In 2024, we are celebrates a special date – 225 years since the birth of Alexander Pushkin. In memory of the genius of the artistic word – Russia annually celebrates Pushkin Day and Russian Language Day – as a tribute to Pushkin for his contribution to the development of Russian culture, literary language and speech.

"Pushkin is the father, the progenitor of Russian art, just as Lomonosov is the father of science in Russia. In Pushkin lie the seeds and fundamentals from which all kinds of art developed later in all artists", - said the Russian writer and literary critic I. Goncharov.

Alexander Pushkin... What's behind that name? Poet, novelist, historian, patriot, freethinker, artistic icon, representative of Russian classical literature, a factor of the nation consolidation, hero of myths and jokes, saint or demon, trade mark... The answer is in the lines of Apollon Grigoryev, written as early as 1859: "Alexander Pushkin is our everything…  Apollon Grigoriev, a Russian writer and notionalist, believed that poets are "proclaimers of great truths and great mysteries of life", and saw in Pushkin the embodiment of all distinctive and singular that exits in the Russian people, what distinguishes their consciousness and even way of life from the life of other nations representatives.

Just as the ancient Greeks recognised themselves in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the Germans – in the works of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the French – in Victor Hugo works, so a Russian person finds himself in Pushkin's characters – often in perfect manifestation.
As Nikolai Gogol remarked about Pushkin - "Russian nature, Russian soul, Russian language, Russian character in Pushkin were reflected in the same virginity, in such purified beauty, in which the landscape is reflected on the convex surface of optical glass".

With time, the works of Pushkin were quoted and adopted into everyday life. His thought permeates the consciousness of representatives of the most diverse social groups and professions. A country boy or a student, a professor of history or philosophy, a linguist, a writer – everyone has his own Pushkin: some are interested in his fairy tales, others enjoy his lyrics Some enjoy his lyrics or the clarity of thought expressed in prose. But at the same time he is one for all. Some enjoy his lyrics or the clarity of thought expressed in prose. But at the same time he is one for all. Some enjoy his lyrics or the clarity of thought expressed in prose. But at the same time he is one for everyone.

The museum Collection exposition features a variety of items associated with the name of Alexander Pushkin. Some of them are presented in the section of the collection "Decorative Arts" – items decorated with compositions depicting the characters of A. Pushkin's fairy tales.

The business card holder "Ruslan fights with the Head" was created by students of the Imperial Stroganov School in the early 20^th century. The plot depicted on the card holder is based on the episode of Ruslan's meeting with the magic head from Pushkin's poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila". This work may have been inspired by Eugene Lanceray inkwell "Ruslan", 1884.

The cigarette case, the top lid of which is decorated with the Art Nouveau relief composition illustrating "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" and depicting Prince Gvidon with his bow lowered, the Swan Princess and a kite killed by an arrow and drowning in the sea. The cigarette case was made at Egor Cheryatov gold and silverware factory in 1908-1917.

A cigarette case with the composition "My Mirror, Mirror! Say..." was made by Sergei Shaposhnikov after the "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights " by A.Pushkin in 1908-1917.
"The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights" was written by Pushkin in one of his most fruitful creative periods, which is commonly referred to as the "Autumn in Boldino". The material for writing a fairy tale could be German, Scottish, Italian and Russian folklore, which Alexander Pushkin loved and knew well. Pushkin did not just revised the plot of the folk tale of the dead tzarevna, developing the tale as-told to him stories into verse, but breathed Russian identity into it. This was expressed in the created characters, in details and in protagonists personalities.

When reading Pushkin's fairy tales, one feels the extraordinary lightness of the word, its melodiousness, fluency and fluidity. Universal human problems, the struggle between good and evil, questions of the meaning of life, the revitalising power of love and death as retribution – all this has received philosophical understanding and is reflected in Pushkin's fairy tales.
There is no other poet in our history, with whom the public consciousness would so easily continue the long-begun “the heart-to-heart" conversation, and so vividly echoed. The reason for this is not only Pushkin's genius as an artist and thinker, but also the harmonious wholeness of his worldview. His texts seem to contain a natural response and precise answers to almost all questions that confront man from the day of his birth to the day of his death.