The house where Mikhail Bulgakov lived was built in 1862 and was owned by the merchant Ivan Stepanovich Reshetnikov until the October Revolution.
In 1924, the architect Adolf Frantsevich Stuy began remodeling the house for future rentals. In 1927, after the huge success of the play “The Days of the Turbins” Bulgakov became able to rent a separate dwelling in the rebuilt mansion and rented apartment No. 6 which consisted of three rooms, with a kitchen, a bathroom and an anteroom. This was the first dwelling where Bulgakov had his own study. This room survived the remodeling and retained its size and proportions. Five desks are placed in the study, each of them is a special view of the writer’s work and a way to read his texts. The living room (also known as the dining room) and the small room of the second wife Lyubov Belozerskaya have changed their outlines as a result of the remodeling of the late 1950s. Exhibits related to Mikhail Bulgakov’s life in Bolshaya Pirogovskaya in 1927–1934 are collected here.
Part of the hall was formerly occupied by the small kitchen, anteroom and bathroom of the Bulgakovs’ apartment, demolished when the first floor was remodeled in the late 1950s.
Behind the wall, where the exhibition hall is now located and temporary exhibitions are held, there used to be an apartment where Lyubov Belozerskaya moved after her divorce from Bulgakov.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
