Pskov

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Role in the family history

In April 1945 Geychenko travelled here with Boris Kalaushin; in the spring of 1949 M.M. Kalaushin spoke at the visiting Pushkin session.

People

Events

1. 12 April 1945

   A fifteen-year-old artist at Mikhailovskoye

   ◈ published sourcePskov

Institutions2

• the Pskov Museum ReserveMuseum
• the State Archive of Pskov Oblast (GAPO)Archive

Works and objects5

• A. Pushkin: a memo, 1837–19371937одthe Pskov Museum Reserve
• Photographic exhibition Pushkin and the Decembrists, 1825–19501951одthe Pskov Museum Reserve
• Pushkin Lived Here: Pushkin Places of the Soviet Union1963the Pskov Museum Reserve
• The Wonderful World of Water1963одthe Pskov Museum Reserve
• Drawing. Portrait of B. Kalaushin1986the Pskov Museum Reserve

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …a chatterbox or fibber, and the verb kalaushit, to beat. In Novgorod, Tver and Pskov governorates Dal recorded “KOLOUSHNIK… a gossip, tale-bearer, whisperer” and koloushnichat, to gossip…

2. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …“in the first days of April”. On the morning of 12 April Geychenko left Leningrad for Pskov together with L.N. Nazarova of Pushkin House and the fifteen-year-old Boris Kalaushin, the future artist,…

3. 10. Pushkin House

   • …deputy director, L.A. Plotkin, and “the head of the museum”, Kalaushin, thanked the secretary of the Pskov regional Party committee, L.M. Antyufeyev, for his help to the Reserve and for the promised working horse…
   • On 12 April 1945 Geychenko set out for Pskov with the guide L.N. Nazarova and Boris Kalaushin, “the future artist, who was travelling with me to sketch…
   • In the spring of 1949 the Institute of Literature held a Pushkin session in Pskov, at which “the head of the literary museum of the Institute of Literature, M.M. Kalaushin” gave a paper on…
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4. 11. The Artist

   • …sending him there than Matvey Matveyevich. On the morning of 12 April Geychenko set out for Pskov with L.N. Nazarova of Pushkin House and the fifteen-year-old Boris, who was travelling “to sketch the ruined…
   • …illustrated or designed by him are also held in museums on Sakhalin, in the Krasnoyarsk region, in Moscow, Pskov and Pushkin. Museums also keep things about the man himself: a caricature by N.E. Muratov,…
   • ODNILS GAPO (Pskov): f. 1219, op. 1, d. 352 — papers on the Reserve’s work in 1946.

5. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • …to B.M. Kalaushin (PZ-KP-250). ODNILS GAPO (Pskov), f. 1219, op. 1, d. 352 — correspondence of Pushkin House and the Reserve with the regional Party…

Nearby

• Mikhailovskoye91 km
• Izvara184 km
• Novgorod189 km
• Gatchina221 km
• Krasnoye Selo236 km