Our last year's highlight, The Poet and The Tsar exhibition is re-launched as a travelling project and now visiting the city of Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia.
Organised by Tsarskoe Selo and the National Pushkin Museum and supported by Russia's Ministry of Culture, the exhibition opened at the Novosibirsk State Museum of Local Lore during the Night of Museums on 17 May.
The exhibition is dedicated to the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, whose 225th birth anniversary was celebrated last year, and to his relationships with the Russian emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I, his contemporaries, and with his literary inspirations: Tsar Boris Godunov, Peter I, and Catherine II.
The artefacts and memorial objects on display include Alexander Pushkin's death mask, an urn with his hair lock, an imprint of his talisman ring, and his griffin paper press given to his friend Anton Delvig. Other exhibits include belongings of Russian emperors and imperial family members, uniforms, sculptures, archive documents, paintings and prints.
The Poet and The Tsar also has a special audio tour covering Pushkin's life from his Lyceum years to the tragic death at 37.
Hosted in Novosibirsk until 20 July 2025, the exhibition's next stops will be Tyumen in western Siberia and Salekhard on the Arctic Circle.
