Museum-apartment "A.T. Tvardovsky in Smolensk"

Hallway, house 4, apartment 26. A small room with the furnishings of the 50-60s of the last century is closely connected with the life and work of the great poet and has a rich history, which is very easy to touch, it is enough to cross the threshold of the museum.

In 1943, Alexander Tvardovsky came to Smolensk as a war correspondent for the newspaper Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda of the Western Front. On September 27, he and his parents, sisters and nephews moved into an apartment in Zapolny Lane. The poet lived here from September 1943 to March 1944, at the height of the war, while the newspaper was located near the city. These walls remember how the poem “House by the Road” was created, new chapters “Vasily Terkin” and “Beyond the distance – the distance”, front-line friends came here to Tvardovsky – the artist Orest Vereysky and the writer Evgeny Vorobyov.

In November 1990, Tvardovsky’s apartment became a museum created in memory of the poet’s stay in Smolensk. In addition to the furnishings carefully preserved by the sisters of Alexander Trifonovich, the exhibition presents various editions of the poet’s books, photographs, letters, drawings by O. Vereysky.

The museum-apartment holds literary meetings, evenings.