“We Are Returning to the Poet His House …” (On the Correspondence of V. E. Evgenyev-Maksimov with O. V. Lohman. From the Collection of the Manuscript Department of the Pushkin House (Pushkinsky Dom), Russian Academy of Sciences)

Abstract

The article demonstrates the main activities that took place at the museum on Liteiny Prospekt 36 in the early 1950s. The correspondence of V. E. Evgenyev-Maksimov with O. V. Lohman discloses the problems at the apartment-museum of Nikolay Nekrasov in Leningrad. This sheds some light upon several chapters of museum’s history and shows the significance of museum work for the well-known scholar who was behind its creation. Refs 3.