Exhibition "The Birth of a Poet"

March 24 at 15.00 in the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103) starts the exhibition project “Marina Tsvetaeva. Poetry and Prose of Life” dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of M. I. Tsvetaeva. The project is joint with the Kaluga Regional Scientific Library named after V. G. Belinsky. The project opens with the Birth of a Poet exhibition.

The exhibition project is a tribute to the memory of a great poet, an opportunity to plunge into high poetry and clothe its images in visible forms, to combine poetry and painting into a holistic perception.

Four chamber exhibitions will bring together museum collections, interesting book editions and works by contemporary masters. The name of the project was not chosen by chance. Life for Tsvetaeva was inextricably linked with her work. The fate of this amazing woman was filled with both high poetry and prosaic hard everyday life, tragic events. The poetry and prose of Marina Ivanovna is an amazing story about herself, her vision of the world, people and events. Through the prism of its perception, we, contemporaries, are also immersed in the era, the world of the poet, the scope of which expands to universal feelings and experiences.

The exhibition "The Birth of a Poet" is an immersion in the atmosphere of childhood and youth of the poetess. The watercolor urban landscape of Moscow, performed by Platon Appolonovich Nisevin, takes us to the territory of the Kremlin, where the Tsvetaeva sisters often visited as children. The lightness and translucency of watercolor creates the impression of a kind of weightless haze that envelops childhood memories. Autumn in Kuzminki by Ilya Alekseevich Sokolov, on the contrary, fills the world with bright sonorous colors, as if declaring to the world about the birth of the poet. He is echoed by a still life from a bouquet of mountain ash by Maria Nikolaevna Orlova-Mochalova. A riot of colors breaks into the world of poetry with the birth of Marina Tsvetaeva.

Views of Tarusa are represented by paintings by Vasily Polenov “Tarusa” by Viktor Krasilnikov “Lenin Street in Tarusa”, Vitaly Mironov “Temple of Peter and Paul”. The works differ both in the time of execution, and in the manner, and in the compositional construction, but they are united by love for this amazing picturesque place. This love helps us to see the "Tsvetaeva" Tarusa with its panoramic view and narrow village streets, ancient temples, to catch the poetic mood of its landscapes.

The medallion with the image of Marina Tsvetaeva in the garden near the country house in Tarusa by sculptor Vladimir Chuprun and the color autolithography by Anatoly Davydov help to recreate the visible image of the young Marina, dreamy and restless.

On October 8 (September 26), 1892, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow into the family of a professor at Moscow University and a talented pianist. The father of the future poetess, Ivan Vladimirovich, taught philology and art history, heading the Rumyantsev Museum shortly after the birth of Marina and founding the Museum of Fine Arts. Mother Maria Alexandrovna had an undoubted talent as a pianist, unfortunately, it was not possible to fully reveal it, since she died early, in 1906. Marina Tsvetaeva’s childhood passed between the family dacha in Tarusa and Moscow. In the summer, most of the time was spent in the country, the rest of the year the family lived in Moscow. Tsvetaeva can be called a gifted child - the future poetess began to read at the age of 4, the first poems were written at the age of 7, and she wrote not only in Russian, but also in French and German. At the age of 8-9 years, the future poetess attended classes at the gymnasium M. T. Bryukhonenko. Her musical abilities were also noticeable, but Tsvetaeva did not like to make music, so they did not receive development. In 1902, Marina was sent to study in Europe, where she studied science and languages in pensions in Italy, Switzerland and Germany until 1905. At the Sorbonne in 1909 she attended a course in French literature. This is an important stage in her life, because the biography of Marina Tsvetaeva clearly shows that at that time the worldview of the poetess was changing, which made her a loner in life with her uncompromising opinion and her own view of people and events. After the death of the mother, the care of the children fell on the shoulders of the father. He was busy in the service and could not devote all his time to them. Perhaps that is why the Tsvetaeva sisters grew up independent beyond their years.

At the age of 18, Tsvetaeva publishes the first collection "Evening Album", which includes 111 poems by the poetess. The collection was released at his own expense and found many positive reviews in the literary environment of Russia at that time. It includes early, for the most part, still raw and naive poems. Valery Bryusov called this collection a "personal diary", but Maximilian Voloshin praised the poems, noting that Tsvetaeva "knows how to convey shades." Praised the collection and Nikolai Gumilyov. Tsvetaeva herself later wrote that "The first collection helped to outline the guidelines for creativity, to find the relationship between the conflicts of earth and sky, life and being." The second collection was published in 1912 under the title "Magic Lantern". These collections shaped Tsvetaeva’s style, in which she learned to convey thoughts to readers in a form convenient for them and accessible to herself.

The Birth of a Poet exhibition will run until June 15.