There are museums and monuments of all Russian writers at home. Literary museums

One of the first capital literary museums appeared in Moscow in 1928, and its opening was timed to coincide with the writer’s next birthday. What’s interesting is that it wasn’t even an anniversary year - it was 107 years since Dostoevsky’s birth. The museum is located in the building of the former Mariinsky apartment for the poor, in the northern wing, where the future famous author spent his childhood, from 1823 to 1837. The street itself received its modern name in 1954; before that it was called Novaya Bozhedomka. An interesting fact: during the entire period of its existence, no changes occurred in the room; even the ceilings remained in the same form as they were during Dostoevsky’s life. But the interior decoration was recreated based on the memoirs of Dostoevsky’s younger brother, where he described everything in detail. The museum's memorial items include bronze candelabra, portraits, a bookcase and a sofa table. Also in one of the rooms there is a sofa that Dostoevsky purchased in 1866 in Moscow, a desk, a Gospel gift from the wives of the Decembrists, business cards, an ink set and much more.

Memorial apartment of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

In a small and bright house on Old Arbat, the sun of Russian poetry and Natalya Goncharova lived for a little more than four months, but this was enough to leave a memory for centuries. And although the young people rented an apartment here on the second floor, the exhibition was located on two floors and occupied the entire area of ​​the house. The setting of that honeymoon has not been preserved, but the staff of the institution tried to do everything possible to accurately convey the atmosphere. On the ground floor you can get acquainted with the architectural appearance of Moscow in the 19th century, see materials about Pushkin’s relationship with publishers and other writers, and even find out how the bachelor party went, who was at the wedding, and what documents the young couple signed. On the second floor, where elements of ancient decor have been preserved, you can visit the hall where Pushkin and Goncharova held their first family ball, and the room of the young spouses. In the center of the room there is a desk at which the poet wrote his works, and in the next room there is a table at which his young wife did needlework. There are also watercolor portraits of the newlyweds and rare original works by the famous engraver Nikolai Utkin.

Memorial apartment of Andrei Bely

Not far from the Pushkin Museum, just around the corner, there is another famous memorial apartment where Boris Bugaev (real name of the father of Russian symbolism Andrei Bely) was born. The poet and critic spent his childhood and school years here and graduated from university. Many symbolists often visited the Bugaevs' neighbors, among whom were Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Valery Bryusov and Zinaida Gippius, and friendship with them predetermined the poet's future fate. By the way, the pseudonym Andrei Bely also appeared within these walls. In 1906, Bely left the house; later, communal apartments and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were located here. Only in the late eighties the apartment was transferred to the literary museum, and in 2000 the Andrei Bely Museum appeared here. The memorial apartment occupies five rooms. They will contain things related to the poet’s youth, an exhibition telling the story of his mother, and exhibits dedicated to the poet’s muses occupy a special place. In the former dining room, Bely’s literary heritage is located, and in the living room, musical evenings and creative meetings are still held in the living room, just as when the Bugaevs lived here.

House-Museum of V.L. Pushkin on Staraya Basmannaya

A cozy wooden mansion appeared on Staraya Basmannaya in 1819, and a memorial plaque on the facade reports that Alexander Pushkin visited here. In fact, this building was built to be rented out, and Vasily Pushkin was one of the tenants from 1822 to 1830. And although the mansion changed owners several times and was rebuilt, today there is a house-museum named after a relative of the great writer. After a comprehensive scientific restoration of the building in 2012-2013, its planning structure was restored as of the first third of the 19th century, and the interiors were recreated according to comprehensive studies of the same period. Serious work was required to improve the ground floor, where the lobby, wardrobe, museum ticket office and technical services are now located. Based on the surviving fragments and samples, the floors and walls, doors and mezzanines were restored on the main floor, and the fence and gate were made using analogies and old photographs. In their work, the masters made maximum use of ancient technologies, but at the same time equipped the building with modern engineering systems and equipment, including climate control and an audio guide system.

Meyerhold Apartment Museum
Detailed exhibition about the work and life of Vsevolod Meyerhold

Next door to Vsevolod Meyerhold, in a constructivist building of 1928 on Bryusov Lane, lived the actors Anatoly Ktorov, Sofya Giatsintova, the Scriabin sisters and the architect of this house himself. The surroundings that can be seen here today were created according to the model of 1934. The restoration of the layout and the search for things was carried out, among other things, by the granddaughter of the theater director and actor Maria Valentey. She initiated the creation of the museum and did everything possible to return the apartment. Thanks to the foundation of the Meyerhold State Theater, the museum now has unique exhibits, which are still used in exhibitions dedicated to the life and work of the master, as well as issues of theater and culture. In 2009, another 500 special exhibits appeared here, which formed the exhibition “Meyerhold - Actor. An Actor at the Meyerhold Theater,” which allows you to immerse yourself in the topic of the relationship between director and actor.

Museum of M. A. Bulgakov (“Bad Apartment”) 12+

“Bad Apartment” officially opened on Bolshaya Sadovaya in March 2007. It is this address that appears in the novel “The Master and Margarita”; Bulgakov himself lived here at one time. The thirty-year-old writer came here in 1921 and occupied a small room in a communal apartment. In it, he wrote several works that glorified both the house and its inhabitants: “Moonshine Lake”, “Zoyka’s Apartment”, “Psalm” and others. Today, Bulgakov’s heroes greet guests in the museum’s courtyard: not far from the entrance stand the figures of Behemoth and Koroviev. And inside you can see the Hippopotamus in person: a huge black cat waits for visitors at the threshold and is not at all afraid of people. As for the exhibition, it begins in the wardrobe. Antique suitcases, suitcases, hats and umbrellas, a collection of hooks and hangers open the door to the apartment’s mysterious past. But the most important hanger is hard to miss. It hangs higher than the others, right under the ceiling, and it was on it that Bulgakov once hung his coats and hats. In the Blue Office, based on the memories of relatives and friends, the craftsmen recreated the image of the writer’s last office in Nashchokinsky Lane. Here you can see an 11-volume edition of the novel “The Golden Ass” by the ancient Roman writer Ampuleius, a piano, the wardrobe of Bulgakov’s wife, a radio, a secretary with a huge number of secret compartments, behind which the writer worked on “The Master and Margarita”. In one of the main rooms of the museum, Bulgakov's room, you can feel the atmosphere that surrounded the writer when he was working on his works. He even described the view from the window in “Secret Friend” and “Theatrical Novel”. The exhibition also includes collections of classics, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and one of the most valuable exhibits is a typescript of the play “Molière” with the autograph of the author. The hottest part of the apartment and an inexhaustible source of images for Bulgakov was the kitchen. Here future characters of cult works communicated and were born, and among the exhibits you can easily find that same primus stove and an enlarged copy of the photograph of Annushka-Chuma, a constant participant in Bulgakov’s works. One can talk endlessly about the Bulgakov Memorial Museum. But this is best done by professional guides.

