A. Green's house is an interesting museum in Old Crimea

The Alexander Green Museum in Feodosia is one of the pearls of Crimea. Opened on July 9, 1970 in the house where the writer lived from 1924 to 1929. The museum's exhibition embodies the spirit of the writer's romantic creativity. The small one-story house retained the memorial character of its walls, but received a non-standard design. The rooms of this unusual museum resemble cabins with sonorous names: “Frigate Hold”, “Wanderings Cabin”, “Captain’s Cabin”, “Clipper Room”, “Rostral”. The white walls are clad in dark wood and sisal rope. In addition to photographs, engravings, and manuscripts, there are ship rostras, models of sailing ships, antique ship instruments and maps, and ocean shells. The rigor of taste, the impeccability of proportions, the complete absence of signs of everyday life preserve in the museum a state of spirituality untouched by the years, and you feel happy in it, having returned to a childhood time of dreams.
Russian writer Alexander Stepanovich Green spent the best years of his creative maturity in Feodosia. Here were born his novels “The Golden Chain”, “Running on the Waves”, “Jessie and Morgiana”, “The Road to Nowhere”, pages of wonderful stories. From the first day of its birth, the Green House gathered wonderful, enthusiastic, and talented people under its roof. The founder of the museum, Gennady Zolotukhin, together with the artist Savva Brodsky, united around themselves the first “Grinovites” - a unique galaxy of artists who created the museum as a living fairy tale. The main idea of this House was and is - the union of the best, the “recognition” of close kindred souls. This is the Museum of Creativity. This is how the writer saw the world. Therefore, his House inspires musicians, artists, writers and actors. Fans of Green’s unusual prose can hear “live” music here and see in the exhibition halls the entire range of modern paintings, graphics, examples of plastic art and photography.
Through the gap in the street you can see the sea... Blue, festive in sunny weather and gloomy, gloomy, cold when the sky is overcast. The whistles of ships can be heard here, and the blue of the evening peeks through the closed shutters... At sunset, when the bustle of the day subsides, it is especially pleasant to wander through the small rooms of this amazing, unique museum... Let's open “Running on the Waves”: “I settled in an apartment right corner house of Amilego Street, one of the most beautiful streets of Lisse. The house stood at the lower end of the street... behind the dock, a place of ship debris and silence, broken, not too intrusively, by the language of the port day, softened by distance.” It seems that Alexander Green is talking here about himself, about the apartment where he settled in September 1924 and lived for several years, where his best books were written. Then the writer changed his apartment, and a year later he broke up with Feodosia altogether; the last two years of his life were spent in Old Crimea. And many years later, when the work of Alexander Green received worldwide recognition and his books began to be published in huge editions, and even former skeptics it became clear that Green’s romance was in tune with our time, people came to the house on Galereinaya Street who took on the difficult mission of creating Alexander Greene Museum and thereby perpetuate his memory... The museum is located in a building built in 1891, there are two memorial plaques on it: “The historical memorial building is a monument, protected by the state” and “In this house from September 1924 to April In 1929, the romantic writer Alexander Green lived and worked.”

Memorial House-Museum of A. S. Green

The house-museum of A. S. Green in Old Crimea is included, this is the house in which the wonderful prose writer, mystic and romantic Alexander Stepanovich Green (1880–1932) spent the last months of his life, and after that his widow Nina Nikolaevna lived, who has preserved for us a touching the furnishings of modest rooms - witnesses of tragic events.

The Green couple moved to Old Crimea from Feodosia in November 1930. They lived in rented apartments. Once Alexander Stepanovich said: “We should change our apartment, Ninusha. I’m tired of this dark corner, I want some space for my eyes...”

In June 1932, Nina Nikolaevna exchanged her gold watch for a house, which the writer purchased and gave to his beloved in 1927, having received an advance payment for the collected works sold to Wolfson. Later, Green’s widow recalled: “And the watch gave me the opportunity to give the last gift to Alexander Stepanovich - to let him die in his home, which he had dreamed of for so long and fruitlessly and which he had enjoyed so briefly.”

In Old Crimea, Green finished his autobiographical essays and began the novel “Touchy.” But the novel was not completed - the writer was seriously ill and soon died. On his grave, in the city cemetery, next to the tombstone - like a monument to a dream - there is a figurine of Running on the Waves (sculptor T. Gagarin).

Thanks to Nina Nikolaevna’s efforts, in 1934 it was possible to open a memorial room for A.S. Green in this house, but she dreamed of a state museum. In 1940, a letter came from the People's Commissariat for Education, in which consent was given to the creation of the museum and a date was set for its opening - on the 10th anniversary of the writer's death.

In the fall of 1941, the German army entered Old Crimea, and in 1945, Green’s widow was arrested and exiled. The house was left unattended. In 1956, Nina Nikolaevna returned to Old Crimea, finding strangers in the house and terrible devastation.

The struggle began to return the house and create a memorial museum in it. Writers from Russia and Ukraine supported the widow. In March 1960, Nina Nikolaevna wrote in a letter to M. Novikova: “...The key and warrant for the house are in my hands... Now I will make Alexander Stepanovich’s corner for myself, for people, for the future.”

