Peredelkino has preserved the tradition of holding "bonfires" to this day. This event is held in the museum every year in autumn and spring, and children from all over the country come to it.
Writer's Family
The Chukovsky House Museum in Peredelkino carefully stores materials relating not only to the life and work of the poet himself, but also to his family. And she was big and very friendly. Maria Borisovna Chukovskaya is a faithful companion of the writer. Korney Ivanovich was very upset by the death of his wife, with whom they lived together for 52 years.
The two oldest children of the writer followed in the footsteps of his father and were also associated with literary activity. The house-museum of K. I. Chukovsky in many respects should be obliged to the daughter of the writer - Lydia Korneevna. Thanks to her, the atmosphere that existed during the life of his father was recreated here. She received the first visitors to the museum. She had to show firmness and perseverance when the cottage was threatened with closure.
Boris, the youngest son of the writer, died during the war with the Nazi invaders, and his daughter Maria died in childhood. The loss of children Chukovsky seriously worried.
Later, the family was replenished with grandchildren and great-grandchildren, whom Korney Ivanovich and his wife gladly received at their place. The Chukovsky house, as already mentioned, was always full of children.
The democratic views of the writer
It is a well-known fact that Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was an adherent of democratic views, even at a time when they were not welcomed by the government of the country, or by a political party. This was the reason for strained relations with colleagues.
The confrontation was so serious that shortly before his death, Chukovsky made a list of the names of writers who should not have been present at his funeral.
But the house in Peredelkino has always been open to people with progressive views. For example, Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn lived for a long time at the Chukovskys in the country. Here he was allocated an office where the writer worked. Museum expositions tell about this interesting fact.
House Museum of Chukovsky. Excursions and expositions
Since 1994, the dacha where Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky lived, received the status of a branch of the State Literary Museum. In 1996, restoration work was completed here. Since then, the writer’s house regularly receives visitors.
Museum staff provide guests with the opportunity to choose thematic tours, lectures and other events. They developed special programs for schoolchildren, students, young children and their parents. The materials of lectures and museum expositions acquaint visitors with the writer's work and his attitude to literature. During the excursions, you can learn about the history of creating popular works of Chukovsky, hear many instructive stories from the life of the writer, and gain new knowledge about Russian literature.
