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From: Tatyana Ponomareva <azint@mail.wplus.net>
To all who are interested in the developments in the Nabokov Museum I
apologize for the irregularity of our newsletter. Most of our time has
been taken by preparing our new website www.nabokovinrussia.org. We hope
to launch it in about a week from now. This is going to be an
all-embracing website where all of the museum's activities will be
reported.
The museum continues to work, in spite of unusually cold winter and
unusually high utility bills. Also, we plan to expand our permanent
exhibition. The opening of the new section devoted to VN's butterflies is
planned for April.
The latest Nabokov event was the round-table discussion focusing on the
Tenishev school. A number of Tenishev students of the 1930ies participated
in the event and Tenishev school books used in Nabokov's time were
borrowed from The Russian National Library for the occasion. The main
discovery made at the gathering was that as late as in the 1930ies the
school memories and even a fraction of the school spirit were still alive.
Interestingly, the school was alternately a boys' and a girls' school but
never a co-ed school. Now the building houses the St.Petersburg Theatrical
Academy.
Our art gallery hosted two exhibits in December-January. One was part of
the "Avant-garde on the Neva" project which is a tribute to artists who
pursued free imaginative art in the 1950ies-1970ies, unabashed by the
various forms of official pressure. The latest exhibition in the series
presented the works of Leon Nissenbaum (1925-2000). At Christmas time we
presented the exhibition of the works by Sergei Volkov (1950-1994).
The artist who died tragically when still young left behind a vast
collection of works that are now gaining recognition. Childhood is one
of the leading themes of his art.
We keep working on programs focusing on writers whose artistic presence is
welcome in the Nabokov house. In March the museum will conduct a program
focusing on Franz Kafka. The program will include a one-day conference and
an exhibition of works inspired by Kafka's texts by the Moscow artist
Alexander Konstantinov.
We hope to see you at the museum some day!
Tatyana Ponomareva
Director
Nabokov Museum, St.Petersburg
mailto:azint@mail.wplus.net
To all who are interested in the developments in the Nabokov Museum I
apologize for the irregularity of our newsletter. Most of our time has
been taken by preparing our new website www.nabokovinrussia.org. We hope
to launch it in about a week from now. This is going to be an
all-embracing website where all of the museum's activities will be
reported.
The museum continues to work, in spite of unusually cold winter and
unusually high utility bills. Also, we plan to expand our permanent
exhibition. The opening of the new section devoted to VN's butterflies is
planned for April.
The latest Nabokov event was the round-table discussion focusing on the
Tenishev school. A number of Tenishev students of the 1930ies participated
in the event and Tenishev school books used in Nabokov's time were
borrowed from The Russian National Library for the occasion. The main
discovery made at the gathering was that as late as in the 1930ies the
school memories and even a fraction of the school spirit were still alive.
Interestingly, the school was alternately a boys' and a girls' school but
never a co-ed school. Now the building houses the St.Petersburg Theatrical
Academy.
Our art gallery hosted two exhibits in December-January. One was part of
the "Avant-garde on the Neva" project which is a tribute to artists who
pursued free imaginative art in the 1950ies-1970ies, unabashed by the
various forms of official pressure. The latest exhibition in the series
presented the works of Leon Nissenbaum (1925-2000). At Christmas time we
presented the exhibition of the works by Sergei Volkov (1950-1994).
The artist who died tragically when still young left behind a vast
collection of works that are now gaining recognition. Childhood is one
of the leading themes of his art.
We keep working on programs focusing on writers whose artistic presence is
welcome in the Nabokov house. In March the museum will conduct a program
focusing on Franz Kafka. The program will include a one-day conference and
an exhibition of works inspired by Kafka's texts by the Moscow artist
Alexander Konstantinov.
We hope to see you at the museum some day!
Tatyana Ponomareva
Director
Nabokov Museum, St.Petersburg
mailto:azint@mail.wplus.net