Museums

Derzhavin museum is his house, garden and greenhouse. It was restored for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg and the exhibition was opened at 16 of its rooms, which were present, including items from the personal wardrobe of the poet. From the late 18th to early 19th centuries, his mansion was focused throughout the secular life of the city, there is a monthly meeting held fans of Russian literature. Subsequently, he was given spiritual board at the residence of the archbishop, and in the...

It opened in 1939 and, since that date, actively filled by individual exhibits and objects of cultural heritage. In 1930 part of the tombstones Smolensk Armenian cemetery was moved to the museum. Since the 30-ies in the management of the museum passed a number of historical sites, including sites on the territory of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Since the beginning of the 1970s. as part of the museum there is a restoration workshop in stone. According to the order of the mayor of St. Petersburg...

Anna Akhmatova Museum opened on the centenary of the poet, in the Fountain House, which was formerly part of the Sheremetev Palace. In the pre-war period are stationed House of entertaining science, but it was destroyed during bombezhek.Sperva museum was only part of the Dostoevsky museum, but later outgrew an independent predpriyatie.Vsyu exposure can be divided into two parts: memorial (which can be viewed as a living Akhmatova) and literary-historical. At present collection has more than 50...

Chaliapin House Museum is another branch of the Museum of Theatre and Music The exhibition can be divided into two parts. One is dedicated to life and work of the famous singer (including his belongings and theatrical costumes) and the other shows the life of opera houses in XVIIIth to XXth century. The museum itself was opened in 1975 in the apartment where the singer lived the last years before the exile. After World War II all his property moved to the Theatre Museum and the apartment...

This very young museum was founded in 1997 by a well-known circus artist Vladimir Deryabkin. Traveling to different countries on tour, he managed to gather quite an impressive collection of more than 300 exhibits, which are separated through the halls of the first-in-history of their origin, where you can see the prototype of the first plate-wax cylinders, exhibits of the early 20th century, which still play a variety of melodies, music boxes and other exotic items that Deryabkin found...

The museum is the successor and guardian of the first collections of medical museums of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. His collection originates from the collection of tools Artisan house, founded by Peter I, collections of Surgical, Pirogov and Military museums health. The museum was founded in 1942 in Moscow. He was subsequently moved to Leningrad, where in 1951 opened its doors to visitors. According wealth funds, reflecting the development of medicine and the activities of its...