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Follow the link to learn more1. Museums in the village Peredelkino
In 1934, at the initiative of Russian prose writer and playwright Maxim Gorky, a writer's community was established in the summerhouse village of Peredelkino in southwest Moscow. Today you can visit the museum of children's writer Korney Chukovsky, in which the writer's 4,500-book library is preserved (many books are in foreign languages), his Oxford Honorary Degree gown and the desk of his friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruKornei Chukovsky's house in Peredelkino
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruInside Chukovsky's house
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruChildren writer Kornei Chukovsky
Tours in English and French: +7 (495) 593-2670, chukovskogo.muzei@yandex.ru
Address: Peredelkino, 3 Serafimovich Street
goslitmuz.ru/museums/dom-muzey-k-i-chukovskogo – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
Another famous museum in Peredelkino is the house of poet Boris Pasternak. The writer was here when he found out he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 23, 1958.
House-museum of Pasternak in Peredelkino, Moscow Inside the house Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino, 1956 
Slava Petrakina 
Slava Petrakina 
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Tours in English and German, by appointment: +7 (495) 934-5175, +7 (926) 118-2858, pasternakmuz@mail.ru.
Express tours do not require an appointment.
Address: Peredelkino, 3 Pavlenko Street
goslitmuz.ru/museums/dom-muzey-b-l-pasternaka – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
2. Dostoevsky Apartment Museum
Dostoevsky lived in this apartment from 1823 to 1837. It became the writer's first museum. Here you can see the writer's desk from his last apartment, the Evangelie, which was given to him by wives of the Decembrists, and much more.
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruIn this house in Moscow located museum-apartment of Fyodor Dostoesvky
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruInside Dostoevsky's museum
State Tretyakov GalleryVasily Perov. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1872.
Overviews and thematic tours are available in English.
By appointment: +7 (495) 681-1085, dostoevskij_f_m@mail.ru
Address: 2 Dostoevsky Street (metro Dostoevsky)
goslitmuz.ru/museums/muzey-kvartira-f-m-dostoevskogo – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
3. Prishvin House Museum in Dunino
The Soviet prose writer Mikhail Prishvin acquired the summerhouse on a pictorial shore of the Moscow River in 1946 and lived his final years here. In addition to tours of the summerhouse and the writer's Moskvich-400 car, you can stroll along the alley lined with age-old linden and spruce trees.
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruHouse-museum of Mikhail Prishvin in Dunino, Moscow Region
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruInside Prishvin's house in Dunino
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruMikhail Prishvin
Tours in English are available: +7 (926) 014-6621, dunino@mail.ru
Address: Dunino, house #2
goslitmuz.ru/museums/dom-muzey-m-m-prishvina – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
4. Lermontov House Museum
This is the poet's only memorial house in Moscow that has been preserved to this day. Among the valuable exhibits are Lermontov's drawings: self-portraits, portraits of friends and relatives, and oil paintings with Caucasus landscapes.
Lermontov house-museum in Moscow Inside Lermontov's house Mikhail Lermontov, 1837 
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FineArt images
Tours "Lermontov in Moscow" and "Lermontov: life and creativity" are in English. By appointment: +7 (495) 691-5298, +7 (495) 691-1860, muz_lermontov@mail.ru
Address: 2 Malaya Molchanovka Street (metro Arbatskaya)
goslitmuz.ru/museums/dom-muzey-m-yu-lermontova – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
5. Chekhov House Museum
The writer lived in this stone, two-storied outbuilding from 1886 to 1890, when he departed for the Sakhalin Island. Guests of this "house-commode," as Chekhov himself called it, included the likes of artists Isaac Levitan and composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Being a doctor by trade, Chekhov not only wrote stories and plays here, but also saw patients.
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruAnton Chekhov house-museum in Moscow
Press photo / goslitmuz.ruInside Chekhov's house
wikipedia.org Osip Braz. Portrait of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, 1898
Tours in English: +7 (495) 691-6154, +7 (495) 691-3837, muzchekhov@gmail.com
Address: 6 Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, building 2 (metro Barrikadnaya)
www.goslitmuz.ru/museums/dom-muzey-a-p-chekhova – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
6. Bulgakov Museum
It was precisely in this "bad apartment," a former dormitory, that the protagonists of Master and Margarita lived. Today the apartment has resurrected the feel of the 1920s.
