Can you tell your soul?... Automatic translate

On February 1, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenina St., 103) will host the literary and artistic exhibition project “Is it possible to tell a soul?..”, which is dedicated to the 210th anniversary of M. Yu. Lermontov. The first exhibition of the project touches on the theme of the Motherland in the works of M. Yu. Lermontov.

In 2024, the 210th anniversary of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841), the great son of Russia, the early deceased genius poet, prose writer, playwright, artist, and human being, is celebrated. To mark the anniversary, the museum together with the Kaluga Regional Scientific Library named after V. G. Belinsky are presenting a joint project. Lermontov’s confessional creativity served and continues to serve progressive ideas, and this always remains the main mission of the poet.

The image of the Motherland in the poet’s work is the image of Russia. This is, first of all, love for native nature, thirst for life. The exhibition, in combination with book editions, helps to recreate the multifaceted, vibrant image of the Motherland, which Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov so dearly loved and sang.

The works of art presented at the exhibition reflect different aspects of the poet’s love for his Fatherland. The image of the Caucasus appears before us in the graphic work of the poet’s contemporary, Prince Gagarin G. G. “Small Motherland” was recreated in the works of N. I. Maslyanov, M. E. Valukin. The authors of the pictorial and graphic depiction of the poet’s family estate managed to convey the mood of reverent love and nostalgia for the past. Using a delicate color scheme, the artist A. E. Shalaev talks about old Moscow. Watercolors by Kuzmin N.V. take us back to the historical past of Russia. They are complemented by a lithograph by Edmont Ruschke, conveying the drama and tension of a bygone historical era.