Museum-apartment of Gleb Krzhizhanovsky

The memorial apartment of academician Gleb Krzhizhanovsky is located in a 19th-century merchant mansion with Art Nouveau interiors. Here the scientist lived and worked from 1913 to 1959, meetings were held with Vladimir Lenin on the project of electrification of Russia. Among the exhibits in the original interiors of the museum-apartment of the vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences are furniture, household items, personal belongings of the power engineer and archival documents: a chest for household items, outerwear, a briefcase and canes. All artifacts are placed as they were during the scientist’s lifetime, and perfectly convey the atmosphere of a bygone era.

Burganov House 0+

The creations of sculptor Alexander Burganov can be seen in various cities of Russia and abroad and in major museums around the world. But the Burganov House museum is the only one. The sculptor independently created the architectural and artistic composition and special scenography of the building space. Inside, in addition to the exhibition of his works, there is a creative workshop where masterpieces continue to be born. It is here that you can best feel the artist’s world and the atmosphere in which his creations appear. The exhibition also includes works by Burganov’s students and friends, exhibits from the master’s personal collection: ancient classics, folk art, art of African and Western European peoples and unique engravings.

House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva 0+

The house where the Marina Tsvetaeva Museum is located appeared in 1862 and is still considered an excellent example of a cozy Russian estate. The non-standard interior layout is characterized by small rooms, narrow corridors and numerous staircases. The poetess settled here with her husband and daughter in 1914. Three years later, the family has a second child, Tsvetaeva’s husband leaves for Rostov, where the volunteer army is gathering, and soon the new authorities turn the house into a hostel. The poetess has to huddle with her daughters in the kitchen. After things get really bad, she sends the children to an orphanage, where one of them dies. With her surviving child, Tsvetaeva goes abroad, and the house finally becomes a communal apartment and begins to collapse. In 1979, the dilapidated building was planned to be demolished, but one of the local residents saved it. She simply refuses to move out and is the only one holding the line in the emergency building. Community members came to her aid. Together they managed to save the estate, where in 1990 the house-museum of Marina Tsvetaeva was registered, and the invincible defender of the house became its first director. The museum exhibition includes books, photographs, letters and manuscripts by Tsvetaeva. The historical interior in the living quarters has been restored, a separate room is dedicated to the poetess’s husband, the White Guard Sergei Efron. Also in the Tsvetaeva house-museum is the Archive of the Russian Abroad with manuscripts of Adamovich, Kuprin, Bunin and other writers.

Memorial House-Museum of Academician S. P. Korolev

Academician Sergei Korolev received this house from the country in 1959 because, under his leadership, the first artificial Earth satellite overcame gravity. The scientist lived in the same house until his last day. Actually, he lived here for only seven years. Nine years after his death, a memorial museum was opened in the mansion. The exhibition is based on a collection donated by the academician’s widow to the state: Korolev’s student notes, autographed books by famous writers, family photos and portraits, paintings donated by artists. An important part of the exhibition is documentary archives, some of which were declassified relatively recently. Some of the drawings are dated 1936, when Korolev was 29 years old. The interior and exterior of the museum have been recreated down to the smallest detail. Here is a copy of the monument “To the Stars” with the autographs of the first cosmonauts, and the fireplace that Yuri Gagarin lit. The atmosphere of the house allows you to learn about Korolev not only as a famous scientist, but also as a person.

Memorial Museum of A.N. Scriabin

The creator of light music spent the last years of his life in Moscow on Nikolopeskovsky Lane, where today the Alexander Scriabin Museum is located. The composer was friends with many famous people, so at different times Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Boris Pasternak and Vsevolod Meyerhold visited his house. In this house, the pianist created three symphonies for piano and orchestra, “Poem of Ecstasy” and “Prometheus”. Shortly before his death, Scriabin planned to combine music, color, smells, movements and even architecture. But these plans were not destined to come true. Three years after the composer's death, in 1918, his apartment received the status of a national cultural treasure, and in 1922 a memorial museum was opened here. Everything in it was preserved down to the smallest detail, and the greatest interest is the musician’s office with unique exhibits: a Bechstein piano, a library and a color light apparatus, an important invention of Scriabin.

Museum-workshop of Dmitry Nalbandyan

Dmitry Nalbandyan moved to an apartment on Tverskaya (then the street was called Gorky) in 1956. Demyan Bedny, Ilya Erenburg and Mikhail Romm lived in the same house; the studios of the Kukryniks, Nikolai Zhukov, Fyodor Konstantinov and other artists were located here. In the early nineties, Nalbandian bequeathed part of the collection of his works to the city on the condition that they would not leave the walls of his workshop, and in 1993 the animator and caricaturist died. Today, the memorial museum named after him recreates the space of life and creativity of the Soviet era as it was then. The museum-workshop’s collection includes more than 1,500 works by Nalbandyan: paintings, sketches, drawings and photographs.

Vysotsky's house on Taganka

After the death of Vladimir Vysotsky, it turned out that his fans were left with a huge number of unique photographs, recordings and impressions from personal meetings with him. The Taganka Theater was simply inundated with letters from the artist’s fans. All that remained was to create an initiative group that would start collecting funds and organizing the opening of the future museum. All this took more than ten years, and in 1992 the museum was finally opened. “Vysotsky’s House” can hardly be called a museum in its pure form. This is a whole cultural and scientific center, where more than a thousand exhibits are exhibited and educational and cultural events are regularly held. Garik Sukachev, Alexander Sklyar and Elena Kamburova perform in the theater and concert hall and stage performances based on the works of Vysotsky. The scientific library also has a bookshop.

