On the day of the 50th anniversary of Aleksey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov’s literary career, a large company of his friends and relatives gathered in his flat in Saint Petersburg. Known for his easy-going, sympathetic character, good manners and undoubted literary talent, Aleksey Mikhailovich made a great many acquaintances in literary circles during his life.
For more than 40 years Zhemchuzhnikov was a full member of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. At the anniversary of his literary career, the chairman of this society, Professor Alexander Nikolaevich Veselovsky of Moscow University, read out a letter of congratulations from Leo Tolstoy, who, according to the anniversary celebrant, made him very happy. By that time, Zhemchuzhnikov had known Tolstoy for about 50 years; he was one of Tolstoy’s few acquaintances, with whom the writer was on a first-name terms. Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov was married to Elizaveta Alekseyevna Dyakova, the sister of a friend of Tolstoy’s youth, Dmitry Alekseyevich Dyakov.
Zhemchuzhnikov, one of the authors of Kozma Prutkov’s works, made his literary debut in 1850 with the poetic comedy “Strange Night”, published in the February issue of Sovremennik. At the same time, the comedy was staged at the Alexandrinsky Theater, where it ran until 1874.
The armchair housed in the Kirsanov Local History Museum was presented to the poet Aleksey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov by his relatives on the 50th anniversary of his literary work. The armchair is equipped with a reading stand with a dedication inscription on a silver plate, “February 10, 1900 (1821–1850). In good memory of Anna Artsimovich, Sofia Perovskaya, Vera Perovskaya, Olga, Anna, Sophia, Elizaveta Artsimovich, Ek. Artsimovich, Mih. Artsimovich”.
It is known for a fact who the chair belonged to after Zhemchuzhnikov’s death in 1908. It was inherited by his eldest daughter Olga Boratynskaya, then by her stepdaughter Elena Mikhailovna Boratynskaya. Elena Mikhailovna, daughter of Mikhail Andreyevich Boratynsky by his first marriage, devoted her life to medicine and worked for more than 20 years in the hospital of Gavrilovka village. After Boratynskaya’s death in 1968, many of her belongings, including the armchair of Aleksey Mikhailovich, were given to the Kirsanov Local History Museum.
For more than 40 years Zhemchuzhnikov was a full member of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. At the anniversary of his literary career, the chairman of this society, Professor Alexander Nikolaevich Veselovsky of Moscow University, read out a letter of congratulations from Leo Tolstoy, who, according to the anniversary celebrant, made him very happy. By that time, Zhemchuzhnikov had known Tolstoy for about 50 years; he was one of Tolstoy’s few acquaintances, with whom the writer was on a first-name terms. Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov was married to Elizaveta Alekseyevna Dyakova, the sister of a friend of Tolstoy’s youth, Dmitry Alekseyevich Dyakov.
Zhemchuzhnikov, one of the authors of Kozma Prutkov’s works, made his literary debut in 1850 with the poetic comedy “Strange Night”, published in the February issue of Sovremennik. At the same time, the comedy was staged at the Alexandrinsky Theater, where it ran until 1874.
The armchair housed in the Kirsanov Local History Museum was presented to the poet Aleksey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov by his relatives on the 50th anniversary of his literary work. The armchair is equipped with a reading stand with a dedication inscription on a silver plate, “February 10, 1900 (1821–1850). In good memory of Anna Artsimovich, Sofia Perovskaya, Vera Perovskaya, Olga, Anna, Sophia, Elizaveta Artsimovich, Ek. Artsimovich, Mih. Artsimovich”.
It is known for a fact who the chair belonged to after Zhemchuzhnikov’s death in 1908. It was inherited by his eldest daughter Olga Boratynskaya, then by her stepdaughter Elena Mikhailovna Boratynskaya. Elena Mikhailovna, daughter of Mikhail Andreyevich Boratynsky by his first marriage, devoted her life to medicine and worked for more than 20 years in the hospital of Gavrilovka village. After Boratynskaya’s death in 1968, many of her belongings, including the armchair of Aleksey Mikhailovich, were given to the Kirsanov Local History Museum.
