Sergei Sobyanin about remarkable museum houses and memorial apartments in Moscow

The capital is home to 16 museum houses and memorial apartments of famous writers and scientists, which were visited by over 375,000 people last year, writes Sergei Sobyanin on his Telegram channel.

“Each of the 16 sites managed by the Department of Culture is unique in its own way, inextricably linked with the life and work of outstanding people and stores important artifacts,” the Moscow Mayor writes.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin

One of the most visited locations is Turgenev Museum House, indeed. In 2018, the mansion on Ostozhenka Street was revamped to restore the original interiors, 12 halls of its front-line enfilade, mezzanine and basement soring more than 1,600 exhibits.

BulgakovMuseum on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street is very popular, too. Ten of the seven rooms in the ‘Mean Apartment’ accommodate both a permanent exhibition and temporary displays, its ‘Blue’ Study Room containing the writer’s authentic pieces of furniture, such as an old escritoire that Bulgakov used to sit at when writing his Master and Margarita.

Both residents and tourists are also very fond of Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum, and it is in this apartment on Tverskaya Street that the writer dictated his novel Born of the Storm and answered the letters from readers; the museum holds Nikolai Ostrovsky’s personal stuff, documents and photos and also recreates an atmosphere of the Soviet era.