The apartment museum of Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin is the only museum dedicated to the life and work of this prominent educator and book publisher. It is located in the apartment where Ivan Sytin lived with his family from 1928 to 1934.
In the history of Russian publishing, there was no figure more popular and more famous than Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin. Every fourth book published in Russia before 1917 was associated with his name, as well as the most widespread magazines and newspapers in the country. Millions of children learned to read from his alphabet books and millions of adults in the farthest corners of Russia got acquainted for the first time with the works of Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol and other Russian classics from his inexpensive editions.
The idea of establishing a museum in the apartment belonged to Sytin’s younger children — Dmitry, Anna and Olga. In 1986, the apartment and the collection they amassed were handed over to the All-Union Society of Book Lovers, and the museum was opened in 1989.
Since 2016, the museum has
been a part of the State Museum — Cultural Center “Integration” named after
Nikolai Ostrovsky.