In May 1960, a memorial room for the writer was opened, in 1964 the house became a branch of the Feodosia Museum of Local Lore, in 1971 it was transferred to the Feodosia Literary and Memorial Museum of A. S. Green, then included in the Old Crimea reserve. Later it became a branch of the Historical and Literary Museum, and since 2001 it has been part of the Cimmeria M. A. Voloshin reserve.

K. G. Paustovsky, whose museum is now located on the same street as Grinovsky’s, did a lot to save the last refuge of his beloved writer. “Green’s romance was simple, cheerful, brilliant. It aroused in people the desire for a varied life, full of risk and a sense of the high, a life characteristic of explorers, sailors and travelers,” he wrote in the story “The Black Sea.”

Feodosia is an old resort town, walking along the streets of which you can see a lot of its attractions. And if you look at Galereynaya Street and approach house number 10, the first thing that will catch your eye is “Brigantine”. This figurative panel is located on one of the walls of this building, which is the Alexander Greene Museum. Address of the Alexander Green Museum in Feodosia st. Gallery, 10. Telephone for museum inquiries +7 36562 3-13-09

Geographic coordinates of the Gnin Museum in Feodosia on the map of Crimea GPS N 45.0320 E 35.3806

This building was chosen to house a museum for quite objective reasons. Here the writer (also an artist!) lived almost five years of his life (from September 1924 to April 1929). This building was built at the end of the 20th century, and Alexander Green lived in one of the apartments in this house.
Some of his best works were created within the walls of Green’s apartment, which later became his calling cards. The first lines of “The Golden Chain”, “Running on the Waves”, “Road to Nowhere” and some other products of the writer’s creative activity originated in his thoughts here.

A lot of efforts were made by various people to create the museum. Special mention should be made of Gennady Zolotukhin, who devoted a considerable part of his life to studying the life and work of Alexander Green. He was very inspired by the idea of creating a museum, which was born in 1966. Zolotukhin approached the task assigned to him with great enthusiasm. For several years he collected Green's manuscripts and his personal belongings. The find was the encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron. This book was purchased by the writer in Feodosia. In order to create a collection of materials about Alexander Green, sufficient to create a museum, Zolotukhin tried to travel to all the places where the writer had once been. Museum worker Nelly Branitskaya helped him with this.

Once the materials were collected, a decision had to be made on what the museum itself would look like. This task was entrusted to the Moscow architect Savva Brotsky, who by that time was known for some successful projects. Several design options for the museum were thought through, but the final solution was surprising in its non-standard nature. They decided to build the Green Museum in the shape of a ship. The facade was decorated with the above-mentioned brigantine, and inside all the rooms were arranged in the form of cabins. And their names were quite unusual: Captain Gez's Cabin, Frigate's Hold, Wandering Cabin, Clipper Room, Rostral.

In July 1970, the grand opening of the Alexander Greene Museum took place. And already in 1986 it was supplemented with two more halls. The exhibition presented there was dedicated to the theme “Green – our contemporary”.
The entire museum is filled with information not only about the life of Alexander Greene, but also imbued with the destinies of his heroes. Currently, various exhibitions are often held here. The Green Museum has also become a meeting place for talented people of Feodosia and one of the most frequently visited

- memorial house-museum of the famous writer Alexander Sergeevich Green (Grinevsky), where the writer lived in 1924-1929 in,. It opened in 1970, 4 years after the decision to create it was made. The famous artist and architect Savva Brodsky worked on it.

In part, the museum is a restored life of the writer, on the other hand, the surroundings largely refer to the works. An anchor at the oak doors, rooms stylized as ship cabins and holds from the stories of Alexander Green. Each room has its own name.

In “The Country of Greenland” there is a relief map-panel on the wall, which is recreated according to the writer’s work with the greatest accuracy. “The Frigate's Hold” helps to more fully experience the maritime theme: woven shrouds soaked in the sea, silhouettes of ships on the walls, lanterns near the ceiling, and a portrait of the writer hanging above the door. “The Cabin of Wanderings,” through the language of the exhibits, will tell about Alexander’s youth, about what most influenced his life and mind. The “clipper” room is so named because of the beautiful model of the sailing clipper “Aurora” from “Reno Island” hanging on the wall, the author of the model is Igor Rodionov. This has its significance, because this ship was the first that Green described in his works. The “Rostral Room” can be very surprising - the bow of the ship floats right through the wall at visitors - a rostrum, from the bowsprit of which hangs a model of the ship "Secret" with scarlet sails. The last room - “Captain's Cabin” - seems to be recreated from the novel “Running on the Waves”.

This is a very popular place in the artistic community; not only writers, but also painters and musicians hold their meetings in the museum’s rooms; temporary exhibitions and expositions are created; there are also permanent ones, for example, “Green and Modernity”.

Address: Galereynaya Street, 10. You can walk from the School No. 2 stop or from Kuibysheva Street, where minibuses 1, 14, 15, 2, 2A run and stop on demand. From the railway station along Aivazovsky Avenue north to Galereynaya.

Photo attraction: Alexander Green Museum

Memorial House-Museum of A. S. Green