Kuzma Chorny Literary Museum

Timkovichi is one of the oldest settlements of the Kopylsky district, which are located 25 kilometers from Nesvizh, and have a rich history. According to a beautiful legend, the name Timkovichi comes from the name of Timka-a famous hero who once lived here, helped the poor and weak.

Timkovichi was first mentioned in 1499 in a judicial charter issued by Grand Duke Alexander to Prince Semyon Mikhailovich Olelkovich. Over the years, the owners Timkovichi was Hodkovice, Sapieha, Polubinski, Radziwill.

The future writer spent his childhood and youth in Timkovichi. Here he graduated from a two-class school, worked in the department of public education and taught.

Kuzma Chorny grew up and was brought up among ordinary people of manual labor, for whom a piece of bread and a linen shirt alone for a year were considered great happiness. With these people he was connected with all his life and creativity. Therefore, the Belarusian people remember him and honor his memory. This is evidenced by the museum, built in 1962 by teachers and students of the Timkovichi Secondary School, under the leadership of the former school director, Honored School Teacher of the BSSR Z. I. Romanenko. At first, it was a school, and in 1993 it was given the status of a state one and a new escposition was created. It is located in five halls and comprehensively reveals the creative personality of Kuzma Chorny – a novelist, publicist, playwright, pamphleteer.

The escort of the artistic design of the halls were the drawings of the writer himself, which are organically combined with the documentary part of the exhibition and help to emotionally reveal the world of the author's experiences. In the halls of the museum, you can see Kuzma Chorny's personal belongings, photos from the family album, his manuscripts and books in different languages of the world, read lines from his diary, and also hear his voice recorded on magnetic tape.

Everyone who wants to spend a pleasant and useful time, the Literary Museum of Kuzma Chorny invites you to the quest. The curious and curious will be able to discover the pages from the life of the famous writer, get to know his work of the 20-30s of the XX century. During the quest, you will be able to see the book, signed for the first time by the famous pseudonym of the author, see the first, still "Molodnyakov" collections of K. Cherny, as well as unique photos. Interesting in the quest will be the solution of the intrigue, why the same book of the writer is signed by two authors: Kuzma Chorny (1933) and Vladimir Dubovka (1966)

You know what flannelgraph? Visit the Literary Museum of Kuzma Chorny and you will be told and shown. The Museum has a theater flannelgraph which participants were local residents. If you are lucky enough to get there in time, you will become a spectator of this act.