Literary and Art Museum

The small shady town of Old Crimea inspired the work of many famous artists, poets, writers rather with its atmosphere - it worked well here. However, behind the entourage of beautiful nature, healing air and peace, it concealed the mysteries and realities of a turbulent centuries-old history. Maximilian Voloshin often walked here from Koktebel; he and his guests called the forest road across the hills “Grinovskaya”. The Old Crimean Literary and Art Museum is located in the estate of the late nineteenth century, created in the style of South Russian classicism. On the pediment of the building there is a tin plaque with the inscription: "Insured in Warsaw society".

The institution of 1870”. An interesting house with powerful walls and a complicated history. Employees of the museum are searching for its owners. There is a version that the merchant and philanthropist Yakov Kurkuzaki lived in it, but perhaps it belonged to relatives of I. S. Turgenev. Until 1917, the building housed a merchant’s meeting, then a teachers’ seminary. During the Great Patriotic War, the Germans placed the Gestapo in it, and after 1945 the house was occupied by the Starokrymsky hill of the Komsomol and the party hill. Since the 1980s, a kindergarten has been located within its walls. In 1996, the house was transferred to the Old Crimean Historical and Literary Museum, created on the stock materials of the transformed local history museum and the liquidated Old Crimea reserve. Later, the museum was renamed as a literary and artistic museum. In 2001, it became part of the reserve "Cimmeria M. A. Voloshin".

The exposition of several halls of three floors is diverse. Here are unique materials on the history of the city, ranging from ancient Solkhat, obtained thanks to archaeological excavations in the vicinity of Old Crimea. The ethnographic exposition is represented by objects of culture and life of peoples living in a multinational city. One of the halls recreates the interior of the provincial mansion of the early twentieth century.

Typological interiors create a special coziness in the rooms where the names of famous people whose personal and creative fate concerned the Old Crimea sound: artists I. Aivazovsky, K. Bogaevsky, M. Voloshin, T. Gagarina, poets M. Tsvetaeva, Gr. Petnikov, V. Rozhdestvensky, B. Chichibabin, Yu. Drunina, L. Vysheslavsky, writers A. Green, K. Paustovsky, A. Tsvetaeva, M. Bogdanovich, film writer A. Kapler, outstanding Kardikhurov. N. Memorial items, documents, materials related to their stay in the city are presented. The exposition of permanent exhibitions from personal collections and museum funds continues. The museum hosts chamber evenings, international conferences and festivals. Every year, within the framework of the festival "Greenland" on the birthday of A. Green, the staff of the Literary and Art Museum raise the Scarlet Sails of dreams on Mount Agarmysh over Old Crimea.