The Library/Reception Room
This bright room with large windows is furnished with exquisitely decorated light-coloured wooden cupboards made at the request of Irina Antonovna, the composer’s wife.
Cabinets with sheet music.
Между парных, на четыре свечи канделябров (бронза, литьё, Ближний Восток, начало XX века), подаренных А. И. Хачатуряном в 1956 году на 50-летие, расположен портрет Шостаковича в молодости (Г. Д. Гликман. Гипс, авторская копия. Ленинград, 1969).
Radio receiver “VEF-Transistor 10”. USSR, Riga, 1960s.
Perpetual desk calendar “Rastral Column”. The Leningrad Mint. 1960s.
The author's copy of the work of the Leningrad sculptor A. N. Chernitsky “Young Shostakovich”. Gypsum. Leningrad, 1938. The original is in the State Russian Museum.
Antique lamp on console. Russia, early twentieth century. Wood, bronze, brass. Converted into an electric light fixture in the 1950s - 1960s.
National music center, Japan. 1970s In a folding case, a turntable, a receiver. In 1975, it was installed in the Shostakovich hospital ward so that he could listen to music and news.
Mechanical music box with mortise lock and key. Western Europe, late 19th century.
Decorated with marquetry of different types of wood. The box was purchased by Irina Antonovna Shostakovich in a Moscow antique shop in 1971 as a birthday present to Dmitry Dmitrievich.
- Popular melodies of the music of everyday life of those years (waltzes, polkas), recorded on the roller reminiscent of the sounds of a barrel organ from Shostakovich's Petersburg childhood.
Cabinets with books.
Among the books Shostakovich received from various authors is a collection of poems with a dedication by Yevgeni Yevtushenko: “To my dear, beloved Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, coveting your genius and in eternal, irredeemable gratitude, Ye. Yevtushenko”.
Shostakovich’s library boasts over two thousand sheet music publications and books with the owner’s autograph and dedicatory inscriptions from famous musicians.
In the centre of the room is a table and chairs made from Karelian birch.
There is a sculptural portrait of Shostakovich on one of the shelves of the bookcase and another on one of the shelves of the cupboard.
In the centre of the room is a table and chairs made from Karelian birch.
There is a sculptural portrait of Shostakovich on one of the shelves of the bookcase and another on one of the shelves of the cupboard.
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