Exhibitions of the Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum

About exhibition

Hall No. 1 of the museum is dedicated to Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya, whom Pushkin called "the queen of the muses and beauty." The princess held literary and musical evenings—salons—every week; their popularity was due to the extraordinary personality of the hostess. Here are displayed portraits of the owners of the mansion at 14 Tverskaya Street, from Ekaterina Ivanovna Kozitskaya, the widow of Catherine II's state secretary, to Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya, the daughter of Prince, diplomat and philosopher Alexander Mikhailovich Beloselsky-Belozersky. The museum preserves the memorial apartment that was provided to Nikolai Ostrovsky by the Moscow Soviet. It consisted of two rooms furnished with state-issued furniture: the memorial dining room and N.A. Ostrovsky's memorial study. In 1940, after the writer's death, the apartment became a memorial museum. The rooms retain the furnishings of that time, the writer's personal belongings, books, and photographs of relatives. Temporary exhibitions are regularly held in the museum's exhibition hall and in halls No. 2 and No. 3.