Press photo / www.museum.ruThe house on Bolshaya Sadovaya street in Moscow ,where Bulgakov lived, was built in 1902-1903.
Press photo / www.museum.ruBulgakov's apartment No 50
TASSMikhail Bulgakov
Overviews and thematic tours are available in English, German and Italian. +7 (495) 699-5366, bulgakovmuseum@gmail.com
Address: 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, 6th entrance, 4th floor, apartment 50 (metro Mayakovskaya)
bulgakovmuseum.ru – in English
7. Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House
The museum is located in the south wing of the Sheremetev Palace, a masterpiece of Russian Baroque. Here the Silver Age poetess lived for 30 years. The museum also houses "Joseph Brodsky's American Cabinet," which contains the poet's belongings from South Hadley, where he lived and taught.
Press photo / akhmatova.spb.ruEntrance into Akhmatova's apartment
Press photo / akhmatova.spb.ruDinning room
wikipedia.orgAnna Akhmatova
Press photo / akhmatova.spb.ruJoseph Brodsky's American Cabinet in Akhmatova's museum
Tours in English, German and French. Viewings of films about Akhmatova, Brodsky and other museum protagonists are in English. By appointment: +7 (812) 579-7239, akhmatova-museum@mail.ru
Audio guides are available in English, French, German, Italian and Finnish.
Address: 53 Liteiny Prospect (metro Mayakovskaya)
akhmatova.spb.ru – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
8. Leo Tolstoy Museum-Estate in Yasnaya Polyana
The estate where Tolstoy lived for most of his life is one of the most famous literary places in Russia. Every two years a reunion of the Tolstoy family takes place in Yasnaya Polyana, uniting the writer's descendants from various countries.
Courtesy of the British CouncilLeo Tolstoy's house in Yasnaya Polyana.
Press photo / Yasnaya Polyana museum-estateTolstoy's house in autumn
Open sourcesTolstoy working in his library at Yasnaya Polyana. Painted by V. Meshkov.
Tours and cultural programs in English, French and German: +7 (48751) 76-125, tour@tolstoy.ru
Audio guides in French and German are available for the central part of the estate. They can be downloaded onto your phone upon arrival.
Address: Tula Region, Shekino district, Yasnaya Polyana
ypmuseum.ru – in English and German
9. Ivan Turgenev Museum-Reserve in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo
If you've made it to Yasnaya Polyana, then be sure to stop by Spasskoye-Lutovinovo. It was here that Turgenev experienced his greatest inspiration, admitting that, "You write well only when you live in a Russian village."
Press photo / spasskoye-lutovinovo.ruNoble nest: Ivan Turgenev's house in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo
Press photo / spasskoye-lutovinovo.ruInside Turgenev's house in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo
TASSRussian writer Ivan Turgenev
Tours of the house-museum, the annex and park are in English and French: +7 (48646) 67-214, msmuzey@mce.orel.ru
Address: Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, 3 Muzeinaya Street
spasskoye-lutovinovo.ru – in Russian
www.russianmuseums.info – in English
10. Alexander Pushkin Museum-Reserve in Mikhailovskoye
The poet was exiled to Mikhailovskoye, where he spent much time writing. The estate still has his house and the house of his nanny, as well as an alley dedicated to Anna Kern, a beloved of his. The neighboring Trigorskoye and Petrovskoye estates, which the poet would visit, are also worth a look.
Press photo / pushkin.ellink.ruPushkin's house in Mikhailovskoye
Press photo / pushkin.ellink.ruMikhailovskoye landscapes
Painted by Pyotr KonchalovskyPushkin at Mikhailovskoye
Press photo / pushkin.ellink.ruNeighbors' estate Petrovskoye, where Pushkin was a frequent guest
Tours of the estate and the park in English and German. Also, it is possible to stay at the Pushkin Reserve guesthouses.
Address: Mikhailovskoye village. (From Moscow or St. Petersburg take the train to Pskov and then a bus to the Pushkin Hills)
By appointment: +7 (81146) 22-321, +7 (81146) 22-609, bilet1911@yandex.ru
pushkin.ellink.ru – in English
