Exhibition of the M. Y. Lermontov House‑Museum

About exhibition

The exhibition is a recreated interior of a Moscow mansion from the 1820s–1830s. It tells of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov’s early childhood, his school years in Moscow, the people who surrounded him, his life in St. Petersburg and in the Caucasus, and the poet’s interests and hobbies. The museum houses the only known self‑portrait by Lermontov, books with his autographs, family portraits — the poet as a young child, his mother and grandmother (Maria Mikhailovna and Elizaveta Alekseyevna), a watercolor portrait of his father Yuri Petrovich, and priceless drawings and oil paintings by Lermontov depicting views of the Caucasus.