The display in the living room alludes to the novel “The White Guard” and the Turbin house, based on the Kyiv apartment of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. There he spent his childhood and youth.
Wall clock
Creation period
the 1890s–1900s
Place of сreation
the German Empire
Dimensions
65x30x16 cm
diameter of the dial — 14.5 cm
diameter of the dial — 14.5 cm
Technique
metal, enamel, paper, varnish, wood, glass; assembly
Collection
Exhibition
0
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…the clock had played its gavotte; and always towards the end of December there had been a smell of pine-needles and candles burning on evergreen branches. In answer to the gavotte played by the bronze clock in their mother’s bedroom — now Elena’s — the black clock on the wall had struck its steeple chimes. Their father had bought both clocks long ago, in the days when women had worn funny leg-of-mutton sleeves. Those sleeves had gone, time had slipped by like a flash, their father the professor had died, and they had all grown, but the clock remained the same and went on chiming. They had all grown used to the idea that if by some miracle that clock ever fell off the wall, it would be as sad as if a beloved voice had died and nothing could ever be hung there in its place. But clocks are fortunately quite immortal, as immortal as the Shipwright of Saardam, and however bad the times might be, the tiled Dutch stove, like a rock of wisdom, was always there to radiate life and warmth…
From Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The White Guard”
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The clock, this symbol of immortality, witnesses the dramatic events of the Turbin family. It accompanies changes in the house and sets the tone. Bulgakov writes, “The Clock’s tonk-tank was choked…”, “The minute hand stopped on the quarter-hour, the clock cleared its throat sedately and struck once”or “…as twilight approached the mood in the Turbins’ apartment grew sadder and sadder, and as a result the clock did not strike twelve, the hands stood still and silent, like a glittering sword wrapped in a flag of mourning that stood at half-mast.”
Initially, “The White Guard” wasn’t published in full. Only two first parts (chapters 1–13) were first published in the magazine “Russia” in 1925. Thereupon the magazine was closed, and the publishers were exiled from the country.
“The novel seems to me sometimes weak, sometimes very strong. I can no longer understand my feelings,” Mikhail Bulgakov shared in his diary.
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Wall clock
Creation period
the 1890s–1900s
Place of сreation
the German Empire
Dimensions
65x30x16 cm
diameter of the dial — 14.5 cm
diameter of the dial — 14.5 cm
Technique
metal, enamel, paper, varnish, wood, glass; assembly
Collection
Exhibition
0
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