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Pushkin Apartment Museum on the Moika River (Saint Petersburg)

12 Moika River Embankment, St. Petersburg (tel.: +7 812 571-35-31, +7 812 315-95-13), Metro Stations: "Gostiny Dvor", "Nevsky Prospekt".

The Pushkin Apartment Museum on the Moika River is a memorial museum of the poet dedicated to the last period of his life and oeuvre. The Museum is situated in one of the oldest stone buildings of St. Petersburg in 12 Moika River Embankment. The building had belonged to the Volkonsky ducal family since 1806.

This is the house where Pushkin and his family had lived in a flat of eleven rooms since September of 1836. And this flat was the last one in his life. The poet, fatally wounded during the duel, died here on 29 January (10 February according to the new style), 1837, at 2:45PM.

The building on the Moika River was built in 1720s. After the poet died, it was re-erected many times. The architectural appearance of the building has also been changed significantly.

In autumn of 1924, the former Pushkin's flat passed under the supervision of the Pushkin group of the Old Petersburg Society. The reconstruction had started then and continued in the following years.

On the 10th February, 1925, a meeting dedicated to the Alexander Pushkin's death anniversary was held in the restored study room of the poet. The first museum was opened in several rooms on 13 February, 1927.

Today, the Museum keeps a lot of original things that have taken their regular places after decades. The desk of the poet and his favourite Voltaire armchair, the sofa and the bureau, the walking sticks and the pipe, the inkpot with a little black boy and other poet's belongings in the study remind today about the life of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.

In the room of the poet's wife a visitor can see her scent-bottle, coral bracelet, wallets embroidered with beads and silk and other memorial things.

Portraits of the poet and his family can be found among the original Pushkin's relics. Also the Museum keeps the things associated with the duel and the death of Alexander Pushkin. These are the waistcoat, which Pushkin wore on the date of the duel meet, the lock of hair cut from the head of the deceased on request of Ivan Turgenev, and the death mask made by Samuel Galberg.

Downstairs (in the basement), where the utility rooms were in the Pushkin's time, an "introductory" exposition is placed. It is dedicated to the last months of the Pushkin's life. Engraved plates, watercolours and lithographic pictures of the Pushkin's time, portraits of the poet's friends, documents on the duel of 27 January, 1837, in the Chernaya River (literally Black River) are exhibited in two small rooms. The same rooms showcase the fragments of drapery decorating one of the poet's rooms and donated to the Museum in 1968 by collector Serge Lifar.

The study takes a special place in the exposition. The library accounts for about 4,000 books in 14 languages.

The whole building was given to the Museum in 1987.

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