In Elabuga, the last days of the famous Silver Age poet Marina Tsvetaeva took place. The memorial complex of the Elabuga Museum-Reserve is dedicated to her creativity, life, and tragic death. The museum attracts more than 40,000 tourists annually.

The Literary Museum named after Marina Tsvetaeva was opened in 2004 in an old wooden house on Kazanskaya Street. The museum's exhibition tells about the poetess's family, including her mother Alexandra Mein, a talented pianist, and her father Ivan Tsvetaev, a professor at Moscow University and founder of the Museum of Fine Arts, now the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Alexander Pushkin.

Visitors can learn about key events in Marina Tsvetaeva's life: her meeting with her future husband Sergey Efron, the publication of her first collections, and her emigration abroad. Letters and photographs of the Tsvetaev-Efron family tell about life in Czechoslovakia and France, as well as her return to the USSR. The museum features lifetime editions of works by Marina Ivanovna and her contemporaries, such as Anna Akhmatova, Nikolai Gumilev, Alexander Blok, Osip Mandelstam, and others.

The Literary Museum houses valuable exhibits, personal belongings of Tsvetaeva and her family: silver tea spoons, writing paper, a cameo gifted by her father, a dish from Germany, a powder box belonging to her daughter Ariadna, manuscripts, and documents. The museum also keeps a small lock of Tsvetaeva's hair.

In the year of the 110th anniversary of the poetess's birth, a Memorial Square with a bronze bust of Marina Tsvetaeva on a high granite pedestal was opened in Elabuga. In the house where she died, there is now a House of Memory. The memorial complex includes the Silver Age Library, the Pokrovsky Cathedral, Tsvetaeva's grave at the Peter and Paul Cemetery, and the museum "Portomoynya." Every two years, the International Tsvetaeva Readings are held at the Elabuga State Museum-Reserve.