Lopatino. The Alexander Blok Museum.

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth, on November 2, 1980, the Alexander Blok Literary Museum was opened in d.Lopatino. It was the first A. Blok museum in the Soviet Union. Since the 80s of the last century, local historians have been carefully collecting relics associated with the great Russian poet.

The first poet of the silver age of Russian poetry, Alexander Blok, was brought to Polesie by the First World War. Here in the vicinity of Pinsk: Parokhonsk, Kamen, Pogost-Zagorodsky, Kolbakh, Lopatino, Chernov – he stayed from July 1916 to March 1917. He did not write poetry, only lines from letters addressed to his wife and mother conveyed to the inhabitants of Petrograd images of Polesie, engulfed by military operations. Polesie impressions, awareness of the war as a national tragedy will affect his subsequent work, so unlike "Poems about a Beautiful Lady"…

Alexander Blok began his service as a timekeeper of the 13th engineering and construction squad of the All-Russian Union of Lands and Cities, then became head of the department, under whose leadership there were more than 2,000 workers engaged in the construction of Russian fortifications along the front line, encircling Pinsk from three sides. He often happened to be at the Luninets junction station, where reinforcements arrived, as well as in frontline villages, including Parokhonsk, the last station on the Russian side, where only military echelons were allowed. In the Parokhon estate of the princes of Drutsky-Lyubetsky, Alexander Blok admired the blooming garden and the Bobrik River, which, winding through the fields, approached the manor house. From here, letters were sent to St. Petersburg with a story about his frontline everyday life.

The Lopatinsky Museum houses about 3,000 exhibits related to the life and work of the famous Russian poet. The museum tour tells about his family, about the silver age of Russian poetry and the place that his poetic work occupies on the Russian and world literary Olympus, and about the Polesie days of Alexander Blok.

Visitors have a unique opportunity to watch films about Blok, hear the poet's live voice, songs based on his poems, purchase booklets "Blok on Polesie", "The Belarusian page of Alexander Blok's life", "Children of Blok", "Shakhmatovo Manor in the poetic world of A.Blok".