K. G. Paustovsky Memorial House-Museum in Tarusa

About museum

The K. G. Paustovsky Memorial House-Museum in Tarusa is the only house-museum of the writer with its memorial interiors completely preserved. Konstantin Georgievich lived in the Tarusa house for the last 13 years of his life.

A special period of Konstantin Paustovsky's creative, literary and public activity is associated with Tarusa. Here the writer created parts of the autobiographical book 'Stories of Life' ('A Time of Great Expectations', 'A Dash to the South', 'The Book of Wanderings'), separate chapters of 'The Golden Rose', 'Ilyinsky Pool', numerous short stories, novellas, essays and articles. Many friends, pupils and admirers of the writer would come here.

Meetings of the editorial boards of the almanacs 'Literary Moscow' (1956) and 'Tarusa Pages' (1961), created at the initiative of K. G. Paustovsky, took place in the Tarusa house. The almanacs were a bold attempt to produce the first uncensored publications and later became some of the most famous collections of the era.


The house was visited by Nadezhda Mandelstam, Ariadna Efron, Nikolai Otten, Boris Slutsky, Nikolai Zabolotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, Yuri Kazakov, Boris Balter, Margarita Aliger, Eduard Kazakevich, Kirill Zdanevich, Lidia Delektorskaya, Alexei Batalov and many other notable contemporaries of the writer.

Today all rooms with their original lifetime furnishings are open to visitors: the writer's study, the entrance-hall living room, the bedroom of Tatyana Alexeyevna Paustovskaya, and the room of the writer's younger son, Alexei Paustovsky. In 2016 a memorial study of Vladimir Zheleznikov was opened in the house. The exhibition also includes a memorial garden with plants planted by the writer and his relatives.