Lev Gumilev Apartment Museum, Biographical museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Lev Gumilev Apartment Museum occupies a Saint Petersburg residence displaying everyday objects, writings, and original furnishings from the space. The apartment documents a period of significant intellectual work by the Russian historian and ethnographer.
The apartment is where Lev Gumilev, historian and son of poets Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilev, lived from 1990 until his death in 1992. His widow, artist Natalia Gumileva, gave the flat for a museum right after his death, but it opened only in 2004 as a branch of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fontanka House. On 1 June 2025 it closed for a renewal of the display.
The residence reveals how a major 20th-century thinker worked and lived within his personal space. The rooms convey a sense of Gumilev's academic life and intellectual pursuits during those formative years.
The museum is a branch of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fontanka House, in the apartment where Lev Gumilev lived from 1990 to 1992. It opened in 2004, years after his widow, the artist Natalia Gumileva, handed over the flat right after his death. On 1 June 2025 it closed for a renewal of the display, so check before travelling.
The apartment was handed over for a museum by Gumilev's widow, the artist Natalia Gumileva (Simonovskaya), right after his death, but it opened only in 2004. Part of the display concerns his father, the poet Nikolai Gumilev, and the Tagantsev case, which led to his execution.
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