Correspondence, manuscripts, journals and monographs, city plans, graphics, and digital images illustrate the artistic activity that characterized the period known as the Silver Age of Russian Art. First editions by writers such as Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandel'shtam and Vladimir Mayakovsky, a diary penned by Lily Brik and a publisher's mark designed by Mstislav Dobouzhinsky will be on display. Works by world-famous personalities in dance, theater and music—including correspondence between the artists Natalya Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov about Sergei Diaghilev, and hand-painted costume designs by Lev Bakst for Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballet Russe—will be available for viewing.

A public program to mark the opening of the exhibit will feature Kelly Miller, a U-M graduate, who will present "St. Petersburg and Early 20th-Century Russian Literature and the Arts." The program is p.m. Sept. 25.

Exhibition hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-noon Saturday in the Special Collections Library on the 7th floor of the Hatcher Library. For more information about the exhibition, call (734) 764-9377.

"Celebrating St. Petersburg: 300 Years of Cultural Brilliance" is a multidisciplinary festival sponsored by U-M during the fall semester. It will feature an exclusive exhibition of fine and decorative art in the Museum of Art on loan from the Hermitage Museum, and it will involve many well-known Russian performers.

For information on St. Petersburg festival events, visit http://www.umich.edu/~urel/stp/.

More Stories

• Open Enrollment schedule set
• State of traffic in Ann Arbor Parts of five streets go two-way Aug. 22
• Study: Sexy, violent shows reduce recall of ad brands
• Weak economic recovery hits more states, hammers same old
• Tax cut may have little impact
• Standing by
• Michigan traffic deaths and severe-injury crashes drop
• Using participating providers' reduces out-of-pocket medical expenses for retirees with BCBS
• American workways can sabotage communication
• University Library presents St. Petersburg exhibit
• The Duke turns 300
• The forest for the trees
• Museum mammal collection network to aid conservation and research
• UMHS Trauma Burn Center receives Level 1 verification
• Matthaei Gardenscape dedicated
• Research notes