The Literary Museum of the Pushkin House is one of the first literary museums in Russia. It was founded in 1905.
The Regulations on the Pushkin House as a new academic institution was approved by Nicholas II on July 14, 1907. The Regulations set forth the concept of a special type of institution based on scientific collections, including a museum collection, “The Pushkin House is established in reverent memory of the great Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin to collect everything that concerns Pushkin as a writer and a person.” The museum, as one of the foundations of the Pushkin House, along with the manuscript department, was called upon to collect, study and display everything that would give this place the significance of the “pantheon museum of Russian literature”.
In Soviet times, the museum’s selected collections
became the basis for the creation of several literary and memorial museums in
our country: the All-Russian Pushkin Museum, including the Apartment-Museum of
Nikolay Nekrasov in St. Petersburg, the Pushkin Reserve in Pushkinskiye Gory, and
the Apartment-Museum of Alexander Blok in St. Petersburg.