Stanislavsky House Museum 0+

In the house on Leontyevsky Lane, where the house-museum of Konstantin Stanislavsky is now located, the great theater figure lived and worked for seventeen years. He moved here with his family in the twenties, and was especially attracted to the music hall with its ideal acoustics. Stanislavsky and his wife occupied the second floor of the mansion, divided into an opera studio and a living area with a bedroom, dining room and office. The director staged Eugene Onegin in the Opera Hall, wrote books of reflection in the bedroom, and held rehearsals with the actors in his office. Next to the office there is a dining room, where ancient portraits of the great theatergoer’s relatives hang. During the restoration, everything was restored so thoroughly that the apartment looks as if Stanislavsky was still living in it: antique parquet flooring, painted ceilings, majestic lampshades and even a creaky wooden staircase.

Museum "P. I. Tchaikovsky and Moscow"

In this house, in an apartment on the second floor of the outbuilding, Pyotr Tchaikovsky lived from September 1872 to November 1873, and the museum in its place opened in May 2007. The Russian capital appears in its name, because it was the Moscow period that became decisive in the fate of the master. At this time, his creative personality developed, he met friends and like-minded people. The museum exhibition is based on personal belongings and photographs of the musician, engravings, lithographs, graphics, drawings, cartoons and letters. Guests can also view autographs, scores and literary manuscripts. At the same time, the exhibition space is filled with the music of Tchaikovsky himself, making it easy to trace almost the entire process of creating masterpieces, from idea to implementation.

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The first literary museums arose as memorial ones. Personal belongings, buildings, interior decoration, furnishings have an amazing property - when telling about people who lived, they convey the flavor of the past. Therefore, descendants sought to preserve the writer’s house, office, manuscripts, books, and household items unchanged. Any item entering a museum loses its properties as an everyday item and is stored as a witness to history.

Modern literary museums also act as research institutions, collecting bits and pieces of information and objects, preparing exhibitions related to the life and work of writers and poets. In addition, literary museums organize lectures and arrange meetings for visitors with prominent figures of literature and art.

Based on the nature of their activities, literary museums are divided into historical-literary and literary-memorial. Historical-literary studies collect and analyze materials that reveal the development of literature from a historical perspective, and study the theory of literature. In Russia, these are the State Literary Museum in Moscow - GLM and the Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature in St. Petersburg - Pushkin House. Historical research is conducted here, scientific sessions and conferences are held. The results of scientific research are published in collections, individual works, catalogs, descriptions of manuscripts and personal libraries of writers (for example, the Yearbook of the manuscript department of the Pushkin House). In addition, there are complex museums dedicated to both literature and art, for example, the Museum of Armenian Literature and Art in Yerevan, the Museum of Azerbaijani Literature and Art. Nizami in Baku, etc.
Literary memorial museums include memorial complexes - buildings, apartments, estates, personal belongings of writers, as well as manuscripts, autographs, documents, lifetime publications - and a literary exhibition telling about the life and creative path of the writer. In addition to memorial objects, the exhibitions use visual materials - photographs, paintings, engravings. The Lermontov Museum in Tarkhany, the Chekhov Museums in Moscow, Taganrog, Melikhovo in the Moscow Region and Yalta were built according to this principle. Museums also make copies of objects located in other repositories and acquire things characteristic of a particular era. Together with the originals, such objects make up museum funds, using which museum workers try to reconstruct living conditions and to reproduce the atmosphere in which the writer lived and worked.

There is another direction in the literary and museum business - museums of literary heroes. These are the Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street, the Madame Bovary Museum in France, etc. In our country, at the Vyra station, the Museum of the stationmaster Vyrin from Pushkin’s Belkin's Tales– the Yamsky yard with all the buildings was restored, in the caretaker’s room there are household items from the early 19th century.

Increasingly, literary museums are adding the phrase “cultural center” to their name. And, as centers of culture, they promote the activities of literary associations, poetry circles, organize literary and musical concerts, poetry evenings and presentations of new books within their walls.

The desire to perpetuate the memory of beloved writers and open museums dedicated to them first appeared in the 19th century. In Great Britain it was associated with the names of Walter Scott and William Shakespeare. In Russia the idea of ​​creation. The literary museum first began to be discussed in 1837 after the tragic death of A.S. Pushkin. However, only in 1879 was a library opened at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, transformed in 1889 into the Pushkin Museum, and in 1908 the Pushkin Museum was opened in the village. Mikhailovsky.

Museums dedicated to A.S. Pushkin

The most extensive network of historical and memorial literary museums in Russia is dedicated to Pushkin. The main memorial sites associated with his name are the Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg, the Mikhailovsky Museum-Reserve and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

On the basis of the anniversary Pushkin exhibition of 1937, opened in Moscow on the premises of the Historical Museum, the Pushkin Literary Museum in St. Petersburg was founded in 1938. In 1949–1951 it was located in the Alexander Palace in Pushkin. In 1951–1963 - in the Hermitage, where its exhibition occupied 17 halls. Historical documents, memorial items, household items from the Pushkin era, editions of the poet’s works, and works of 19th-century masters were presented. A new museum exposition was opened in 1967 next to the Lyceum in 27 halls of the former Church wing of the Catherine Palace in Pushkin.

Naryshkin Chambers of the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery

(Petrovka St. 28). The GLM exposition is displayed here Spiritual quests of Russian writers.
Cm. Naryshkin chambers

House-Museum of S.T. Aksakov

In the memorial House-Museum of S.T. Aksakov, (Sivtsev Vrazhek lane, 30a) there is an exhibition of the GLM Almanac of Literary Life 1840–1989.

House-Museum of V.Ya.Bryusov

The Bryusov House Museum (Mira Ave., 30) houses the GLM exhibition Russian Literature of the Silver Age.
Cm. House-museum of V.Ya. Bryusov in Moscow

House of I.S. Ostroukhov

(Trubnikovsky lane 17). Here is the exhibition of the GLM Russian Literature of the 20th Century.
Cm. Ostroukhov's House

House-Museum of A.I. Herzen

(Sivtsev Vrazhek, 27). Here, from 1843 to 1846, before leaving abroad, A.I. Herzen lived with his family.
Cm. House-Museum of A.I. Herzen

(Dostoevsky St., 2). Here, in a government apartment at the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, Dostoevsky was born in 1821.
Cm. Museum-apartment of F.M. Dostoevsky

House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov

(Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya st., 6). A.P. Chekhov lived in this brick two-story mansion from 1886 to 1890.
Cm. House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov

Memorial office of A.V. Lunacharsky

(Money Lane 9). The People's Commissar of Education of the first Soviet government lived here in 1924–1933.

