V.G. Belinsky Museum-Estate

About museum

In 1938 the V. G. Belinsky Museum-Estate was opened in Chembar. It is located in the house where the Belinsky family lived. The complex includes the Belinsky house, the building of the Chembar district school, and the house of F. I. Antyushin. The Belinsky house is a one-storey wooden building with seven rooms and a kitchen. V. G. Belinsky lived here continuously from 1816 to 1825 and visited the house during vacations in 1825–1829 and in the summer of 1830 after completing his first year at Moscow University. The house contains a memorial-domestic exhibition, while the Chembar district school hosts the exhibition 'The Youth of the Impetuous Vissarion'. The former house of F. I. Antyushin houses the literary exhibition 'I am a Fighter in the World'. The museum operates a literary lounge and a video room. The displays include memorial items, books from the critic's personal library, teaching aids, works by Russian and foreign writers of the 18th–19th centuries, household objects and visual materials. Here visitors can feel the atmosphere of the time and become acquainted with the work of V. G. Belinsky.