Museum of Nikolai Ostrovsky

At the end of the 80s of the XVIII century, a house in the classicism style was built on Tverskaya Street according to the project of architect Matvey Kazakov. The house belonged to Ekaterina Kozitskaya, one of the richest women of Russia of the XVIII century. Later, the house as a dowry went to her younger daughter Anna, who became the second wife of diplomat Alexander Beloselsky-Belozersky.

At the end of 1824, the daughter of Beloselsky-Belozersky from the first marriage of Zinaida settled in this house, which turned the house into a real temple of arts. Here she brought her father’s collection, where there were originals and copies of famous paintings. Here she held literary salons, which gathered famous writers of that time: Pushkin, Vyazemsky, Baratynsky, Devitte and many others.

In 1898, the house was acquired by merchant Grigory Eliseev. The building is being rebuilt, and on the ground floor the Yeliseevsky store, which existed for more than a century and was closed only in April 2021, opens. After the nationalization in 1918, the residential part of the building was used for apartments.

In 1935, the writer Nikolai Ostrovsky and his wife moved to apartment No. 39.