The Pushkin Museum in Kyiv was opened in 1999 — on the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian writer. It is noteworthy that this house was once where another famous literary classic — Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov — spent his childhood.
The exhibition is based on the personal collection of Yakov Berdichevsky, a well-known Kyiv Pushkin scholar and literary critic, who, when leaving for permanent residence in Germany, donated his relics to the city on the condition that they would become museum exhibits.
In the collection of the Pushkin Museum in Kyiv, in particular, one can see a rare edition of the verse novel "Eugene Onegin," published during the author's lifetime, as well as a copy of the journal "Sovremennik," probably owned by Alexander Sergeyevich himself, with permission from the censor A.L. Krylov.
In addition, the collection includes books with authors' inscriptions by the contemporaries of the great writer — politicians and men of letters he knew, with whom he maintained friendly and cordial relations.
Also worthy of attention is a statuette by the sculptor Alexander Terebenev, created in 1837 and depicting Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin full-length. Its composition is also unique — it is the so-called "biscuit" — a mixture of ground minerals.
