The «KP» №3 for 2011 was about Pushkin's monuments in our city. Asked where's the last of them came right answers, at 9 Kudryavska street near the Pushkin museum. Our regular reader, the former head of the department of NTB method Vyacheslav Dzyhun indagated it in details.
Pushkin Museum
More than two decades ago in Kiev has another cultural center - Pushkin Museum. Its foundation was collection of Jacob Berdichevsky, which was donated to the city. Placed the museum in a historic building of XIX century at 9 Kudryavska.
Among the most valuable exhibits - books signed by the author's friends and contemporaries of Pushkin. The pride of the museum is a lifetime editions of the poet's works, including some chapters of the novel "Eugene Onegin". It should be noted that the novel published in parts (they were called "notebooks", measuring about 10 x 15 cm) for seven years until March 1833 the world did not see the full text (this edition also takes its pride of place in the exhibition). In the museum are the first edition of "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Southern poems," "Bakhchisarai fountain", "Prisoner of kozak". Statue of the poet in the full-length, made by sculptor O.Terebenyevym in 1837 attracts attention of visitors. An interesting exhibit is the journal "Sowremenik", wich Pushkin published. The front page is permit censorship Krylov. A valuable exhibit is the collection book of Napoleon, was presented for the great general by his surgeon Sabatier. It is known that Pushkin twice came to Kyiv. For the first time, in 1820, he spent 1-2 days in city, when went to Ekaterinoslav from St. Petersburg with instructions to general I.Inzova. The second time was here at the beginning of 1821-th. He received permission to visit Kamenka, when he served in Chisinaut - the estate of David - his friends, who were relatives of General Rajewski. In late January, the whole company came to Kyiv, where the poet spent about two weeks. Sometimes in literature one can mention alleged, the poet visited here again in late 1822, but there's no documentary evidence.
Few people know that the poem "Ruslan and Ludmila" is devoted to Kyiv. "On seashore far a green oak towers... - a garden of Kyiv says Ludmila, she was the daughter of knyaz Vladimir the Red Sun and Ruslan fought with pechenihy under the walls of our capital," - said in the Pushkin museum.
The continuation of story
But the story had continued. Historian and researcher of ancient Kiev M.B.Kalnitsky (incidentally, a graduate of KPI) on the site "Interesting Kyiv", which reprinted the article with appendix about two Pushkins (places connected with the perpetuation of the Russian poet).
One of them is decorated in good company building the National Library of Ukraine for Children (photo 1), st. Bauman, 60 (October 2003 - State library of Ukraine for children). Now it is the children's library of Ukraine (chl.kiev.ua). It is a national treasure room of children's books and scientific, bibliographic, information, consultation center for 1200 specialized children's libraries, around 22 thousand schools and nearly 18,000 rural libraries serving children. Founded in 1967, in 1978 moved to a new building, built on a special project, which provided gaming, concert space, etc., and interior decoration exceeded both puppet theater and shop "Kazka". The second adorns the lobby of the Central District Public Library. Pushkin (pr. Obolonskiy, 16). Library. Pushkin was opened in 1947 on the basis of the city reading room, which was established in 1901 in one of the oldest settlements in Kyiv - Podil. In 1977, whereas new administrative district was formed, library was reorganized into the Central district library n.a. O. S. Pushkin - Minsk district (Kyiv). According to the agreement between the KSCA and the Moscow government to establish cultural ties, the Pushkin library is the base library of Russian literature in Kiev since 2000 year .