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\n \n Arts, The House of, an organisation for literary figures. It was founded by K. I. Chukovsky, M. Gorky, A. N. Tikhonov. Opened on 19 November 1919 in the former house of the Eliseev family at 15 Nevsky Prospect / 59 Moika River Embankment. It was governed by a council. A. A. Akhmatova, A. A. Blok, A. L. Volynsky, Gorky, M. V. Dobuzhinsky, E. I. Zamyatin, K. S. Petrov-Vodkin, N. N. Punin et al. were members at various times. Destined to solve problems and provide social help to artists, the House of Arts became a hostel for many of them: Volynsky, A. S. Grin, N. S. Gumilev (it was here that he was arrested in August 1921), M. M. Zoshchenko, L. N. Lunz, O. E. Mandelstam, V. A. Pyast, V. A. Rozhdestvensky, M. L. Slonimsky, O. D. Forsh, V. F. Khodasevich, M. S. Shaginyan et al. lived here. Literary soirees were routinely held in the House of Arts, A. Bely, Blok, Grin, Gumilev, Zamyatin, Zoshchenko, G. V. Ivanov, N. A. Klyuev, M. A. Kuzmin, Lunz, Mandelstam, V. V. Mayakovsky, N. N. Nikitin, A. M. Remizov et al. read here compositions written by them; A. V. Amfiteatrov, N. N. Evreinov, V. M. Zhirmunsky, A. F. Koni, Petrov-Vodkin, Chukovsky, V. B. Shklovsky, B. M. Eichenbaum et al. gave lectures, public debates were sponsored, exhibitions of works by contemporary artists, musical evenings and concerts were arranged. The emergence of Literary Groups Serapion's Brothers, the Sounding Shell, Inhabitants of the Island is connected with the work of the literary studio of the House of Arts where general courses were given and practical lessons were held. Debates were sponsored in the House of Arts, lectures of the Free Philosophical Association were given, sittings of OPOYaZ were held etc.; E. L. Schwarz, Y. P. Annenkov, V. Khlebnikov, S. A. Esenin, A. B. Mariengof, N. N. Aseev, B. L. Pasternak, H. Wells and many others were among visitors and guests of the House of Arts. The book shop of the House of Arts was located at 14 Herzen Street (today Bolshaya Morskaya Street). Only two issues of of the journal of the House of Arts were published in 1921. It was closed in the autumn of 1922. The activity of the House of Arts, the real centre of intellectual-artistic life of Petrograd became an example of creative communication, intense spiritual searching in a time of devastation, asperity, and social chaos. It was described in the novel by Forsh Crazy Ship; Khodasevich, Chukovsky, Slonimsky, Rozhdestvensky, Zamyatin, R. V. Ivanov-Razumnik, N. N. Berberova, I. V. Odoevtseva, V. A. Kaverin et al. left their memoirs about the House of Arts.

References: Шульц С. С. Дом Искусств. СПб., 1997; Тимина С. И. Культурный Петербург: ДИСК - 1920-е гг. СПб., 2001.

D. N. Cherdakov.\n
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Persons
\n \n \n Akhmatova Anna Andreevna\n
\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich)\n
\n \n \n \n \n Blok G.P.\n
\n \n \n \n Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich\n
\n \n \n \n \n Eichenbaum Boris Mikhailovich\n
\n \n \n \n Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich\n
\n \n \n \n \n Forsh Olga Dmitrievna\n
\n \n \n \n Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)\n
\n \n \n \n \n Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich\n
\n \n \n \n \n Ivanov-Razumnik (real name Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov)\n
\n \n \n \n Kaverin Veniamin Alexandrovich\n
\n \n \n \n \n \n Klyuev Nikolay Alexeevich\n
\n \n \n \n \n Kuzmin Mikhail Alexeevich\n
\n \n \n \n \n Mandelstam Osip Emilievich\n
\n \n \n \n \n Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich\n
\n \n \n \n Nikitin Nikolay Nikolaevich\n
\n \n \n \n \n \n Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich\n
\n \n \n \n Punin Nikolay Nikolaevich\n
\n \n \n \n \n \n Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich\n
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\n \n \n \n \n \n Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich\n
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