Memorial Museum-Apartment of A.N. Tolstoy

A.N. Tolstoy lived in a house on Spiridonovka from 1941 to 1945. Here the 3rd book of the novel “Peter I” was written, the novel “Walking through Torment”, the cycle “Stories of Ivan Sudarev”, military journalism was completed. The house has fully preserved the furnishings of the office, living room and adjacent corridors. In the study, many works of fine and decorative arts are directly related to the work on Peter’s theme: they gave a feel of the color of the depicted historical era. These are portraits of Peter I, Catherine I, Hetman Daniel the Apostle, a picturesque canvas with images of sailing frigates, casts of the lifetime mask of Peter I, scribe inkwells, candlesticks, ship clocks. In the bookcases there is a unique collection of books from the working library of A.N. Tolstoy, works of Russian and foreign classics, Soviet writers, books on art, folklore, Russian and universal history, literature about the eras of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and the Civil War. Many books contain the writer’s notes.

Items included in the interior - antique furniture, painting, lamps, porcelain - are selected by the owner of the house with taste and deep knowledge of antiquity. In the house were K. Chukovsky, I. Erenburg, I. Andronikov, A. Tvardovsky, P. Korin, I. Moskvin, V. Kachalov, S. Mikhoels, I. Kozlovsky, P. Kapitsa, G. Ulanova and other figures of art, literature, science.