Literary museums
- Anna Akhmatova museum at fountain house
- Blok apartment museum
- The St. Petersburg Nabokov museum
- Nekrasov apartment museum
- Museum of Derzhavin and the Russian literature of his time
- Lev Gumilyov memorial apartment museum
- Shevchenko apartment museum
- Mikhail Zoshcenko literary museum
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Anna Akhmatova museum at fountain house
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Anna Akhmatova Museum in Fountain House presents the exhibition telling us about Saint Petersburg in Anna Akhmatova's Epoch. On display there are paintings, drawings, autographs, memorial things, photos and books from the Museum's collection. In the Fontanny Dom (Fountain House) Anna Akhmatova, an outstanding Russian poet of the 20th century, has lived for 30 years. This house was a character of her poems, became for the poet a personification of Saint Petersburg and the pre-revolutionary history of Russia. In the flat in the Fontanny Dom Anna Akhmatova wrote lots of her most famous poems. Many of them were not «written» in the full sense of this word: being afraid of repressions Akhmatova didn't keep manuscripts but memorized them and entrusted her closest friends to learn them by heart. Thus «Requiem» and «Poem without a Hero», poems that turned into the symphony about the fate of her generation, have been preserved.
Located: Fontanka emb, 34
Open: 10-30 – 18-30
Closed: Monday
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Blok apartment museum
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Located in the house where the poet A. Blok lived in 1912-1921. Here he wrote many of his most famous lyrics, poems, and articles. The exhibition displays books, autographs, historical photographs, and personal belongings of the poet. The museum consists of two parts: memorial apartment with unique authentic object belonged to the poet and literary exposition dedicated to poet's life and works.
Location: Dekabristov str, 57
Opened: 11.00 – 17.00
Closed: Wednesdays, the last Tuesday of each month
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The St. Petersburg Nabokov museum
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Author of numerous novels, short stories, poems and essays, Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) remains a towering figure in world literature of the 20th century. It is not just Nabokov's literary merits that have made him one of the brightest figures of Russian and world culture. The many facets of Nabokov's talents as well as his extraordinary life have thrust him into the higher ranks to become a «legend», a literary celebrity. Initiated by UNESCO, the Nabokov Centennial will be celebrated world wide this year. Every country where Nabokov lived at different times - Russia, Great Britain, France, The USA, Switzerland - will pay tribute to this great writer. Vladimir Nabokov spent the first 18 years of his life in the Nabokov family house at 47 Bolshaya Morskaya Street in St. Petersburg. In September, 1997, the house opened as the V.V.Nabokov Museum, thus becoming the core link between the writer and his native city. Its exposition recounts the history of the Nabokov family and the house were they lived. The annual Nabokov Conferences take place there.
Location: Bolshay Morskay 47
Opened: Tuesday - Friday 11.00 - 18.00;
Saturday, Sunday 12.00 - 17.00
Closed: Monday
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Nekrasov apartment museum
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The Nekrasov Apartment Museum, featuring the life and work of the poet Nikolai Nekrasov and those of his contemporaries in the post-Pushkin period, presents Nekrasov's last apartment in St. Petersburg where he lived for 20 years and where the editorial office for Russia's best magazines of the second half of the nineteenth century «Sovremennik»(The Contemporary), founded and started by Pushkin himself, and «Otechesvennye Zapiski» (Native Transactions) were located. The memorial exposition of this museum acquaints a visitor with cultural and historical prospects of the processes which originated in Pushkin's epoch and which determined the peculiarity of the social and literary relationships of the next years.
Location: Liteiny pr., 36
Opened: 10.30 - 18.00
Closed: Tuesdays and the last Friday of each month
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Museum of Derzhavin and the Russian literature of his time
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The branch museum, being created in the memorial estate of the poet Gavrila Derzhavin, will be dedicated to one of the most important predecessors of Pushkin. The foundation of the Museum of Derzhavin and Russian Literature of his period in this house will complete a long process of building a unique museum complex, that will present Pushkin's life and creative work in the context of two epochs of Russian life (XVIII and XIX centuries), united by the similarity of their cultural development, visual and lively continuity.
Location: Moika Emb., 118
Opened: 10.30 – 18.00
Closed: Tuesdays and the last Friday of each month
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Lev Gumilyov memorial apartment museum
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(a brunch of the Anna Akhmatova museum in the Fauntain House)
On the second floor of a large four storey building on the corner of Kolomenskaya Ulitsa and Kuznechny Pereulok in the heart of St. Petersburg is the former apartment of the famous academic, historian, geographer and ethnologist Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev – the son of the poetess Anna Akhmatova and her husband and fellow Silver Age poet Nikolai Gumilev. It was in this apartment – the only one that he ever had all to himself – that Lev Gumilyov spent the last two years of his life, from 1990 to 1992. The apartment has changed very little since his death, and still contains vivid traces of this outstanding academic figure. Amongst the exhibits, visitors can hear all about the difficult but astoundingly rich creative life of Gumilyov. They may also touch his personal belongings, look at his books and watch footage of his brilliant lectures broadcast on television.
Location: Kolomenskaya str., 1/15
Open: TU –SU 10.30 am – 5.30 pm
Closed: MO
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Shevchenko apartment museum
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The former apartment of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko is located in the building of the Academy of Arts, designed by the founding father of Classicism in Russia, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe. The building is located in Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, opposite the landing berth on the river Neva adorned by a pair of Egyptian sphinxes. Shevchenko’s workshop is the only museum space in St. Petersburg to display the work of this outstanding 19th century cultural figure. The interior of the workshop, with its objects related to the work of the painter and engraver (copies of the personal belongings of Shevchenko) were recreated according to the recollections of his contemporaries, including Nikolai Leskov and Ivan Turgenev. The museum contains original drawings, as well as copies and reproductions of works of art dating from all the period of Shevchenko’s work. The exhibits also include books about the life and work of the artist and early editions of his poetry.
Location: Universitetskaya nab., 17
Open: Daily 11 pm – 4 pm
Closed: MO, TU
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Mikhail Zoshcenko literary museum
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The Mikhail Zoshchenko literary museum was opened in 1992 in the apartment in which the writer lived – the famed writers’ house on the Griboedov canal (current address: Malaya Konyushennaya 4/2). At various times, Zoshchenko shared the house with a whole host of other literary figures and artists including Kornilov and Zobolotsky, but later lived in a small two-room apartment in the same building. One of the rooms is memorial exhibition dedicated to the writer, located in his former study, while the second (formerly his wife’s room) houses the literary part of the exhibition. The Zoshchenko museum is unique in that all the items and surroundings in his study have been recreated faithfully to resemble the way it looked while the writer lived there from January 1955 to July 1958. The Zoshchenko museum is the only literary museum in St. Petersburg dedicated in to the writer of the Soviet period and the life of the intelligentsia during the difficult period from 1930 – 1950. The museum also conducts research work, and offers excursions and activities on 20th century literature, developed in conjunction with school programs.
Location: Malaya Konuyshennaya, 4/2
Open: TU-SU 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Closed: MO, the last WE of every month
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