The Museum of Childhood of A. M. Gorky ("Kashirina House")

The Museum of childhood of A.M. Gorky “Kashirin House” was opened on January 1, 1938 The House of Gorky’s grandfather, Nizhny Novgorod philistine, foreman of the dye shop, vowel of the Nizhny Novgorod Duma V.V. Kashirin is a monument of history and culture of federal significance, a place associated with the writer’s childhood years (1871–72), the place of action of Gorky’s autobiographical novel “Childom”, one of the outstanding works of world literature of the XX century, a kind of an encyclopedia of Russian characters and national way of life. The house is a 1-storey cabin, sheathed and unpainted, with 5 rooms: kitchen, grandfather's room, grandmother's room, the room of Mikhail, the eldest son of the Kashirins, and uncle Alesha Peshkov, glued - the lower "working" room, where lived in August 1871 - spring 1872 little Alyosha with his mother after their arrival from Astrakhan.

The exposition is based on authentic items of everyday life of the XIX century, including memorial items belonging to the Kashirin-Peshkov family. The unique authentic atmosphere of the house in the natural historical environment, where the old wooden buildings and fragments of the memorial landscape have been preserved, allows to fully imagine the lifestyle of the Kashirin family, in which the spiritual formation of the future writer Maxim Gorky took place in early childhood; gives significant information about the life of the Nizhny Novgorod philistines of the XIX century.