NEKRASOV APARTMENT MUSEUM

A branch of the All-Russia Pushkin Museum

36 Liteiny prospekt 191104 St. Petersburg
Open: 11am - 5pm
Closed: Tuesdays and the last Friday of every month
Tel. 272-0165
Nearest metro stations: Chernyshevskaya and Mayakovskaya

Created in 1946, the museum is devoted to the life and work of the poet Nikolai Alexeyevich Nekrasov (1821-1877) and his circle of writers. The renewed and expanded exhibition opened in 1985 after major repair work to the building.

Nekrasov spent the last twenty years of his life here. His apartment housed the editorial offices of the journals Contemporary (Sovremennik) and Notes from the Motherland (Otechestvennye Zapiski). It was frequented by such luminaries as Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Leo Tolstoy. Nekrasov's house was one of the literary and social centres of St. Petersburg.

The museum features Nekrasov's personal belongings, the first illustrated editions of his writings, photographs, autographs and paintings, including portraits of the writer by Ivan Kramskoi and Konstantin Makovsky.

The rooms of Ivan Panayev, a friend and colleague of Nekrasov, contain a display that illustrates the development of Russian journalism in the 1830s-60s.