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Bulgakov House Museum-Theatre

Bulgakov House Museum-Theatre
Steeped in popular Moscow legend, this is where Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita lived and wrote his famous novel. Read_on (No Comments)

Chekhov Museum

Chekhov Museum
Chekhov never went out of favour even during the Soviet years. His museum opened here for the first time in 1953, and underwent a spring clean in 2003. Read_on (No Comments)

Dostoevsky Memorial Museum

Dostoevsky Memorial Museum
Dostoevsky is usually associated with St. Petersburg but in fact he grew up in Moscow. His father was posted to the city’s hospital for the poor and this small apartment, attached to the hospital, was given to him and his family. Read_on (No Comments)

Gorky Memorial Museum

Gorky Memorial Museum
Designed by one of Russia’s most celebrated art nouveau architects - Fyodor Schechtel - in 1900, the Ryabushinsky Mansion is most famous as the former home of writer Maxim Gorky. Read_on (No Comments)

Lev Tolstoy Memorial Estate in Khamovniki

Lev Tolstoy Memorial Estate in Khamovniki
The house where Tolstoy and his family lived after leaving his family estate and moving to Moscow in the 1881 has been kept in pristine condition. Read_on (No Comments)

Lev Tolstoy Museum

Lev Tolstoy Museum
Dedicated to the life of the man behind War and Peace and Anna Karenina, this is a reverential place packed with personal and literary material. Read_on (No Comments)

Mayakovsky Museum

Mayakovsky Museum
An ode to surrealism, this museum is a structural rendition of Mayakovsky's life and works and is spread out over four floors. Read_on (No Comments)

Pushkin Memorial flat

Pushkin Memorial flat
Given Pushkin's unfortunate demise in a duel fighting for his wife's honour, it seems fitting that the house where he spent his honeymoon is now a memorial museum. Read_on (No Comments)

Pushkin Museum

Pushkin Museum
What a shame there is so little English, it makes it seem that Pushkin is for Russians only. If you can understand Russian, this place has a lot of interesting specimems, from manuscript pages, to presentations based on his famous works. Read_on (No Comments)