State Museum of L.N. Tolstoy. Literary Exhibition on Prechistenka Street

About museum

In 1817, to a design by architect A. G. Grigoriev, an old mansion was built in which, at the initiative of V. F. Bulgakov, the Literary Museum of L. N. Tolstoy was established in 1920. The building is a splendid example of mature Moscow Empire style with white columns and bas-reliefs. Over more than a hundred years several permanent exhibitions have succeeded one another, and in 2003 a new permanent exhibition, 'Earth and Sky of Leo Tolstoy', was opened. It allows visitors to become acquainted with Tolstoy's world as a man, an artist and a thinker. The museum displays daguerreotypes, childhood sketches, first editions and illustrations to Tolstoy's works, as well as works by great painters and sculptors, contemporary editions and applied art objects. The Literary Museum of L. N. Tolstoy is an integral part of the history of the writer's work and the spiritual quests of the generations living at the beginning of the third millennium.