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The Slovo Building: An Address of Literature and of Its End

The Slovo Building: An Address of Literature and of Its End

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The Slovo Building: An Address of Literature and of Its End

Kharkiv Literature Museum27 October 2025 — 26 December 2025Харківський літературний музей

A co-operative the writers built for themselves. In plan it forms the letter S; its residents were taken away over several years, and the lists survived better than the manuscripts.

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A Housing Co-operative as a Literary Form

The writers settled together deliberately — and it changed what they wrote.

The Letter S Is Visible Only from Above

From the street the shape cannot be read — and contemporaries never saw it.

How the Lists of Residents Were Compiled

Three sources that disagree with one another, and the rule for choosing between them.

A Photograph of the Entrance, Taken by a Neighbour

A 1934 photograph from a private archive — the only one showing the apartment doors.

The Slovo Building: An Exhibition About an Address, Not About People

The building's plan, photographs of its entrances and year-by-year lists of residents.

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