The stories of two main playwrights at the turn of the century sound here like a lively conversation - with arguments, pauses, and hidden lines from their plays. The exhibition is curated to show how personal relationships and theater reflected each other and over time changed the meaning of familiar lines. The exhibition is structured as a series of dialogues and polylogues: the visitor seems to eavesdrop on conversations between characters, contemporaries, and the authors themselves. Through letters, memories, and documentary details, it reveals how the relationship between the two writers changed - from curiosity and support to tense disagreements. This method of presentation makes the museum narrative resemble a stage, where each testimony acts as a line. A separate layer consists of echoes hidden in their plays. In familiar scenes, unexpected rhymes of intonations, motifs, and situations are discovered: one line resonates in another, and a debate about a person and time turns into a debate about theater. At the core of the project is the history of literary memory itself. The materials help to see why important dates and anniversary occasions become an opportunity to reread the classics and hear them not as a school canon, but as interlocutors whose questions still resonate. The exhibition allows visitors to trace these connections step by step and leave the hall with the feeling that familiar texts have become closer and more substantial. The exhibition will showcase photographs, books, documents, graphic items, and personal belongings of the playwrights from the collection of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after Vladimir Ivanovich Dal.