A. M. Gorky's Childhood Museum 'Kashirin's House'

About museum

On January 1, 1938, the A. M. Gorky Childhood Museum 'Kashirin's House' was opened. This site has federal significance and is connected with the writer's childhood; it is also the setting of the autobiographical tale 'Childhood'. The house is a one-story log building with five rooms: a kitchen, the grandfather's room, the grandmother's room, Mikhail's room and Uncle Alesha Peshkov's room. The house displays authentic 19th-century household items, including memorial items that belonged to the family. The wooden structure and fragments of the memorial landscape have been preserved here, allowing a complete representation of the Kashirin family's way of life and the spiritual formation of the future writer Maxim Gorky. This site provides significant information about the life of the Nizhny Novgorod petty bourgeoisie of the 19th century and serves as a kind of encyclopedia of Russian characters and the national way of life.