20.09.2016  The NovSU Chair gave a lection in The House Museum of Chekhov in Moscow

From July 15, In The House Museum of A.P. Chekhov on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya Street (Moscow), the branch of The Literary State Museum, an exhibition «Everybody Lies: A.P. Chekhov in His Contemporaries’ Memories» is open.

On September 16-17 as a part of this exhibition, an educational program for this topic was organized. «In our family only dad and Masha tell the truth but others lie», – this Chekhov’s phrase, which became an impulse for making an exhibition, his sister Maria Pavlovna presents in her memoirs about the writer. The exhibition of The Literary State Museum collections is not oriented to accuse or expose some of relatives or contemporaries of the writer in telling lie.  The wish to talk about memory functions, about real and mythological image of writer Chekhov, about the facts given in memoirs sources of the second row is in the heart of it. There is a lot of handwritten memories from close acquaintances of A.P. Chekhov in the collection of museum: «The King of Moscow Reporters» V.A. Gilyarovsky, painters A.A. Hotyaintseva and M.T. Drozdova poetess and interpreter T.L. Schepkina-Kupernik, and also Chekhov’s sister  Maria Pavlovna.

Many of them were presented for the wide audience for the first time. Natalia Ivanova, the Chair of the NovSU Russian and Foreign Literature, the member of Chekvov’s commission of Russian Academy of Science, the author of articles about Chekhov’s museums and M.P. Chekhov’s family biographer, took part in academic project. She hold a lection: “Recall, Correct, Add, Delete and Change: the M.P.Chekhov’s First Biographer”, which examined in details the biographical sketches of Michael Pavlovich – the writer’s younger brother. They have a special place among memorial «Chekhoviana».

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