N. A. Nekrasov Memorial Apartment Museum

About museum

The house at 36 Liteyny Avenue is forever associated with the name of N. A. Nekrasov, a well-known Russian poet. He lived here from 1857 to 1877, and these rooms housed the editorial offices of two popular and progressive journals, Sovremennik and Otechestvennye Zapiski. Famous 19th-century writers and poets gathered here: Turgenev, Tolstoy, Ostrovsky, Dostoevsky and others. In 1946 a memorial apartment museum was opened here, where one can see portraits of the poet painted by Kramskoi, Makovsky and other artists, as well as portraits and photographs of his contemporaries. Here one can see personal belongings, manuscripts and autographs of the poet's poems and epics, as well as illustrations created by Russian artists during N. A. Nekrasov's lifetime. The "Panaev section" presents materials that introduce one of the most outstanding representatives of Russian literature, I. I. Panaev.