The Pushkin Apartment Museum

Adress: Moika Embankment, 12, St. Petersburg, 191186
Nearest metro station: Nevsky Prospect (access to the Griboedov Canal), Admiralteyskaya.
Public transport:
On foot from Nevsky Prospekt metro station (access to the Griboedov Canal) or Admiralteyskaya: walk to the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Moika and turn onto the embankment.
From Nevsky Prospekt station, the journey will take you no more than 15 minutes, from Admiralteyskaya - no more than 10.
Entrance to the main gate, in the courtyard turn left. Here you will see a staircase to the basement. This is the apartment of the great poet.

Opening hours:
Ffrom 10:30 to 18:00
Day off: Tuesday, last Friday of the month.

The museum stores a lot of genuine things, which, decades later, have again taken their former places here. The poet’s desk and his favorite Voltaire’s chair, a travel casket and a desk, canes and a smoking pipe, an inkwell — all these and other objects today remind of the life of Alexander Pushkin. In the poet’s wife’s room you can see her portrait, made in 1832 by A.P. Bryullov, as well as her perfume bottle, coral bracelet, purses embroidered with beads and silk, and other memorabilia.

The Pushkin apartment museum is a part of the vast literary heritage of St. Petersburg. A lot of creative people and scientists lived in the city — it was called The cultural capital of Russia. Many great poets influenced the history of St. Petersburg, and today in the city there are many different museums that will introduce us to these people. If you want to know more about the literary heritage of St. Petersburg — we invite you to our special tour.