National Pushkin Museum

The National Pushkin Museum is a biographical museum in Saint Petersburg housed in a historic building on the Moika River embankment. It spans multiple locations across the city with personal items, manuscripts, and memorabilia from the life of the famous poet and other writers.

The museum was founded in 1879, beginning as a collection at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Saint Petersburg. Over time it grew into an extensive network of multiple locations dedicated to preserving the poet's works and personal records.

The museum displays how Pushkin and other Russian writers lived and worked during their era, showing objects from their daily lives. Visitors see personal items that bring the world of these authors to life.

The museum is located at several sites across the city, with the main venue and a memorial apartment where Pushkin spent his final days. It helps to plan ahead which locations you want to visit since they are spread throughout the city.

The museum preserves exceptional personal items including the desk where the poet worked, his death mask, and a lock of his hair. These intimate objects serve as reminders of the human side of one of Russia's most important poets.