The Pushkin Apartment Museum is a memorial museum located in the apartment where the poet spent the last months of his life.
The museum is located in the former mansion of the Princes Volkonsky, which is located in the center of St. Petersburg, on the embankment of the Moika River between the Bolshoy Konyushenny and Pevcheskiy Bridges.
Initially, a three-story mansion with two-story courtyard stone wings on this site was built under Ivan Antonovich Cherkasov. The mansion was built on the site of a temporary wooden house by architect Domenico Trezzini.
Later, the house was rebuilt in the Dutch style. After the death of Ivan Antonovich, the mansion passed to his son-the president of the medical college A. I. Cherkasov.
In 1762, the Cherkasov mansion was sold. The stables located in the courtyard were popularly called "Bironovsky" (Bironov), since according to legend they were arranged for the once all-powerful and powerful duke. These stables have survived to this day.
Subsequently, the mansion changed owners, was rebuilt and acquired the features of early classicism.
In 1806, the plot passed to Princess Alexandra Nikolaevna Volkonskaya. The poet Alexander Pushkin was a friend of her son Sergei.
In 1835, apartments in the mansion began to be rented out on a floor-by-floor basis. In September 1836, the family of Alexander Pushkin moved to an apartment of eleven rooms on the first floor. Here, four months later, on January 29 (February 10, new style), 1837, the poet died, mortally wounded by Georges Dantes in a duel held two days earlier-on January 27.
Natalia Nikolaevna Pushkina (Alexander Sergeevich's wife) left the apartment in mid-February. After her departure to Moscow, the objects and books were taken out of the apartment by friends.
Subsequently, the house was rebuilt, while significantly changing the architectural appearance of the apartment in which Pushkin lived.
Today, the former Volkonsky mansion itself is an architectural monument and a tourist attraction. It has three floors. The central risalit is decorated with six Corinthian fluted pilasters with capitals. The panels under the windows of the third floor are decorated with garlands. Above the arched entrances, at the level of the second floor, there are two balconies.
Memorial plaque on the wall of the house
In the courtyard of the building there is a monument to Alexander Pushkin.
The history of the museum dates back to 1924, when the former Pushkin apartment was taken over by the Pushkin circle of the society "Old Petersburg", and work began on its reconstruction.
The first museum was opened in several rooms on February 13, 1927. Over time, the museum was significantly transformed and thoroughly restored on the basis of contemporary testimonies and a number of preserved historical documents.
Today, the museum-apartment of A. S. Pushkin presents: a desk and a chair in Pushkin's office, a lock of Alexander Sergeevich's hair, a death mask, jewelry of his wife, portraits of children, a sofa on which the poet died, and other unique things that belonged to both Pushkin himself and his family members, friends and acquaintances.
In the basement, where in the days of Pushkin there were utility rooms, there is an introductory exhibition that tells about the history of the old house, about the life of Pushkin in St. Petersburg, about the pre-duel history and the responses of contemporaries to the death of the great poet. In the halls there are, among other things, engravings, watercolors and lithographs of Pushkin's time, portraits of the poet's friends, authentic wedding shoes of Pushkin's wife and fragments of drapery that once decorated one of the rooms of the poet's apartment, donated to the museum in 1968 by the collector S. Lifar.
In addition to the memorial museum-apartment, the former Volkonsky mansion on the Moika River embankment also houses the Main literary and monographic exhibition " A. S. Pushkin. Life and creativity".
In seventeen rooms of the presented exhibits of Pushkin's time, the famous portrait of the poet brush of V. A. Tropinin, in vivo imaging of Pushkin and his contemporaries, memorabilia, among which Desk poet Boldin from the house, a favorite chair by I. A. Krylov, Hiking stool M. I. Kutuzov, exquisite toy "naschokinsky house", the magical monument of antiquity and laborious art, the Charter of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, the great-grandfather of Pushkin - Abram Petrovich Hannibal. The first editions of the poet's works are also presented: "Ruslan and Lyudmila", chapters of "Eugene Onegin", etc.; Pushkin manuscripts (in copies on archival paper).
Memorial Museum-Pushkin's apartment and exhibition " A. S. Pushkin. Life and Creativity "on the Moika is part of the museum complex "All-Russian Pushkin Museum", which is the oldest Pushkin museum in Russia and traces its history back to the first museum of the poet, opened in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum on October 19, 1879.
Today, the museum complex, in addition to the apartment museum and the exhibition at the Moika, includes four more museums:
- memorial museum-apartment of Nikolai Alexandrovich Nekrasov, located in the house in which Nekrasov lived from 1857 until his death in 1877.
In the exhibition halls there are portraits of the poet, portraits and photographs of his famous contemporaries, a collection of personal belongings, draft versions of manuscripts and white autographs of poems and poems.
Museum address: 36 Liteyny proezd, Saint Petersburg, 191104;
-the museum-estate of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin, which is a unique memorial object, recreated in 2003-2011.
The city estate of the poet includes: the mansion in which Derzhavin lived from 1791 to 1816, a home theater, a greenhouse and a manor garden.
Museum address: 118 Fontanka River Embankment, 198005, Saint Petersburg;
- memorial museum-dacha of A. S. Pushkin, which was opened in 1958 in the city of Pushkin (former Tsarskoye Selo) in a one-story wooden building, largely preserved its original architectural appearance.
In the house that belonged to A. K. Kitaeva, the poet rented eight rooms, and from May to October 1831 he lived in them with his young wife.
Recreated from the memories of contemporaries, the interiors of the rooms, as well as the materials presented in the museum's exposition, tell about the life and work of the poet. A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to the stay in Tsarskoye Selo of N. M. Karamzin and V. A. Zhukovsky-senior contemporaries and literary mentors of Pushkin.
Museum address: 196607, Pushkin city (Saint Petersburg), Pushkinskaya street, house 2/19. Learn more about the dacha museum with photos...
- memorial museum-lyceum, which was opened in 1949 in the building of the former Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum - one of the privileged educational institutions of Russia in the 1st quarter of the 19th century (founded by Emperor Alexander I in 1811 for the children of nobles).
From 1811 to 1817, Pushkin was educated at the lyceum.
The Pushkin room in the museum-Lyceum recreates the environment in which the Lyceum students of the first class lived and studied. On the basis of archival materials, the following items were restored: a large hall, a newspaper room, a library, classrooms, students ' bedrooms, as well as the apartment of the tutor and art teacher S. G. Chirikov.
On the 2nd floor of the lyceum building there is a permanent exhibition "We live in the memory of the Lyceum", which represents the 200-year history of a wonderful educational institution and tells about the fate of outstanding graduates of the Lyceum in different years.
The address of the museum: 196600, Pushkin city (St. Petersburg), Sadovaya street, house 2. Read more about the Lyceum museum with photos...
!!! For more information about the Pushkin Museum and other museums of the museum complex, including opening hours, ticket prices, visiting conditions, etc., please check the official website.
Website of the museum complex "All-Russian Pushkin Museum": museumpushkin.
Address of the Pushkin Museum-apartment: 12 Moika River Embankment, Saint Petersburg, 191186.
Nearest metro stations: "Admiralteiskaya" and "Nevsky Prospekt".
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