Pushkin House Literary Museum, St. Petersburg

Located near the Malaya Neva and Exchange Bridge is the Pushkin House. The building is also known as the Institute of Russian Literature and is home to a collection of over 120,000 Russian literary items that encompass the 13th century to the present. Named after one of Russia’s greatest poets and the founder of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin, the museum’s origins began in 1905 when a commission that was erecting a Pushkin monument recommended a permanent institution be created to house his works. Today, the museum not only houses the works of Pushkin, but those of many other Russian writers such as Tolstoy, Blok, and Remizov.

Russian literature aficionados and museum visitors will enjoy the detail and wealth of material devoted to the history of Russian written word and the many exhibitions and lectures that occur quite often. Old Russian Literature, Russian Folklore and Records Archive, New Russian Literature, Pushkin Studies, Correlation of Russian and Foreign Literature, Bibliography and Sources, Manuscript Division and Archive of Ancient Relics, and the Literature Museum are the Institute divisions. Of special note are the rare photos, book illustrations, and autographs of Russian writers.

Why You Should Visit:
A beautiful academic museum with the richest collection of unique relics and artifacts that belonged to outstanding Russian poets and writers of the late 18th and early 20th centuries: Pushkin, Derzhavin, Zhukovsky, Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Lermontov (largest Lermontov collection in the world), Leo Tolstoy, Turgenev, Goncharov, Blok, Akhmatova, Gumilev and many others!