A.S. Green House Museum

The house-museum of A. S. Green in Old Crimea is included, this is a house in which the remarkable prose writer, mystic and romantic Alexander Stepanovich Green (1880-1932) spent the last months of his life, and after that lived his widow Nina Nikolaevna, who preserved for us the touching atmosphere of modest rooms - witnesses of tragic events. The Green couple moved to Old Crimea from Feodosia in November 1930. Lived in rented apartments. Aleksandr Stepanovich once said, “We should change our apartment, Ninusha.” I am tired of this dark corner, I want space for my eyes. In June 1932, Nina Nikolaevna exchanged her gold watch for a house, which the writer bought and gave her beloved in 1927, receiving an advance payment for the collection of works sold to Wolfson. Later, Greene’s widow recalled: “And the clock gave me the opportunity to make one last gift to Alexander Stepanovich – to let him die in his house, which he had dreamed of for so long and fruitlessly and enjoyed for so long.”

In the Old Crimea, Greene finished his autobiographical essays and began the novel “Nadodor”. But the novel was not completed - the writer was seriously ill and soon died. On his grave, in the city cemetery, next to the tombstone - as a monument to a dream - a figure of Running on the waves (sculptor T. Gagarin). In 1934, Nina Nikolaevna managed to open the memorial room of A. S. Green in this house, but she dreamed of a state museum. In 1940, a letter came from the People’s Commissariat of Industry, in which it was agreed to the creation of the museum and appointed the date of its opening – to the 10th anniversary of the death of the writer. In the autumn of 1941, the German army entered Old Crimea, and in 1945 Greene’s widow was arrested and exiled. The cabin was left unattended. In 1956, Nina Nikolaevna returned to Old Crimea, finding strangers in the house and terrible devastation. The struggle for the return of the house and the creation of a memorial museum began. The widow was supported by Russian and Ukrainian writers.

In March 1960, Nina Nikolaevna wrote in a letter to M. Novikova: ...The key and the warrant for the house in my hands ... Now I will make a corner of Alexander Stepanovich for myself, for people, for the future. In May 1960, the memorial room of the writer was opened, in 1964 the house became a branch of the Feodosia Museum of Local Lore, in 1971 it was transferred to the Feodosia Literary and Memorial Museum of A. S. Green, then included in the reserve "Old Crimea". Later it became a branch of the Historical and Literary Museum, and since 2001 it is part of the reserve "Cimmeria M. A. Voloshin". To save the last shelter of the beloved writer, K. G. Paustovsky did a lot, whose museum is now on the same street as Greenovsky. “Green’s romance was simple, fun, brilliant. It aroused in people the desire for a diverse life full of risk and a sense of high, a life characteristic of explorers, navigators and travelers, he wrote in the story “Black Sea”.