the People’s Museum “And the Muses Were Not Silent…”

Description

A school museum in St Petersburg devoted to culture in besieged Leningrad.

Family works in the collection2

• Home-made booklets of the Siege and the evacuation (1941–1942)1941–1942Boris Matveyevich
• Boris Kalaushin’s home-made booklets from the Siege and the evacuation (copies)1941–1942Boris Matveyevich

In the chronicle

1. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …and Children”, and the date MCMXLI. Copies of the booklets have been given to the People’s Museum “And the Muses Were Not Silent…” in St Petersburg.
   • People’s Museum “And the Muses Were Not Silent…”, St Petersburg: copies of Boris Kalaushin’s Siege booklets; see also O.G. Prutt, “Bukovki i bukvitsy Borisa…

2. 11. The Artist

   • Copies of Boris’s home-made booklets from the Siege and the evacuation were given by his sister to the People’s Museum “And the Muses Were Not Silent…” at St Petersburg School No. 235; △ the originals appear to remain in the family.
   • People’s Museum “And the Muses Were Not Silent…” (School No. 235, St Petersburg) — copies of the Siege booklets; O.G. Prutt’s article “Bukovki i bukvitsy…