Museum-apartment of A.N. Tolstoy

(Spiridonovka St. 2) is the writer’s creative laboratory, reflecting his diverse interests and hobbies. The collection of female portraits 16–20 is adjacent to eastern temple incense burners, the Pinocchio doll and the Frog Princess are adjacent to battle paintings and a portrait of Peter I.

House-Museum of B.L. Pasternak in Peredelkino

B. Pasternak lived in this house from 1939 until the end of his life in 1960.
Cm. House-Museum of B.L. Pasternak in Peredelkino

House-Museum of K.I. Chukovsky in Peredelkino,

in which he lived from 1939 until the end of his life in 1969. At first it was an unofficial, home museum, and only in 1994 it became part of the State Museum of Art.

in Khamovniki (Lva Tolstoy, 21) - the original estate of the writer.
Cm. Museum-Estate of Leo Tolstoy in Moscow

Leo Tolstoy Museum in Yasnaya Polyana

(Tula region). Here L.N. Tolstoy was born and lived for over 50 years.

(M. Nikitskaya 6/2) - a branch of the Gorky Museum at the Institute of World Literature on Povarskaya.
Gorky museums are also open in his homeland in Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan.
Cm. Museum-apartment of M. Gorky in Moscow

Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky in Moscow

is currently located in Lubyansky Proezd 3/6, in the apartment where the poet committed suicide. Previously, the Mayakovsky Museum was opened in a memorial apartment in the former Gendrikov lane, now lane. Mayakovsky, where the poet lived in 1926–1930 with his friends L. and O. Brik.
Cm. Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow

Museum of S.A. Yesenin in Moscow

(B. Strochenovsky lane, 24, building 2) is located in a two-story wooden house where Yesenin lived in 1911–1918.
Cm. Museum of S.A. Yesenin in Moscow

Museum-apartment of M.I. Tsvetaeva in Moscow

in Borisoglebsky lane. - the house where she lived for 8 years before leaving abroad.

GLM also oversees several house-museums in the Moscow region - the Prishvin House-Museum in the village of Dudino, Odintsovo district, and two house-museums in the writers' village of Peredelkino.

St. Petersburg museums.

Since its founding, St. Petersburg has played a significant role in the literary life of Russia. Pushkin's Petersburg (the area of ​​the Moika, the Winter Palace and St. Isaac's Square with the Bronze Horseman, the Petersburg of Dostoevsky (the area of ​​Sennaya Square and the Griboyedov Canal), Gogol, and in the 20th century - the Petersburg of Akhmatova and Daniil Kharms. The city on the Neva carefully preserves the signs and symbols of these cultural layers, you can travel through them endlessly.

Museum-apartment of F.M. Dostoevsky

in St. Petersburg (Kuznechny lane, 5, apt. 10) opened in 1971.
Cm. Museum-apartment of F.M. Dostoevsky

Museum-apartment of N.A. Nekrasov

in St. Petersburg on Liteiny, where he had been renting an apartment for the last 20 years. The editorial offices of the magazines “Sovremennik” and “Otechestvennye zapiski” were also located here. The exhibition tells about the life and work of the poet, his editorial activities. The museum has an extensive collection of the poet's personal belongings.

Pushkin House

– Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Makarova embankment, 4).

Museum-apartment of A.A. Blok

in St. Petersburg (Dekabristov, 57). The last 9 years of Blok’s life and work are connected with the house on the former Ofitserskaya.

A.A. Blok Museum-Reserve in Shakhmatovo.

The house was rebuilt according to surviving documents. Opened in 1984, the process of accumulating funds is actively underway. The exhibition contains authentic personal belongings of the Beketov family, a large number of photographs, visual materials, lifetime publications, letters, manuscripts and autographs.

(Sheremetevsky Palace, Fontanka, 34). Opened in 1989 in the southern wing of the Sheremetev Palace in the 18th century. Akhmatova and her husband N.N. Punin lived here from the mid-20s until 1952.
Cm. House-Museum of A.A. Akhmatova – Fountain House

Nabokov Museum

in St. Petersburg (B. Morskaya, 27). Vladimir Nabokov was born in this house, and the first 18 years of his life passed here. The museum opened in 1993. It mainly displays photographs, part of the collection of butterflies collected by Nabokov and donated by Harvard University, and some personal items. Exhibitions and concerts are held.

House-estate of V.V. Nabokov in the village. Rozhdestveno.

For a long time, the literary and historical museum, opened in the former Nabokov estate near St. Petersburg, did not have a single authentic item. But luck smiled - a local resident brought the employees an album of family photographs of the Nabokovs found in the attic.

Museum of M.M. Zoshchenko

in St. Petersburg (M. Konyushennaya, 4/2, apt. 119) The memorial office of Mikhail Zoshchenko has been restored in a small apartment. Household items, books and manuscripts of the writer are on display.

near Vsevolozhsk - known as the Olenin estate.
Cm. Literary and Art Museum in Priyutino

Crimean literary museums.

Crimean literary addresses include the Chekhov House-Museum in Yalta and its branch in Gurzuf, the Pushkin Museum in Gurzuf, and the Tsvetaev Sisters Museum in Feodosia.

- a monument of the Silver Age. It was built by Voloshin and his mother over 10 years.
Cm. House-Museum of M.A. Voloshin in Koktebel

Literary and Memorial Museum of Alexander Green

(Feodosia, Gallery, 10) - he lived in this modest one-story whitewashed house from 1924 to 1928.

The creation of new literary museums is a continuous process. In Peredelkino in 1999, the Okudzhava Museum was opened in the house where he lived in recent years. In the Moscow region in Shakhmatovo, on the basis of surviving documents, the house of Alexander Blok was rebuilt in every detail.

There is no Gogol Museum in Russia. In his homeland in Ukraine, in the village of Vasilyevka near Poltava, through the efforts of the literary critic Zolotussky, the only museum of the writer was opened. In Russia, only in the library named after. Gogol in Moscow on Nikitsky Boulevard - in the house where Gogol burned the 2nd volume of the novel Dead Souls and soon died, there is a small exhibition.

