State Literary and Memorial Museum of N. Ostrovsky

Fans of history and literature can visit the historical, art, ethnographic museums, the memorial museum of the writer N.A. Ostrovsky. In the thick greenery of cypresses and laurels in the alley bearing the writer’s name, there was a small house where Nikolai Ostrovsky lived from May to October 1936, where he finished work on the novel How Steel Was Tempered and began to write the first volume of the book Born by a Storm. A few months after his death, a museum was opened here. Nearby in the pavilion there is a library named after N.A. Ostrovsky, and on the Resort Avenue there is a high relief with memorable words from the book “How steel was hardened”: “The most expensive thing for a person is life. It is given to him once, and it is necessary to live it in such a way that it is not painfully painful for aimlessly lived years. The museum, the “school of courage”, is visited by tens of thousands of tourists every year. The museum occupies 1018 sq.m. area, has 550 sq.m. exposition and exhibition areas, more than 37 thousand museum items. In its collections: book rarities, household items, applied art of the late XIX century - the first half of the twentieth century, documents, iconography, numismatics of the Soviet era, painting, graphics. The museum has three objects of display: the Memorial House of N. Ostrovsky. Built as a gift to the writer from the government of the USSR in 1935. Typical for the country architecture of Sochi 30-ies of the building, the authentic atmosphere of the Ostrovsky family; a unique library; rare documents; photographs. The literary part of the museum. The building was built in 1956. It presents an exhibition on the literary history of Sochi, associated with the names of A. Odoevsky, A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, V. Mayakovsky, M. Zoshchenko, etc. The museum constantly exhibits exhibitions of fine art from the collections of the central museums of Russia, the International Center of the Roerichs, private collections. House-museum of classic Estonian literature A.-H. Tammsaare. Located in the village of Esto-Sadok on Krasnaya Polyana, on the outskirts of Sochi. The exposition, housed in an authentic house of the beginning of the century (built before 1910), presents ancient books, photographs, household utensils, crafts, folk tools, documents, clothes illustrating the history of Estonian immigrants and the arrival of a famous novelist in the Caucasus.