Boris Pasternak Memorial Museum

About museum

The museum also hosts literary meetings, concerts, literary master classes and other events. The Memorial Museum of B. Pasternak was opened in Chistopol in 1990. It is located in the house where, during the Great Patriotic War, the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature Boris Leonidovich Pasternak lived. In 2015, dedicated to the Year of Literature in the Russian Federation, the museum was revised and comprises six halls devoted to Pasternak's life and work. The museum exhibits lifetime editions of his works, diary entries, letters and manuscripts of the writer, as well as memorial items from the room and the owner's kitchen where he lived in 1941–1943. The museum also holds literary meetings, concerts, master classes and other events.