A. N. Tolstoy Memorial Apartment Museum (Department of the State Literary Museum named after V.I. Dahl)

About museum

The A. N. Tolstoy memorial apartment museum was opened on October 20, 1987.

It is located in a building designed by architect O. F. Shekhtel in 1901–1903. From August 1941 until his death in 1945, Aleksey Tolstoy lived in this house with his wife Lyudmila Ilyinichna. The apartment museum's exhibition was created on the basis of A. N. Tolstoy's memorial collection, handed over to the State Literary Museum after the death of the writer's widow.

The collection includes books from the Turgenevs' Masonic library, rare foreign editions of the writer published during his lifetime, as well as a collection of Russian and Western European paintings of the 16th–20th centuries, items of decorative and applied arts, and furniture by Russian and Western European craftsmen. It is one of the most valuable collections within the funds of the State Literary Museum and serves as the basis for numerous exhibition projects.