The Pushkin Dacha Museum is a memorial museum of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, located in a historical building in the city of Pushkin in St. Petersburg (formerly Tsarskoye Selo).
The Pushkin Memorial Museum-Dacha was opened in 1958 in a historic house on Pushkinskaya Street (the street was called Kolpinskaya until 1949).
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin rented a dacha (8 rooms) in the house of the widow of the court valet Anna Kitaeva from May 25 to mid-October 1831. Pushkin arrived in Tsarskoye Selo with his wife Natalia Nikolaevna shortly after the wedding.
During his stay in Tsarskoye Selo, Pushkin worked a lot and fruitfully. So, in the summer and autumn of 1831, he wrote "Onegin's Letter to Tatiana", the poems "Echo", "The more often the lyceum celebrates..." and prepared for publication the "Belkin's Stories" written in Boldino.
The history of the museum in the former house of Kitaeva dates back to the 1930s, when members of the then existing Pushkin Society A. N. Tolstoy, Yu. N. Tynyanov, V. Ya. Shishkov and other Soviet writers raised the question of the need to take effective measures to preserve the former house of Kitaeva. In March 1941, it was decided to evict the residents from the former office of Alexander Pushkin and to open a museum room there, but the Great Patriotic War prevented the implementation of these plans.
During the war, the wooden one-story house of Kitaeva miraculously survived, and since December 21, 1958, fruitful work on the revival of Pushkin's memorial rooms began in the former house of Kitaeva.
The grand opening of the Pushkin Memorial Museum-Dacha after repair and reconstruction took place on June 6, 1981.
Today, the memorial museum-dacha is still located in the one-story wooden building of Kitaeva, which has largely preserved its original architectural appearance.
The memorial plaque on the house-museum tells that the house of Ya. Kitaev was built in 1827 by the architect V. M. Gornostaev. The house is now an architectural monument and is protected by the state.
Among the rooms in the dacha museum, you can visit the dining room, living room, boudoir, bedroom and the recreated study of the poet in the mezzanine of the house.
The interiors of the rooms recreated according to the memoirs of contemporaries, as well as the materials presented in the museum's exposition tell the guests 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.
The following relics are especially valuable in the house-museum:
- press griffin, presented by A.S. Pushkin to A.A. Delvig. 1st quarter of the 19th century. Gilded bronze, casting, chasing, plaster, cloth. Dimensions: 13×13.5×9.5;
- a glass with a lid and a saucer of K.K. Danzas. The beginning of the 19th century. Glass, painted in gold and silver. Glass-9 (height without lid) 15 (height with lid) 6.1 (diameter of the base) 8 (diameter of the lid). Saucer - 3,2 (height) 13,7 (top diameter) 7,1 (base diameter);
- a samovar from the Nashchokin family. Prokofy and Nikolai Surovtsev. 1830s Russia (Moscow). Nickel plating of the beginning of the 20th century. Copper, nickel plating, wood. Dimensions: 31×18×19.
Practical information
The address of the memorial museum-dacha of A.S. Pushkin: 196607, Pushkin city, Pushkinskaya Street, house 2/19.
The Memorial Dacha Museum is part of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum, which is the oldest Pushkin Museum in Russia.
Today, the museum complex, in addition to the dacha museum, includes four more museums:
- memorial museum-lyceum, which was opened in 1949 in the building of the former Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in the city of Pushkin - 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, A.S. Pushkin was educated at the lyceum. More about the Lyceum Museum with photos…
- the museum-apartment of A. S. Pushkin on the Moika with a literary and monographic exhibition "A.S. Pushkin. Life and creativity". Learn more about the museum and the exhibition with photos…
- memorial museum-apartment of Nikolai Alexandrovich Nekrasov, located in the house where Nekrasov lived from 1857 until his death in 1877;
- the museum-estate of Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin, which is a unique memorial object, recreated in 2003-2011. More about the estate museum with photos...
We recommend that you check the official website for detailed information about the Pushkin Memorial dacha museum and other museums of the museum complex, including opening hours, ticket prices, visiting conditions, etc.
Website of the museum complex "All-Russian Pushkin Museum": museumpushkin.
You can visit Tsarskoye Selo with one of the excursions
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In Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo) you can stay
The 5-star Pevcheskaya Tower Hotel offers restaurants, a bar, a rooftop observation deck, free Wi-Fi and parking.
Breakfast is included in the room rate. Link to the hotel
The 5-star luxury spa hotel "Tsar Palace Luxury Hotel & SPA"is located in a historic building.
The hotelhas a spa center with a swimming pool, a hammam, a salt sauna, a snow fountain, steam baths and a gym; free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour front desk, 2 restaurants, a lobby bar, private parking and meeting and conference rooms.
The rooms are equipped with climate control, a mini-bar, a safe and a private bathroom.
A buffet breakfast is included in the room rate. Link to the hotel
3-star hotel Ekaterina, located on the territory of the Catherine Palace and Park Ensemble.
The hotelhas a 24-hour front desk, a cafe, free Wi-Fi and parking.
The rooms are equipped with airconditioning, a TV, a work desk and free toiletries.
Breakfast is included in the room rate. Link to the hotel
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