In Moscow in 2007, Russia's first M. A. Bulgakov Museum was opened in the Patriarch's Ponds area at the address where, according to the novel, Woland lived, Bolshaya Sadovaya, 10, apt. 50. The museum was created on the basis of collections donated to Moscow, consisting of furniture and things from the writer’s last apartment in Nashchokinsky Lane.

There is also a Bulgakov museum in Kyiv on Andreevsky Spusk, where the Turbin family allegedly lived. This is a museum of both Bulgakov and his heroes.

The Vysotsky Center-Museum was opened in Moscow on Taganka. The museum contains documents, photographs, audio and video recordings. The museum operates in permanent exhibition mode.

In addition to those listed above, the largest literary museums in the capital include the museums of Leo Tolstoy, Gorky and Mayakovsky, which have their own branches in other cities and villages associated with the biographies of writers.

Foreign literary museums.

Among foreign literary museums, the Schiller museums are widely known - in Leipzig, Dresden and Weimar, Goethe - in Weimar, Düsseldorf (Germany). The Hemingway Museum in Cuba, in the suburbs of Havana, is very popular. In the USA, museums have been opened for Hemingway - in Key West and Oak Park, where he was born, as well as Edgar Allan Poe - in New York, Baltimore, Richmond, Philadelphia; Emily Dickinson - in Amherst, Eugene O'Neill - in Wethersfield and Danville, Harriet Beecher Stowe - in Hartford and Cincinnati, Melville - in Arrowhead, Jack London in Oakland, John Steinbeck - in Pacific Grove and Salinas, Longfellow - in Cambridge and Wordsworth and Longfellow - in Portland, Massachusetts; Mark Twain - in Stoutsville, Hanniball and Hartford, O. Henry - in San Antonio and Austin, Robert Louis Stevenson - in Monterey, Sarah Lake and St. Helena, California; Sinclair Lewis - in Sauk Center , Minnesota, Walt Whitman - in Camden and New York, Scott Fitzgerald in Montgomery, etc.

In the UK, tourist routes to literary places are popular. For example, you can go to places associated with the life and work of Dickens, Jane Austen and Shakespeare. Certain areas and cities of England are closely connected with life or are the setting for the works of certain writers.

In London, this is the restored Globe - Shakespeare's theater of the 16th century; Covent Garden is the setting for the works of not only Dickens, but also Bernard Shaw; Dickens' house in Bloomsbury, where Oliver Twist and The Pickwick Papers were written. The Museum of the literary hero, Sherlock Holmes, is open at 221b Baker Street. The county of Winchester-Wessex is associated with the name of Jane Austen. This is her home in Chawton, her grave in Winchester and Bath, the place where she stayed for a long time. In Bath there is also a museum of Dickens, who lived here for a long time. Kent and east Sussex - the setting of Virginia Woolf and Henry James, as well as the setting of Conan Doyle's novels - his grave is in Minstead. Dartmoor and the coast (Devon) is associated with events in the detective and mystery stories of Daphne de Murier, Agatha Christie (her home in Torquay is also located here) and the place where the events of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles took place. Bristol is the city where Stevenson first “saw” Long John Silver. And in Swansea, near Cardiff, you can visit the center of the Welshman Dylan Thomas. and Simone de Beauvoir. They spent a lot of time in the cafe. The habit of working in cafes is typically Parisian; at one time, young Ilya Ehrenburg also contracted it here. In Paris, the name of George Sand is associated with the Museum of Romantic Life at 16 Rue Chaptal, where original objects and manuscripts of the writer are stored. Here her neighbor was Father Dumas, who organized noisy festivities. Nearby, in Schaeffer’s salon, “the whole of Paris” gathered weekly, including Turgenev, Ingres, Liszt, Rossini, Renan.

The work of Victor Hugo is reflected in a museum in Paris on the Place des Vosges, a house-museum in the suburb of Villecker on the right bank of the Seine and a museum on the Norman island of Guernsey in the English Channel, where the novel was written Les Miserables. The George Sand Museum-Estate in Nohant is widely known, where Liszt, Chopin, Balzac, Flaubert, Delacroix, Dumas came to visit her, as well as the Algiers Museum, where the writer lived in 1858. Ronsard lived in the castle of the city of Medan in Hamarøy, where he spent his childhood, Andersen-Nexe Museum in Copenhagen, etc.
Among the Nobel laureates in literature in the 20th century. There are many authors from Asia, Africa and Latin America. At the same time, as a rule, in the cultures of these countries, the assessment of the role of the work of national writers in the cultural heritage of the country has not yet been completed, and therefore museums dedicated to the work of individual authors are rare.

Thus, in China, a country of ancient culture, famous for its many literary monuments, the 2000 Nobel laureate, writer Gao Xingjiang, who lives in France, is better known in Europe than in his homeland. In Japan, the country that gave the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. galaxy of significant literary names, the most popular is the Yukio Mishima Museum in Bungaku near Kyoto. The writer died in 1970, and his popularity, including in Europe and America, was significantly influenced by the last “gesture” - hara-kiri, made publicly, in front of a movie camera.

The emergence of literary museums in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America directly depends on how important a role literature and writers are willing to play in their cultural life.

Literary museums continue to play an important and noble role in society - they preserve the memory and tell about the life and work of the best representatives of world and national literature, passing the baton of spiritual heritage to future generations.

Great artists, writers, poets, and musicians lived and worked in Moscow. You can visit these legendary places in Moscow, where wonderful museums have now been created, and plunge into history.

1. Vladimir Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow

The Vladimir Mayakovsky Museum in Moscow is not like all other museums: its facade is made in a postmodern style. Inside, the museum is decorated in a very unusual figurative and plot manner, which corresponds to the spirit of the extraordinary creativity of the poet himself. Walking through its floors and halls of the museum, the visitor feels not just a spectator, but also a participant and co-author of the unfolding action, recreating the model of Mayakovsky’s life path and inner world. There are no glass cases where you can observe exhibits, like in other museums. The space of the house is similar to the Life Labyrinth, the center of which is the memorial room, the so-called “Boat Room”, where the poet committed suicide.
The museum has a cinema hall where you can see films in which Mayakovsky himself starred. The non-standard concept of museum design and the pronounced spirit of a controversial era make the museum unique. That is why the unforgettable impressions received from visiting this place remain with people for many years.

