Alexander Pushkin Museum

This literary museum, dedicated to Russia's most celebrated poet, stands just a few yards away from Palace Square and two blocks from Nevsky Prospekt on the quiet embankment of the Moika River. The museum is centered around Alexander Pushkin's memorial apartment where he lived in 1836-37, and died after being mortally wounded in a dramatic duel. On a wave of nationwide grief for the untimely death of this major Russian literary figure, Pushkin's apartment was carefully preserved, and remains a fine example of a nobleman's residence of the 1830s. One can visit the study of the poet and writer who gave the world the stories of "Eugene Onegin" and "The Queen of Spades", and set a standard of perfection for Russian poetry and literary language.

Several galleries of the museum feature literary and historical exhibitions.

Address: 12 Naberezhnaya Reki Moyki, St.-Petersburg
Metro: Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor
Telephone: 311-3531, 314-00-06
Fax: 311-3801

Open: Wednesday to Monday, 10:40 am to 5 pm
Closed Tuesday and the last Friday of each month

On this theme:


• "Ostafievo" Museum
  
• The Postmaster House Museum
  
• Alexandrinsky Theatre
  
• The State Museum of the Fine Arts
  
• Pushkin A.S.
  
• Alexander Nevsky Lavra
  
• Pearls of Russia
  
• Literary and Art Museum "Priyutino"
  
• Central Museum of Air Forces
  
• Dargomyzhsky A. S.
  
• Tsarskoe Selo
  
• Museum of Black Sea Fleet
  
• V.I. Surikov House-Museum
  
• The Peter and Paul Fortress
  
• Nikolai I