There are as many as five bookcases in the Pavel Bazhov House-Museum: three are located in the writer’s study, one stands in the corridor and one in the children’s room. The design of this particular bookcase is quite unusual. Each shelf is equipped with a solid wooden door, instead of a glass one, that opens and closes parallel to the floor — up and down.
The library, presented in the exhibition of the Bazhov Memorial House-Museum, includes over 2000 titles. These are books that Pavel Petrovich himself read, publications of his contemporaries with dedicatory inscriptions, and volumes collected by the writer’s widow in the 1950s and 1960s.
The bookcase mainly houses publications of writers and poets, Bazhov’s contemporaries, as well as scientists.
Many writers considered it their duty to present the chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Writers’ Union with a copy of their own collection of poems, short stories or novellas. This collection contains books sent by the authors from the Union republics, including Pavlo Tychyna, Oksana Ivanenko, Salavat Miasov, the Armenian poets Gevorg Emin and Silva Kaputikyan, and books in Uzbek by Sodyk Kalandar and others.
In addition to fiction books, there are a number of specialized works from Bazhov’s friends of different professions. For example, it includes works by the historians Viktor Danilevsky, Bernhard Kafenhaus, Leonid Kapterev, and by the literary critics Evgeny Bogolyubov, Mikhail Kitaynik, and Lyudmila Skorino.
Pavel Petrovich was also acquainted with the Biryukov family, famous in the Urals. One of the brothers, Vladimir Petrovich was a local historian, lexicographer and folklorist, author of more than 30 works. He signed his publications and presented them to Bazhov. The collection also contains the book “How I Became a Gardener” by another Biryukov, Arkady Pavlovich, a pediatrician with an academic background in agriculture.
On his own experimental farm, Arkady Pavlovich Biryukov developed varieties of apple trees that are most suited for the Ural climate. Bazhov’s relatives recalled that the trees in their family garden belonged to the Biryukov’s varieties. Their seedlings were presented to the writer by the agriculturalist himself.
The bookcase also accomodates various catalogs from organizations: the Molotov State Art Gallery, the Tula House of Folk Art, the Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kiev, the Sverdlovsk State Public Library named after Belinsky, and so on.
The library, presented in the exhibition of the Bazhov Memorial House-Museum, includes over 2000 titles. These are books that Pavel Petrovich himself read, publications of his contemporaries with dedicatory inscriptions, and volumes collected by the writer’s widow in the 1950s and 1960s.
The bookcase mainly houses publications of writers and poets, Bazhov’s contemporaries, as well as scientists.
Many writers considered it their duty to present the chairman of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Writers’ Union with a copy of their own collection of poems, short stories or novellas. This collection contains books sent by the authors from the Union republics, including Pavlo Tychyna, Oksana Ivanenko, Salavat Miasov, the Armenian poets Gevorg Emin and Silva Kaputikyan, and books in Uzbek by Sodyk Kalandar and others.
In addition to fiction books, there are a number of specialized works from Bazhov’s friends of different professions. For example, it includes works by the historians Viktor Danilevsky, Bernhard Kafenhaus, Leonid Kapterev, and by the literary critics Evgeny Bogolyubov, Mikhail Kitaynik, and Lyudmila Skorino.
Pavel Petrovich was also acquainted with the Biryukov family, famous in the Urals. One of the brothers, Vladimir Petrovich was a local historian, lexicographer and folklorist, author of more than 30 works. He signed his publications and presented them to Bazhov. The collection also contains the book “How I Became a Gardener” by another Biryukov, Arkady Pavlovich, a pediatrician with an academic background in agriculture.
On his own experimental farm, Arkady Pavlovich Biryukov developed varieties of apple trees that are most suited for the Ural climate. Bazhov’s relatives recalled that the trees in their family garden belonged to the Biryukov’s varieties. Their seedlings were presented to the writer by the agriculturalist himself.
The bookcase also accomodates various catalogs from organizations: the Molotov State Art Gallery, the Tula House of Folk Art, the Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kiev, the Sverdlovsk State Public Library named after Belinsky, and so on.
