Yesterday, June 22, 2009, a new exhibit called "Pro domo mea" was opened at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House. Named with a line from Akhmatova’s “Poem with No Hero,” the exhibit is dedicated to two jubilees: Anna Akhmatova’s 120^th birthday and the 20^th anniversary of the museum. The exhibit presents paintings, graphic works, theater costumes, and dolls from the funds of the Anna Akhmatova Museum, the State Russian Museum, the Museum of Theater and Music Arts, the Demmeni Puppet Theater’s Museum and the Alexandrinsky Theater’s Museum. The latter provided the costume of Polichinello, a character from the second episode of Vs. Meyerhold’s performance “The Masquerade” (1917) created after A.Y. Golovin’s sketch. This very masquerade character became one of the principle character of Anna Akhmatova’s “Poem with No Hero.” Raised above the noisy crowd of masks and dressed in a motley masquerade costume, Polichinello looks like a ghost of the epoch gone forever; he appears in the poem several times, but it has been never mentioned anywhere what image Anna Akhmatova had in mind. Exhibit curator Arkady Ippolitov had quite unexpectedly identified Policinello with the character of the “Poem with No Hero” after he compared Golovin’s sketch and the costume kept in the funds of the Russian Drama Museum of the Alexandrinsky Theater.