The Mayakovsky Museum is located at: Moscow, Lubyansky proezd, 3/6, building 4

2. Bulgakov’s Apartment Museum in Moscow – “Bad Apartment” No. 50

The Bulgakov Apartment Museum in Moscow consists of eight exhibition halls, which feature interesting exhibitions that allow you to plunge into Bulgakov’s era and discover something new about the author’s personality and his literary heroes. Among them, Bulgakov’s room, “Communal Kitchen”, “Blue Office”, which recreates the furnishings of Bulgakov’s last home in Nashchokinsky Lane, and the editorial office of the newspaper “Gudok”, where the writer worked, are especially noteworthy. Apartment No. 50 is located on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, 10, where several years of the famous writer’s life passed, and where from the early 90s of the last century until the founding of the museum, the Foundation named after. Bulgakov.
It is possible to use the services of a guide who, with his interesting and fascinating story about the house itself and its inhabitants, the great writer and the period of his life in this apartment, will help you more fully experience the local environment, immerse yourself in its atmosphere and get a lot of unforgettable impressions.

3. House-Museum of A. N. Ostrovsky in Moscow

Ostrovsky's house on Malaya Ordynka 9, built at the beginning of the 19th century, is located in Zamoskvorechye - one of the rare places in modern Moscow where the charm and originality of antiquity is still preserved. Around the wooden two-story estate there is a luxurious garden blooming from early spring to mid-autumn. Currently, the house-museum of A.N. Ostrovsky is part of the State Central Theater Museum named after A.A. Bakhrushin. Here you can see posters, photographic portraits of actors, manuscripts, and scenery sketches. The exhibitions in two halls are entirely dedicated to Ostrovsky’s most famous plays “Dowry” and “The Thunderstorm”. In addition to excursions, the Ostrovsky House-Museum hosts one-man performances, organizes creative evenings and meetings with famous theater actors, and celebrates dates related to the life and creative path of the writer-playwright.
Ostrovsky's house is located on Malaya Ordynka building 9

4. House-Museum of A.P. Chekhov in Moscow

The Chekhov House Museum in Moscow is located in a two-story stone outbuilding built in 1874 at 6 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov lived in this house for almost four years, which was a period of rapid creative growth for the writer. It was here that he wrote about a hundred brilliant works, stories and plays.

The exhibition hall features rare posters of performances from Chekhov's times, postcard photographs depicting outstanding actors playing characters in the playwright's plays, programmes, photographs of Chekhov himself among the actors, and reviews of his plays by contemporaries.

The Chekhov House-Museum hosts musical and literary evenings, excursions and lectures for visitors of all ages, and scientific conferences. For elementary school students, interactive classes, matinees and holidays with competitions and performances are organized.

The Chekhov House-Museum is located at 6 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street.

5. House-Museum of Korney Chukovsky in Peredelkino

The house-museum of the greatest dreamer and storyteller, writer, translator and literary critic Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was opened in 1996 in the writer's village of Peredelkino, Moscow region. The Chukovsky Museum is located in a two-story house - the writer's dacha, where he lived for almost thirty years. It is here that many of the well-known works that we remember from childhood were written, as well as books for adults.

The Museum of the Writer Chukovsky is located at: Moscow, Peredelkino, Serafimovicha, 3

Mikhailovskoye is the family estate of the Hannibals in the Pskov region. In 1742, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna granted the “Blackamoor of Peter the Great,” Pushkin’s great-grandfather, Abram Mikhailovich Hannibal, possession of 41 villages on 5,000 acres of land. At that time, these lands were called Mikhailovskaya Bay. In 1781, after the death of the Arab, the lands were divided between his three sons. Osip Abramovich Hannibal, the poet’s grandfather, took possession of the village of Mikhailovskoye. He built a manor house in it, laid out a park with curtains, alleys and flower beds. In 1806, Mikhailovskoye passed to Maria Alekseevna Gannibal, Pushkin’s grandmother. From 1816 to 1836, the estate was owned by the poet’s mother, Nadezhda Osipovna Pushkina.

The young poet first visited here in the summer of 1817 and, as he himself wrote, was fascinated by “rural life, the Russian bathhouse, strawberries, etc., but I didn’t like all this for long.” The next time Pushkin visits Mikhailovskoye is in 1819. And from August 1824 to September 1826, Pushkin was here in exile.

In 1824, police in Moscow opened a letter from Pushkin, where he wrote about his passion for “atheistic teachings.” This was the reason for the poet’s resignation from service on July 8, 1824. He was exiled to his mother's estate. Despite the difficult experiences, the first Mikhailovsky autumn was fruitful for the poet; he read, thought, and worked a lot.

Pushkin completes the poems “Conversation of a Bookseller with a Poet”, “To the Sea”, and the poem “Gypsies”, which he began in Odessa. In the fall of 1824, he resumed work on autobiographical notes, pondered the plot of the folk drama "Boris Godunov", and wrote a comic poem "Count Nulin". In total, the poet created about a hundred works in Mikhailovsky.

In subsequent years, the poet periodically came here to take a break from city life. So, in 1827, Pushkin began the novel “Arap of Peter the Great” here. In 1835, in Mikhailovskoye, Pushkin continued to work on “Scenes from the Times of Knights”, “Egyptian Nights”, and created the poem “I Visited Again”.

In the spring of 1836, Nadezhda Osipovna died after a serious illness. The estate became the property of Pushkin. And after the poet’s death it began to belong to his children.

The turbulent 20th century did not spare Mikhailovsky. In February 1918, Mikhailovskoye and neighboring estates were burned. On March 17, 1922, by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars, Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye and Pushkin's grave were declared protected areas. Buildings were restored on old foundations based on archival documents, paintings and lithographs. During the Great Patriotic War, the estate was occupied by the Germans. The manor buildings were burned again. After the war, restoration of the estate began. Now there is the Memorial Museum-Reserve of A.S. Pushkin.

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Even though it was not the capital of our state either in the “Golden” or in the “Silver” age of Russian literature, Moscow has always remained the home of many greats. Writers and poets worked in rented rooms in narrow alleys, got married in ancient churches, and dedicated their lines to the streets of the Mother See. Descendants make sure that authors who have already stood the test of time are known not only by humanities scholars, but also by the youngest residents of the current capital, its guests, who may be far from the world of literature. It is very important to be familiar with the works of Pushkin, Bulgakov, Tsvetaeva, but it is no less valuable to learn a little more about their lives. Perhaps the decoration and location of the apartment, favorite walking routes, places of meetings and circles will help to better understand certain of their ideas and thoughts. There are almost three dozen writers' museums in Moscow. Among them there are real houses of masters of the Russian word, there are memorial exhibitions, there are simply dedications based on creativity. We have chosen for this review the most significant and interesting ones, although there are others, we are sure that everyone will find something to learn for themselves.

