Paustovskiy's house-museum, Literary house museum in Tarusa, Russia.
Paustovsky's house-museum is a wooden residential building in Tarusa, a small town in central Russia, where the writer Konstantin Paustovsky lived and worked from 1955 until his death in 1968. The rooms still hold the furniture, books, and personal objects from that period, including the study where he wrote his final texts.
The house came to the family in 1955 through the writer's wife, Tatyana Arbuzova, and was transformed from a run-down building into a home where some of his most personal works took shape. After his death in 1968, it gradually became a memorial space open to visitors.
The house gives a sense of how a writer organized his daily life, balancing work and conversation in a small town far from Moscow. The objects left in the rooms, from books to personal items, reflect what mattered to him in his final years.
The museum sits on a street in Tarusa and is easy to find on foot from the town center. Guided tours are available and help make sense of the personal objects and handwritten documents on display.
A fire in 2010 damaged parts of the archive, but the main rooms came through unharmed. The restoration that followed allowed the space to be officially opened as a memorial for the first time.
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