The exhibition features a black stone stand decorated with a figurine of a deer’s head, with recesses for inkwells and pens. On the stand, there are two rotating bronze candlesticks on openwork railings, and two figured glass inkwells with bronze cone-shaped lids. Vitaly Aleksandrovich Zakrutkin bought the inkwell with candles and a deer’s head in Leningrad in the 1950s.
Vitaly Zakrutkin used these inkwells while working
on the novel “Floating Stanitsa” which he wrote during his third year in
Kochetovskaya. In this book, the writer addressed issues of environmental
protection, morality, and humanism. He wrote about the impact of natural beauty
on one’s aesthetic development. He also explored the post-war period and wrote
about the people who took on the restoration of what had been lost and
destroyed with incredible zeal and enthusiasm. They were building something new
and hoped that future generations would never face the horrors of war again.
The characters of the novel confessed their love for the place where they were
born and raised,
