L.N. Tolstoy Museum-Estate in Khamovniki
The Leo Tolstoy House-Museum "Khamovniki" is an ancient Moscow estate located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow at 21 Leo Tolstoy Street. Surrounded by modern buildings, it represents a preserved oasis of …
Museum-Estate of L. N. Tolstoy 'Nikolskoe-Vyazemskoe'
Nikolskoe-Vyazemskoe, the ancestral estate of the Tolstoy family, belonged to the writer's ancestors on his father's side. It is located south of Yasnaya Polyana, in the Chern district, on the border with the Oryol regio…
F.M. Dostoevsky Museum-Apartment (Moscow)
The museum is located in the northern wing of the former Mariinsky hospital for the poor, built in 1806 by architects I. Zhilyardi and A. Mikhailov based on a design by D. Quarenghi in the style of late Russian classicis…
The House of Bryusov
On Mira Avenue, near the entrance to the Apothecary Garden, there is a small mansion in the Art Nouveau style, which is a well-known memorial monument in Moscow, the home of poet Valery Bryusov. Here, Bryusov lived the l…
Saint Petersburg School for the Deaf-Mute
Originally, Gorokhovaya Street stretched to the Moika River, and on the opposite bank was a large plot owned by the Musins-Pushkins. In 1737, a road was laid here and the Red Bridge was built.
After Count Platon Ivanovi…
Chekhov in Nice
In Nice, there are about two hundred hotels, but one of them is especially dear to Russians. This is the small hotel "Oasis," located at 23 Gounod Street, painted in a pleasant yellow color. In the late 19th century, the…
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum (Tver)
The memorial-literary museum of Saltykov-Shchedrin, where the writer lived for two years, is located near the embankment in Tver. In the 1860s, Mikhail Yevgrafovich served as the vice-governor of Tver and lived in a ston…
M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum (Spas-Ugol)
The museum is located in the ancestral estate of the Saltykovs, the birthplace of the writer Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin, in the Taldom urban district of the Moscow region. The exhibition titled "Poshekhonska…
Kazan Ambrose Women's Monastery in Shamordino
The Shamordino monastery was founded in 1884 by the Venerable Ambrose of Optina according to the will of his spiritual daughter, nun Ambrosia (Klyuchareva, 1818-1881), and with her funds. Even during her lifetime, she ca…
Church of the Holy Trinity of Kazan Ambrosiev Desert
In the Trinity Church, the first temple of the Shamordinsky Monastery, the founder of the monastery, Elder Ambrose, prayed before the miraculous image of the Most Holy Theotokos.
Until 1889, the church was located on th…
