"Childhood and Youth of the Romantic Grin"

About exhibition

The A.S. Grin Museum is located in a one-story stone house with a mezzanine, which was built to a design by architect E.K. Nyukvist in 1908. This building is 116 years old. It stands on the site of the estate of the soldier's widow Ivanova, from whom the Grinevsky family rented an outhouse. The museum building is a federal monument of history and culture. The permanent exhibition includes four exhibition halls. In the "Children's Room" and the "Living Room" a permanent exhibition is presented, telling about A. Grin's childhood and family. The rooms recreate a typical setting for the family of a rank-and-file serviceman, displaying memorial items from the Grinevsky family and furniture from the late 19th century. The exhibition features items that belonged to the Grinevsky family and have never been shown before. These are household items and tableware, and a postcard from the Grinevsky family album. Most of these items were donated to the museum in 1977 by Olga Mikhailovna Grinevskaya, the widow of Alexander Grin's younger brother. Temporary exhibitions dedicated to the lives and work of outstanding local writers and well-known Russian writers of the late 19th–20th centuries are held in exhibition halls No. 3–4.