The memorial office of Valery Bryusov was created by the widow after the death of the poet, critic and writer in the house where he lived for fifteen years. He remained here, in the old mansion at number 30 on Prospekt Mira, until his very last days. A few decades later, the building was restored, and in 1999, the Bryusov House Museum in Moscow, a museum of the Silver Age, opened there as a branch of the State Literary Museum.

It is not for nothing that the exhibition now bears such a general name, because it is unique: these are colossal funds of manuscripts, collections and visual documents. Their basis, of course, was Bryusov’s huge library. It contains priceless, rare books by the poet’s contemporaries (with their personal autographs!), almanacs, files of magazines and newspapers from the beginning of that “Silver Age”. The diaries and drafts of Valery Bryusov himself are also presented as exhibits. The widest exhibition is decorated with examples of paintings and graphics by Korovin, Polenov, Sudeikin, Burliuk. Here you can see theatrical sketches of Malevich, Mayakovsky, plaster busts of Tsvetaeva, Yesenin, Pasternak, photographs and cartoons of those years. At the Bryusov House-Museum in Moscow, one exhibition is entirely dedicated to the work of A.S. Pushkina: Valery Yakovlechich, like many prominent writers of the Silver Age, more than once turned to Pushkin’s theme. The historical interior of the owner's office was restored based on the memories of relatives and friends.

Life in this museum is in full swing, almost as it was then, during the development of many literary circles and associations: in addition to thematic excursions, unusual lectures and vibrant musical and poetry evenings are held here.

On the day of the centenary of the birth of the great poetess in 1992, the House-Museum of Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was opened in Borisoglebsky Lane in Moscow. The brightest representative of the Silver Age lived with her family from 1914 to 1922 in a two-story building from the mid-19th century.

Unfortunately, and despite the colossal work of the museum staff and enthusiastic researchers of the poetess’s work, there are not many personal belongings of Tsvetaeva in the collection. Just to be able to survive in the terrible, poor and cold times in post-revolutionary Russia, Marina Ivanovna sold most of her valuables and rarities. It is known that an expensive piano was exchanged for a pound of black flour, and the stove was simply heated with antique furniture, cut into chips. Thank God, Tsvetaeva’s descendants, collectors and caring people from all over the world try to replenish the exhibition from time to time. Among such gifts to the foundation are books of the 19th-20th centuries, family photographs, even personal letters, postcards with autographs and, what is especially valuable, manuscripts, lifetime collections of the poetess, postcards with her autographs. In the house-museum you can see a dressing table, an antique wall mirror, drawings and toys of children, numerous portraits of Tsvetaeva, painted by famous artists of that time - real everyday objects that surrounded the artist. One of the exhibitions is dedicated to the life of her husband, Sergei Efron, and his family.

The strong spirit, excuse the pun, of a courageous woman and her finest poetry lives in this house, as does the atmosphere of that amazing literary and cultural era of which she was a part. Moreover, the museum acts as a cultural and creative center.

The opening of the Sergei Yesenin Museum was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth. In 1995, enthusiastic researchers donated the first collected collection to the city. The Yesenin Museum in Moscow acquired official status already in 1996. The poet’s father, who then worked in the butcher shop of merchant Krylov, lived in the museum building. Alexander Yesenin met young Sergei in 1911, straight from Ryazan here. Here the future great Russian poet was to live for seven years. And this house is the only official place of residence and registration in the capital.

The central “exhibit” of Yesenin’s house in Moscow was an unusually decorated memorial room. It was placed behind a glass wall as a kind of voluminous and informative museum value. The poet’s life and creative path was visualized for visitors. A special exhibition “Yesenin as part of world culture” was also created here. It is interesting that during the excursions, videos are shown, they use the rarest chronicles of the beginning of the last century.

Imagine the beginning of the 19th century and a noisy bachelor party of young Russian nobles, with sparkling punch, creaking boots and clinking glasses, with epigrams and cartoons that made you blush, with fervent laughter. Let's move our “bachelor party” to house No. 53 on Arbat. Why here? What if you put a stocky young man with curly hair at the center of the entertainment, reading his poetry? Yes, here in an old two-story mansion in 1831 there was a rented apartment for Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, and here he was incredibly happy. The very next day after the party we described, the house found its hospitable owner: in the Church of the Great Ascension, Pushkin married Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova. Their wedding dinner and first family ball took place here on Arbat. The poet’s particular calm and happiness during this Moscow period was witnessed by his contemporaries who visited him. Their portraits now decorate the memorial museum-apartment of A.S. Pushkin

But this memorable place was not immediately open to the public. For a very long time, communal apartments were occupied at this address, as at most other Moscow ones. Only a sign on the facade, installed in 1937, reminded residents that Pushkin lived here. Only in 1986 was the house on Arbat restored to officially open the museum-apartment - the memorial department of the State Museum of A.S. Pushkin.

Over the years and events, almost no exact data has been preserved about what the decoration was like in Pushkin’s apartment in Moscow. Creative researchers decided not to “artificially” recreate the interior, but to limit themselves to some common decorative elements characteristic of the era - chandeliers and lamps in the Empire style, cornices and curtains. The poet's surviving personal belongings are here: Pushkin's desk, Goncharova's table, lifetime portraits of the spouses. On the ground floor of the museum there is an exhibition “Pushkin and Moscow” about the difficult, but at the same time very warm relationship between the “Sun of Russian Poetry” and the capital.

It doesn’t often happen that you can actually visit a cult place from your favorite book. You just need to come, for example, to house number 10 on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street. Here, in apartment 50, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov lived for several years. Here he wrote his first stories; the image of this setting froze in his memory for many years. In the “bad apartment” No. 50, shrouded, according to the writer’s recollections, in a mystical atmosphere, the heroes of the famous novel “The Master and Margarita” live, meet and disappear.

