Tamara Mikhailovna Melnikova (born 15 November 1940,

Yarmolyntsi Yarmolyntsi ( uk, Ярмолинці; , ) is an urban-type settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Yarmolyntsi settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement's ...

, Khmelnytskyi region,

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

) is a Russian museum worker, teacher,

literary scholar Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's goals and methods. T ...

. Honoured Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. Laureate of

State Prize of the Russian Federation The State Prize of the Russian Federation, officially translated in Russia as Russian Federation National Award, is a state honorary prize established in 1992 following the breakup of the Soviet Union. In 2004 the rules for selection of laureates ...

(2014).

Biography

She was born on 15 November 1940 in the village of

, Khmelnytskyi region,

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

. In 1962 she graduated from the Faculty of History and Languages

Penza State University Penza State University (russian: Пензенский государственный университет) is a state university A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic deg ...

. In 1962 she started to work as a teacher of the Russian language at the Kruttsovskaya eight-year school of the Kolyshleysky district of the Penza region. In 1968 she began working in the Lermontov State Museum as a senior researcher, soon she was transferred to the position of a chief curator, and later to the position of deputy director for research work.

State Lermontov Museum – Reserve "
Tarkhany Tarkhany ( rus, Тарха́ны, p=tɐˈrxanɨ) is a Writer's house museum in a Russian estate where the Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) spent his childhood and was buried. The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is loc ...
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Since 1978 she has been the director of the State Lermontov Museum-Reserve "

Tarkhany Tarkhany ( rus, Тарха́ны, p=tɐˈrxanɨ) is a Writer's house museum in a Russian estate where the Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) spent his childhood and was buried. The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is loc ...

". She was in charge of gathering exhibits (about six thousand items), restoring the chapel on the grave of M. Yu. Lermontov (1978–1994), the Church of Mary of Egypt and Michael the Archistratigus (1983–1985), the house-museum (1990–1997), etc. She participated in organizing the A.I.Kuprin Museum in Narovchat, creating a memorial exposition of the V.G.Belinsky Museum, restoring the A.N. Radishchev Museum. For the first time in Russia in the 1990s, she initiated and organized a set of measures to recreate functioning farms, components of a noble estate of the 19th century, on the territory of the Tarkhany Museum-Reserve (cleaning and stocking ponds, repairing gardens, restoring bee farms, grasslands, etc.). In 1998–2000, under her leadership, a fundamental renewal of the manor house was carried out with the restoration of its internal architecture. She is the author of publications on the problems of museum studies, Lermontov studies, local history in the regional and Russian press, a catalog of funds.

Awards and titles

Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR Honoured Cultural Worker of the RSFSR (russian: Заслуженный работник культуры РСФСР) was an honorary title given by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Rep ...

; *

Order of Friendship of Peoples The Order of Friendship of Peoples (russian: oрден Дружбы народов, translit=orden Druzhby narodov) was an order of the Soviet Union, and was awarded to persons (including non-citizens), organizations, enterprises, military unit ...

(USSR, 1980); * Gold medal of

VDNKh VDNKh may refer to: * The name of the exhibition centers in former Soviet Republics ** VDNKh (Russia), known as All-Russia Exhibition Center in 1992–2014 ** National Complex Expocenter of Ukraine (formerly "VDNH of the Ukrainian SSR") ** Exhibi ...

(USSR, 1982); * Order of Honour (Russia, 2008). *

(2014). *

Order of Alexander Nevsky The Order of Alexander Nevsky ( ''orden Alexandra Nevskogo'') is an order of merit of the Russian Federation named in honour of saint Alexander Nevsky (1220–1263) and bestowed to civil servants for twenty years or more of highly meritorious se ...

(Russia, 2020).Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 7, 2020 No. 755 "On awarding state awards of the Russian Federation"
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Literary works

* "And an incomprehensible holy beauty breathes in them." Penza, 1995. * Museum-reserve "Tarkhany". Guide. Saratov, 1996 (co-authored).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Melnikova, Tamara Directors of museums in Russia Penza State University alumni 1944 births Living people People from Khmelnytskyi Oblast Russian women curators Women museum directors

Biography

State Lermontov Museum – Reserve "Tarkhany Tarkhany ( rus, Тарха́ны, p=tɐˈrxanɨ) is a Writer's house museum in a Russian estate where the Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) spent his childhood and was buried. The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is loc ..."

Awards and titles

Literary works

References

State Lermontov Museum – Reserve "
Tarkhany Tarkhany ( rus, Тарха́ны, p=tɐˈrxanɨ) is a Writer's house museum in a Russian estate where the Romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) spent his childhood and was buried. The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is loc ...
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