IN THE MUSEUM OF PRINT (Saint-Petersburg, Moika river, 32) IS RECONSTRUCTED BOOKSTORE
In the very heart of St. Petersburg, right near the Hermitage, the Court Capella and the Pushkin Apartment Museum, an old book store is reconstructed in the Museum of Print (Moika river, 32).
Alexey Suvorin, a famous Russian belletrist and publisher, bought the tenement house at Moika river in 1905. Up to the revolution of 1917 the first two floors accomodated the editorial board, the printing shop and the book store of “Selsky Vestnik” (“The Rural Bulletin”) publishing house. From March to July 1917 the Bolshevik newspaper “Pravda” was printed in the “Selsky Vestnik” printing shop and the members of Pravda’s editorial board worked in apartment ¹ 4 under V. Lenin’s guidance. The Museum of Print derives from the museum called “V. I. Lenin and the Newspaper “Pravda” that was established in January 1984.
Moika river, 32. Photo of Carl Bulla
Museum of Print of Saint-Petersburg. 2009
One hundred years later the book store at the ground floor of the Museum of Print was reconstructed. The design and the interior of the shop reproduce that of the “Selsky Vestnik” book store. The collection of Vita Nova books and the approach to a book as a “joint piece of art” also reveal the succession of the traditions of the beginning of the 20th century.
The shop of “Selsky Vestnik” publishing house, 1911
BOOKSHOP. 2009
According to the idea of Vita Nova Publishers, the new book store will become another cultural center of St. Petersburg, where expositions, presentations and meetings with artists and writers will be held.
Here you can buy all the books of Vita Nova Publishing House, as well as the books of Yuri Norshtein: “Snow on the Grass”, “A Fox and a Hair” and “The Hedgehog in the Fog”.
We are open daily, 11-20.