the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye)

Description

The museum reserve at Mikhailovskoye; from 1934 under the Academy of Sciences, overseen by Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin on behalf of Pushkin House.

Kalaushins in the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye)2

Family works in the collection6

• Nanny’s Cottage1945Boris Matveyevich
• Rough plan of the Petrovskoye park with the German fortifications (16 May 1945)1945-05-16Boris MatveyevichПЗ-КП-250
• General plan for the Nanny’s Cottage display (1947)1947-05Matvey MatveyevichПЗ н/а, д. 40, л. 149
• Mikhailovskoye. View of the Estate. 19501950Boris MatveyevichПЗ-КП-415, Г-190
• Books by M.M. Kalaushin with his inscriptions in the Pushkin Reserve library1954; 1962Matvey Matveyevich
• Pushkin and His Time, issue 1 (editor-in-chief, 1962)1962Matvey Matveyevich

In the chronicle

1. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • From 1934 Matvey Matveyevich had been the curator of the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House. In late autumn 1944 he came to the liberated Mikhailovskoye,…
   • …No. 59 of the Institute of Russian Literature, dated 15 April 1945, S.S. Geychenko was appointed director of the Pushkin Reserve. In his own words, no one pressed for it harder than Matvey Matveyevich, and the…
   • Research archive of the Pushkin Reserve: PZ-KP-250 (plan of the Petrovskoye park, 1945); Pl/ch, d. 14 (plan of the central part of Mikhailovskoye,…

2. 10. Pushkin House

   • The Pushkin Reserve, declared in 1922, passed from hand to hand for ten years, and Nanny’s Cottage, as Kalaushin wrote, was…
   • ◇ family testimony. The family history records that S.S. Geychenko was “the director of the Pushkin Reserve at the village of Mikhailovskoye, to whom Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin handed over this post”…
   • Note on the roster. No document found so far calls Matvey Matveyevich director of the Pushkin Reserve. From 1934 he oversaw the Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House, after the liberation he looked after it in…
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   ¶ 32¶ 38¶ 39¶ 58¶ 59¶ 63-2

3. 11. The Artist

   • …of the Academy of Sciences — where he headed the Literary Museum and, on the institute’s behalf, oversaw the Pushkin Reserve at Mikhailovskoye; in 1949 he opened the All-Union Pushkin Museum in the Alexander Palace at Pushkin, and…
   • In April 1945 Semyon Geychenko became director of the Pushkin Reserve; no one, he recalled, had argued harder for sending him there than Matvey Matveyevich. On…
   • …Estate. 1950 is in the Reserve’s collection; in 2022 it became the cover of Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 89, “The Pushkin Reserve in the 20th Century”.
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   ¶ 41¶ 43-8¶ 46-2

4. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …appear to have shifted when the manuscript was retyped); and Matvey Matveyevich was not the director of the Pushkin Reserve — he supervised the Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House, it was on his recommendation that S.S. Geychenko…
   • …matter. Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin devoted his life to literary museums. He supervised the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House, and in 1945 recommended S.S. Geychenko as its director — “No one argued harder…
   • …“Our First Director” marked Matvey Matveyevich’s centenary, and in 2005 there was an exhibition at the Mikhailovskoye Museum Reserve. For it his grandson, N.G. Firtich, wrote a biographical essay, which also records…

5. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • Mikhail Pavlovich’s second cousin, Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin, looked after the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House from 1934; on his recommendation Semyon Geychenko was appointed director of the…

6. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • …the place to look for M.M. Kalaushin’s personal file (1931–1953); here too is the correspondence on the Pushkin Reserve, including a telegram of summer 1934 addressed “IRLI Kalaushin” about the collapse of the bell tower of the…
   • Research archive of the Pushkin Reserve — Order No. 59 of the Institute of Russian Literature of 15 April 1945 appointing S.S. Geychenko; the plan…
   • …Yaroslavl and Taganrog, the Leo Tolstoy Museum, the Cinema Museum, the Tsarskoye Selo Collection museum, the Pushkin Reserve, the All-Russian Pushkin Museum and others (more in the chapter “The Artist”).

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