Visit to the permanent exhibition and exhibitions at the Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum

About exhibition

Guests have access to all rooms of the apartment where Marina Tsvetaeva lived from 1914 to 1922: the formal Dining Room with a ceiling skylight, the intimate Music Room with an antique grand piano, the spacious Children's Room, the ascetic poet's room whose centerpiece is a table with notes left on it, the secluded Efron Study on the mezzanine, and a hidden attic. Here Tsvetaeva first felt like the mistress of her house and enthusiastically arranged the family nest. The apartment charmed visitors with its whimsical decor, numerous antiques, a vast number of books, the warmth of the fireplace and the atmosphere of inspiration that prevailed here. After Sergey Efron left for the White Army, Marina Tsvetaeva survived for almost five years under the conditions of War Communism. She drew strength from her creative work and from her natural patience, humor and zest for life. It was during the years spent in Borisoglebsky Lane that Tsvetaeva matured into one of the leading poets, wrote ten books of lyric poetry and produced her first plays and essays. Today the permanent exhibition is presented in a renewed form; its current image is the white sheet so beloved by Tsvetaeva, barely touched by writing. The even whiteness of the walls reveals the architectural uniqueness of the one-and-a-half-century-old house. The furnishings, reduced to a minimum and showing primarily personal items and typological objects, leave room for imagination and memory. The space of the memorial apartment is framed by temporary exhibitions in other rooms of the house.