Muzeĭ-kvartira F.M. Dostoevskogo, Biographical museum in Maryina Roshcha District, Moscow, Russia.
Muzeĭ-kvartira F.M. Dostoevskogo is a biographical museum in the Maryina Roshcha District of Moscow, housed in the left wing of the former Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor, where the Dostoevsky family lived from 1821 to 1837. The memorial apartment recreates the rooms of his childhood: a vaulted entry hall, a room shared by Fyodor and his brother Mikhail with a white tiled stove, and a drawing room with early 19th-century furniture.
The Dostoevsky family lived in the left wing of the Mariinsky Hospital from 1821 to 1837, when Fyodor left for St. Petersburg. The museum opened there on 11 November 1928, founded by Vera Nechaeva for the 107th anniversary of his birth, and joined the State Literary Museum in 1940.
The flat is a reconstruction: the interiors were recreated largely from the memoirs of Dostoevsky's younger brother Andrei, who described the rooms in detail. The working hall holds 18 chairs upholstered in green morocco, two card tables and a large dining table. A lithograph of Orlovsky's "Feldyegerskaya troyka" hangs here, and the room served as dining room and parents' study at once.
The museum sits within the Mariinsky Hospital complex, and the entrance is most easily found by walking through the main courtyard. Visiting on a weekday tends to be quieter and gives more time to look at the rooms without feeling rushed.
The museum occupies the left wing of the Mariinsky Hospital, where the Dostoevsky family moved in 1822 and lived until 1837. In 1936 a granite statue of the writer by Sergey Merkurov, first placed on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, was set up in the hospital courtyard; Merkurov modelled some of his preparatory busts on the singer Alexander Vertinsky.
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