Bulgakov's apartment museum was officially opened recently - in 2007. Before that, from the beginning of the 90s, the Foundation named after him was located in a memorable place. Bulgakov. The museum's collection consists of Mikhail Afanasyevich's personal furniture, household items, books, manuscripts, photographs, paintings and records, preserved and donated by the writer's relatives and friends. The exhibition is presented very interestingly. Eight halls introduce us to the era of the 20s–40s, the personality of the author and his literary heroes. Not only is Bulgakov’s room recreated here, but there is also a “Communal Kitchen”, the “Editorial office of the newspaper “Gudok”, where the writer worked, is presented, “The Blue Office” conveys the atmosphere of the writer’s last home in Nashchokinsky Lane.

In the “Bad Apartment” you can listen to a guide who will tell you in detail about the house, its inhabitants and, of course, the great writer of the 20th century. The museum premises are also used as the stage of the Komediant Theater; concerts and poetry evenings, forums on Bulgakov’s creative heritage and photo exhibitions are held here. The museum-apartment is located on the 4th floor. Do not confuse the memorial with the private cultural center “Bulgakov House” on the first one.

Much earlier than others in Moscow - in 1954 - the house-museum of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was opened. Now it is a branch of the State Literary Museum. On Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, in a two-story stone outbuilding built in 1874, Chekhov lived for almost four years. That period became a time of incredible inspiration and creative growth. In the house on Sadovaya he wrote almost a hundred stories and plays.

Based on the memoirs and sketches of contemporaries, the museum has almost thoroughly restored the environment in which the writer worked. Today you can see how he lived: his office, bedroom, sister and brother’s rooms. There are books by the playwright translated into different languages ​​of the world, the walls are decorated with photographs and graphics with views of Chekhov’s beloved Moscow at the end of the century before last. Many of Anton Pavlovich’s personal belongings have a whole history. For example, on the desk of a doctor-writer there is a bronze inkwell with the figure of a horse. It was given to him by a poor patient, with whom Chekhov not only did not demand money for consultations, but also gave money for further treatment. A photograph of his favorite composer Tchaikovsky, with a personal autograph, was very dear to his heart.

Chekhov's family donated manuscripts and documents to the state, which formed the basis of the exhibition housed in three halls of the museum. One of the rooms is entirely dedicated to the writer’s trip to Sakhalin. And the main hall of the Chekhov House-Museum in Moscow is not only an exhibition hall, but also a concert hall. The Chekhov Theater troupe plays here. You can look at the rarest posters for performances of that time, postcards with outstanding actors playing in plays based on Chekhov's works, programs, photographs of Chekhov in the acting environment, reviews of his contemporaries on his drama.

An architectural monument of Russian classicism, created by I.D. Gilardi, based on the drawings of D. Quarenghi, - the building of the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor - a place of pilgrimage not only for connoisseurs of the art of construction. The wing of the hospital was used, among other things, for the resettlement of its workers. The two-room apartment on the ground floor was occupied by the family of the doctor Dostoevsky. His son Fedor, born in the wing opposite, lived with his father and mother from 1823 to 1837. At the age of less than 16, he left Moscow for the then capital - St. Petersburg.

What is surprising is that the apartment where the great artist of words absorbed images and impressions from childhood was never rebuilt. The museum on Bozhedomka was opened back in 1928. Today, the street on which this house No. 2 stands is named after the author of The Brothers Karamazov. The collection is based on the most valuable items and documents carefully preserved by Dostoevsky’s wife, Anna Grigorievna. The interior of the rooms was restored according to the memoirs of the writer’s brother. The exhibition includes family furniture, decorative items, such as bronze candelabra, lifetime portraits of F.M.’s parents and relatives. Dostoevsky and even little Fedya’s very first book - “One Hundred and Four Selected Stories of the Old and New Testaments.”

Already outside the walls of the memorial apartment, but in the building of the former hospital, which became the Dostoevsky Museum in Moscow, the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature at Moscow State University and professional historians assembled the exhibition “The World of Dostoevsky,” introducing visitors to how Fyodor Mikhailovich lived and worked. There is also a lecture hall here.

The memorial setting of Korney Chukovsky's dacha has been almost completely left in the form it had during his lifetime. A two-story house on Serafimovich Street in Peredelkino keeps the secrets of creating many works for adults and children, because Korney Ivanovich lived here for almost thirty years. The museum collection includes household items of the writer, translator and literary critic, a large library of books and documents, including autographs of Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, Gagarin and Raikin, a collection of toys - gifts from children admired by his fairy tales. The house-museum was opened in 1996 in the writers' village.

The museum in Peredelkino is artistically filled with interesting exhibits and illustrations of the storyteller’s work: here is a miracle tree with shoes, and here is an old black telephone, which was probably used by an elephant. After looking in the mirror of the magic box, you need to make a wish. Here you can also see the cartoon “Telephone”, voiced by Korney Ivanovich himself.

In Zamoskvorechye, that rare area of ​​our metropolis, where to this day, by some miracle, the original appearance and charm of ancient streets has been preserved, the A.N. Museum was opened in 1984. Ostrovsky. It was here that the great Russian playwright was born. This is not even a house, but rather a two-story wooden manor of the early 19th century, around which a marvelous garden blooms from the first days of spring until almost mid-autumn.

The home environment that existed during the writer’s lifetime has been restored almost completely. There is a pleasant atmosphere of measured life. On the ground floor of the house Ostrovsky's belongings are collected: pieces of furniture (including his father's rare collection), books, family portraits. In addition, many items in the museum collection allow the visitor to learn the history of Moscow at that time, the customs and tastes of its inhabitants, and through this, perhaps, better understand the work of Alexander Ostrovsky. On the second floor, unique items related to stage productions of the playwright's works are exhibited. These are manuscripts, old posters, photographs of actors, sketches of scenery. As many as two halls are reserved specifically for the iconic plays “Dowry” and “The Thunderstorm”.

The Museum of the writer Leo Tolstoy in Moscow is located on Prechistenka. Under him, the Museum Academy for preschool children “Ant Brothers” regularly conducts developmental classes, as well as theatrical clubs for school students of different ages. It has its own lecture hall and cinema hall, library, second-hand bookstore, connected, of course, with the life and work of Lev Nikolaevich. Also, in order to unite literary scholars and writers, and professionals from other museums, art connoisseurs, the literary club “Lewin” was created at the museum.

Today, the main thematic excursions of the museum are “Father's House. The Youth of a Genius,” “Legends and Creation of the Tolstoy Family,” “Pages of Life,” “Earth and Heaven,” “War and Peace.”

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