Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky’s Vienna rocking chair (the Sitzmaschine model) was on the southern veranda, in the writer’s studio. This veranda was called “shagalnya”, which can be translated as “a pacing place”.
It was the writer Alexander Kuprin that first came up with this unusual name for the veranda in the writer’s house: Sergeyev-Tsensky was in the habit of walking back and forth on the veranda with his hands behind his back when thinking about his works. Kuprin was the first writer that Sergeyev-Tsensky met. In his book “The Eagle Looks at the Sun”, Ivan Shevtsov described this meeting as follows:
Rocking chair
Время создания
the 1920s–1930s
Место создания
Europe
Размер
107x52 cm
Техника
wood, fabric, straw
Коллекция
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Sergey Nikolayevich [Sergeyev-Tsensky] showed the guests around his ‘possessions’: the garden, the house with a study, a bedroom, and a dining room, and the big, ten-meter-long terrace.
‘This is a shagalnya [a pacing place]’, Alexander Ivanovich [Kuprin] said smiling.
‘A shagalnya, ’ Sergey Nikolayevich agreed. Indeed, he was in the habit of pacing the terrace while thinking over his works.
When they sat at the table, Kuprin started talking warmly and sincerely:
‘You have such talent, dear Sergey Nikolayevich, that few of us have… But you do not live accordingly — your living is modest, perhaps, even meager. You should see Leonid Andreyev’s studio. Fifteen rooms… A palace! And you have… a shagalnya. Have you met Leonid? ’
‘I never had the honor, ’ Sergey Nikolayevich replied and added: ‘You are the first writer I have seen, so to speak, in real life.’
And everyone laughed merrily.
‘What do I need a palace for? What shall I do with
it? I do not hold any balls or masquerades, ’ Sergey Nikolayevich said calmly,
‘so the ‘shagalnya’ is quite enough for me.’
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In 1905, Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky came to Alushta in Crimea. In the autumn of 1906, he bought an estate in the mountain area of Hurda-Tarly on the southern slope of Orlinaya Mountain. The writer lived in Alushta for over 50 years. It was there that he wrote most of his works, including epics “Sevastopol Labors” and “Russia’s Transfiguration”. In 1962, after Sergeyev-Tsensky’s death, his widow donated the estate, the house with all its furnishings and the library to the city. On May 6, 1962, the Sergeyev-Tsensky Memorial Literary Museum was opened in the house where the writer had lived. The museum consists of two sections — the literary one and the memorial one, where the interior has been preserved as it was during the writer’s lifetime. Next to the house, on the writer’s grave, a monument to him was erected.
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Rocking chair
Время создания
the 1920s–1930s
Место создания
Europe
Размер
107x52 cm
Техника
wood, fabric, straw
Коллекция
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