When the writer’s house was being restored after the Great Patriotic War, the alcove in the study was completed in 1944–1946, so the room was used both as a study and as a bedroom. In the alcove is the writer’s bed — the place where he rested and worked at night in his later years. Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky was going through cancer, and the treatment was not helping. The writer suffered excruciating pain from bandages and tamponades but still kept on working till the end of his life.

On December 3, 1958, Sergeyev-Tsensky died in his bed at the age of 83. There is a nightstand at the head of the bed and it has a desk lamp and an alarm clock on it. The clock shows 20:05, which is the time of the writer’s death.

In this article, the writer also wrote about the Russian language,

The arrangement of the bed and the rest of the study demonstrates the writer’s simple nature and self-discipline. Above the bed, there are portraits of Maxim Gorky and Ilya Repin — friends of Sergeyev-Tsensky, as well as a study “Cossack Playing the Bandura”, which was a gift from Repin.