One day, when his uncle forgot the accordion at his brother's house, he came back to find it the next morning and surprisingly found his seven-year-old nephew playing folk melodies, without a single mistake.
Pushkin managed to collect 262 musical instruments, among which were: violins, guitars, bayans, accordions, balalaika, and piano.
His excellence and expertise with musical instruments is such that he in order not to wake his home, made a device that helped gently cover the strings to mute the sounds.
[4] In 1986, Evgeny Nikolayevich presented his collection to Volgograd, putting forward the condition that only members of the Pushkin's family can work in the museum.
He started excursions with a quote from The Great Soviet encyclopedia about the nature of sound as a physical phenomenon, and then began the story of his collection, showing individual exhibits.