About the Museum Founder

Uli Zislin was born in Moscow and came to the USA in 1996.
In 1997, he founded the museum in the Greater Washington area and opened it to visitors.
Mr. Zislin is:
• a poet and writer - three of his poetry books were published in 1992, 1996, and 2000, and two books of prose were published in 2008 and 2009;
• a collector (since 1978),
• songwriter (since 1949),
• song performer (in Russia, the US, France, Canada, Georgia, and Israel);
• an organizer and host of the first Moscow festival (1994-1995 season) and All-American festival (2002-2003 season) of the songs based on Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems;
• an initiator of the Alley of Russian Poets and Composers in Washington, DC, and Russian book collection in Rockville Memorial Library, MD;
• an author of more 200 publications in journals and newspapers in the USA, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Israel (since 1996).
• an author of the idea of creating «The American Museum of the full Russian Culture » for the American public at the large.