Anna Akhmatova Museum

Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg

The Anna Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg was opened on June 24, 1989, on the 100th anniversary of the poetess’ birth. The museum occupies a communal apartment on the third floor of the southern wing of the Sheremetev Palace on the Fontanka, where the poetess lived for 30 years with a break for evacuation to Tashkent. The entrance to it leads not from the front side, but from Liteiny Prospekt. To the left of the gate there is a monument to Anna Akhmatova in the form of a gray stele with a protruding female silhouette. The Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House attracts fans of her work and tourists. Here it was possible to recreate the atmosphere and atmosphere of the early XX century, things, clothes and letters of the poetess are preserved. In the walls of this apartment Akhmatova created many works, including the poem “Requiem”. In the same building you can visit the museum-apartment of Lev Gumilev and the “American study of Joseph Brodsky.”