Pages of the biography of M. D. Belyaev: on The National Pushkin Museum materials

Mikhail Dmitrievich Belyaev, specialist in literature, Pushkin specialist, scholarly curator of the Literary Museum of The Pushkin House (The Institute of Russian Literature) and one of the creators of the exhibition in the last apartment of A. S. Pushkin on Moika, 12, is known only in a narrow circle of specialists. His legacy is of great interest in the context of the development of museum business in the late 1910s–1940s. A significant part of the personal archive of M. D. Belyaev, including books from his library, visual materials from his personal collection, personal things, his memoirs, scientific works, epistolary heritage and other materials, is now preserved in The National Pushkin Museum. This study, using materials from the Manuscript and Documentary Fund of The National Pushkin Museum, examines the biography of M. D. Belyaev, his participation in the creation of a number of exhibitions in the first half of the 20th century, and his contribution to the musealization of Russian cultural heritage.