Memorial Museum-Apartment of N.A. Nekrasov

The house is forever associated with the name of one of the most famous Russian poets. Nekrasov lived in this house from 1857 until his death in 1877. All these years in the apartment of the poet was the editorial office of two progressive and popular magazines: “Contemporary” and “Notes of the Fatherland”.

According to P.A. Haideburg, “the history of these rooms is the history of literary relations of an entire era, the history of Russian journalism.” In the apartment Nekrasov was the whole color of Russian literature of the second half of the XIX century: I.S. Turgenev, L.N. Tolstoy, A.N. Ostrovsky, F.M. Dostoevsky and others.

The memorial museum-apartment of N.A. Nekrasov was opened in 1946. In the exhibition halls you can now see portraits of the poet, made by outstanding Russian artists I.N. Kramsky, K.E. Makovsky, as well as portraits and photographs of his famous contemporaries.

Of particular value is the collection of personal belongings, draft versions of manuscripts and white autographs of poems, poems, which are supplemented by illustrations created by famous Russian artists during the life of N.A. Nekrasov.

In the "Panaev half" there are materials telling about one of the most prominent representatives of Russian literature - I.I. Panayev.