Institution · Museum
the All-Russian Pushkin Museum
Всероссийский музей А.С. ПушкинаAll-Russian Pushkin Museum · All-Union Pushkin Museum
Description
The museum in Leningrad – St Petersburg (All-Union from 1953); Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin was its first director.
Kalaushins in the All-Russian Pushkin Museum
| Person | Rank, post | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin · second cousin three times removed | first director | 1953–1965 | ◈ published source S150 S004 |
Family works in the collection5
- M.M. Kalaushin’s medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War”1945–1946
- Portrait of M.M. Kalaushin. Caricature1950Н 1905 / инв. Р-Н-1324
- Works in the exhibition Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to Abstraction (2015)1950–1970-еBoris Matveyevich
- Album Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov: Life and Work (compiled by M.M. Kalaushin)1955Matvey MatveyevichН 2761 / инв. РК-1582 (Всероссийский музей А.С. Пушкина); ЛМФД ГИК-8242 / инв. ОФ-4741 (Литературно-мемориальный музей Ф.М. Достоевского); БГЛМ КП 5353 (Белгородский государственный литературный музей)
- Letters to M.M. Kalaushin, director of the Pushkin Museum (1955–1963)1955–196316091; 16086; 16170 / инв. 1.6.26; 19512; 19661; 19738
In the chronicle
- …in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo in the jubilee year of 1949, and became the first director of the All-Union Pushkin Museum. His name appears in official acts and minutes, in the letters and memoirs of Pushkin scholars — and in the…
- N.I. Granovskaya, later chief curator of the All-Union Pushkin Museum, remembered that Kalaushin went to the Reserve when “there was no house, there were ashes”, and a pig farm…
- …Matveyevich was awarded the Medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”; it was shown at the All-Russian Pushkin Museum’s 2010 exhibition Tikhy podvig (“A Quiet Feat”).
- …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 when in 1953 the museum was separated from Pushkin House as an…
- …In 1996, on his initiative, the Apollon gallery opened at 13 Millionnaya Street and ran until early 2000 (the All-Russian Pushkin Museum dates his initiative to 1992); the city encyclopedia counts eight solo and ten group exhibitions,…
- …(November 2008). From 17 September to 17 October 2015 the Green Hall of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum on the Moika, 12, showed Boris Kalaushin. From the Academy to Abstraction. Graphic Art and Painting of the…
- …that S.S. Geychenko became its director in 1945, and on 10 June 1949 Matvey Matveyevich opened the All-Union Pushkin Museum in the Alexander Palace…
- …than Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin,” Geychenko recalled. On 10 June 1949 Matvey Matveyevich opened the All-Union Pushkin Museum in the Alexander Palace, and from 1953 to 1965 he was its first director…
- …Yuliya Matveyevna Firtich, edited a website devoted to him in 2009, and in 2015 the All-Russian Pushkin Museum mounted the exhibition “Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to Abstraction”.
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14. Sources and Further Research
- …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”).
- …for saddles and harness in the collections of the Labinsk museum, the Felitsyn Museum, Mikhailovskoye and the All-Russian Pushkin Museum. The page “Kalaushin Yury Romanovich” in the encyclopaedia Istorichesky Cherkessk (cherkessk.su) — one of…
Sources
- S027Archive of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum
- S093M.V. Bokarius, “Glavny khranitel” (All-Russian Pushkin Museum library website)
- S129A.G. Rabinyants, “Tikhy podvig” (All-Russian Pushkin Museum library website)
- S150museumpushkin.ru: “140 years of the first Pushkin museum”
- S163All-Russian Pushkin Museum: exhibition “Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to Abstraction” (2015)