Lermontov museum, Literary museum in Taman, Russia.

The Lermontov Museum occupies a single-storey whitewashed cottage with a thick thatched straw roof overhanging the front wall, on Lermontova Street, 5, in Taman. Its facade holds a slit window, a narrow cross-framed window, a plaque, an open dark wooden door and a small square window, with a low concrete bench along the base. The yard recreates the Cossack homestead of Fyodor Mysnik, where the poet stayed in 1837 and 1840.

Lermontov stayed in Taman in 1837 and 1840 while being exiled to the Caucasus. The original cottage where he lodged was destroyed in 1855 during the Crimean War; in 1858 Semyon Mysnik rebuilt it with a changed layout. The museum opened on 25 October 1976, its reconstruction based on Yefim Felitsyn's 1879 sepia photograph and Lermontov's own drawing "Taman. The Little House on the Cliff".

The museum recreates the Cossack farmstead of Fyodor Mysnik, where the poet stayed, using Yefim Felitsyn's 1879 sepia photograph and Lermontov's own pencil drawing "Taman. The Little House on the Cliff" as guides. Its library, the "Museum of the Lermontov Book", holds volumes signed by writers and poets from the USSR and other countries. A monument to Lermontov was unveiled in the adjoining square in September 1984, for the 170th anniversary of his birth.

The museum stands at Lermontova Street 5 in the centre of Taman, on the steep bank above the Taman Bay of the Azov Sea. The recreated Cossack homestead is a single-storey whitewashed cottage with a thick thatched roof, an open door and a low concrete bench along the front wall. Nearby in the square are the 1984 Lermontov monument, a memorial to the Taman Cossacks and the Pokrov Church. Allow time to walk the yard and outbuildings as well as the cottage.

The reconstruction used two sources: a sepia photograph taken in 1879 by the Kuban historian Yevgeny Felitsyn and Lermontov's own pencil drawing "Taman. The Little House above the Cliff". The writer Nikolai Velengurin and the architect Alexei Abolonin drew up the plan for the farmstead.