The literary critic Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky called Astrakhan “one of the keys to Khlebnikov.” Many foundations of the worldview of the poet, thinker, and Budetlyanin (futurist) Velimir (Viktor Vladimirovich) Khlebnikov were laid there. From his father, he adopted a love of nature and an understanding of its laws, from his mother — a sense of beauty, an interest in history and languages. “The children <…> are artists, writers, inventors, ” as the poet described himself, his brother Alexander and sister Vera in “The Night before the Soviets”.
The Khlebnikovs Collection includes heirlooms preserved by Vera Vladimirovna Khlebnikova and her husband Pyotr Vasilyevich Miturich. It was donated to the city of Astrakhan by their son May Petrovich Miturich-Khlebnikov in 1994–1997.
The collection includes the family library with notes and publications of family members, drawings and plans, paintings, graphic and decorative works, personal belongings, documents, and a family photo album.
Research papers about the collection have been published in scientific collections of the universities of Amsterdam, Lyon, Florence, São Paulo, Moscow, and St. Petersburg.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.