У истоков создания музея А. А. Блока в Петрограде—Ленинграде

Abstract

The article reconstructs the history of an unrealized project to establish an apartment museum in memory of Alexander Blok in Petrograd immediately after the poet’s death in 1921. Other attempts to establish this museum, one in conjunction with Blok’s 60th anniversary in 1940 and another in 1941, also were unsuccessful. In 1940, the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkinskii Dom) established the “Commission for the study of A. Blok’s creative work.” Aside from preparing collections of academic articles about Blok and scholarly editions of his writings and of his correspondence, the Commission planned to participate in the organization of the Blok Museum in the author’s last apartment. The museum was to be opened in the autumn of 1941. This article also explores the biography of Georgii P. Blok (1888—1962), Alexander Blok’s cousin, who was an Afanasy Fet scholar and a prose writer, translator, and publisher himself. His letter to Boris M. Eichenbaum, in which G. P. Blok justifies his right to take the position of the curator of the museum not only because he was a relative of Alexander Blok but also because he was a Blok scholar, is published in an appendix to the article.