In the dining room of the museum house, between the windows, there is a big photograph in a bronze-colored plaster frame, depicting Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky at work. It was taken by the Crimean press photographer Georgy Borodin. His autograph features in the lower right corner of the photograph.
The photo was taken on September 30, 1955. Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky was photographed on his 80th birthday.
The photograph was taken near the house — the “writer’s studio” — of Sergeyev-Tsensky. It shows the southern facade, the veranda and the cypress trees. The photograph also features some of the museum’s exhibits — a carved metal table with a tablecloth and a vine wicker armchair that have been placed on the grounds in front of the house. Sergeyev-Tsensky is seen sitting on a bench with a backrest made of wooden slats. The table is decorated with a Bohemian glass vase with flowers.
Sergeyev-Tsensky’s 80th birthday was widely celebrated: he received hundreds of letters and telegrams with congratulations from all over the country and abroad. Soldiers of the Soviet Army and delegations of young pioneers came to congratulate the writer in his workshop in Alushta.
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky was awarded the Order of Lenin for his outstanding achievements in the development of Soviet literature and to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the oldest writer in the country. He was honored at a gala meeting at the Gorky Crimean Regional Theater, where Dmitry Polyansky, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, presented the writer with the country’s highest civilian award.
On the day of Sergeyev-Tsensky’s 80th birthday, the editorial board and the staff of “Literaturnaya Gazeta” issued an editorial where they praised the early period of his career,
