Hidden Culture in Tomsk
Matisse's muse Lidia Delektorskaya was born in Tomsk in this house at 20 Ulitsa Kuznetsova.
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The composer Edison Denisov grew up in this house at 30 Ulitsa Kuznetsova.
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Buff-Garden, the site of a poetry reading by Igor Severyanin.
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Russian writer Alexander Radishchev stayed a few nights in the building with the green roof at the end of Ulitsa Bakunina.
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The ground floor of the building at Ulitsa Bakunina has changed little since Alexander Radischev spent a few nights there in the 1790s.
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The revolutionary writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky spent 90 minutes in this building in 1864.
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Pavel Rachkovsky, an expert in Tomsk wooden architecture, stands in the courtyard of the building where Nikolai Chernyshevsky spent 90 minutes during a prisoner transfer in 1864.
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One of the homes, this one at 12 Ulitsa Krasnogo Pozharnika, in which poet Nikolai Klyuev lived during his exile in Tomsk before he was executed.
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The Sibir-Forum Hotel, where Vladimir Vysotsky stayed when visiting Tomsk for the first time to recite the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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