P. I. Tchaikovsky State Memorial Music Museum-Reserve

About museum

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky spent the last one and a half years of his life in this house and during that time wrote the Sixth Symphony, which he himself called 'the best and most sincere of all my works'. In October 1893 Tchaikovsky left for St. Petersburg to present his work to listeners, but did not return. The idea of creating a museum for the great Russian composer belonged to his brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He created a new type of museum in which Tchaikovsky's archive, library, photograph albums and the entire domestic interior of his last years were preserved intact. In 1916, according to M. I. Tchaikovsky's will, the museum was transferred to the Imperial Russian Musical Society. In 1918 the museum was issued a Protection Certificate, and in 1921 the museum was nationalized.