Музей-дача Пушкина
After marrying Natalia Nikolayevna Goncharova, Pushkin wanted to spend his first family summer in Tsarskoe Selo, among the sacred memories of his lyceum youth. He asked his friend Pletnev to hire here “the cheaper, the better, of course,” and without a garden, because “under the side they will be garden. The friend rented for Pushkin eight rooms in this one-story wooden house with a veranda and balcony, not far from the palaces and parks of Tsarskoye Selo. The house was built in 1827 by architect Gornostaev and belonged to the widow of the court valet Kitaeva. Pushkins lived at this dacha from May to October 1831
.The museum was opened here in 1958. The uniqueness of the museum-dacha is that time and fate miraculously preserved to our days an authentic wooden house, which remembers Pushkin within its walls. The interiors of the rooms themselves are reconstructed according to the memories of contemporaries. The mezzanine of the house recreates the poet’s study, where “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Onegin’s Letter to Tatiana” and other works were written. In two rooms that were added to the mansion later, there is a separate exhibition dedicated to the stay in Tsarskoe Selo of Pushkin’s older contemporaries and literary mentors – Karamzin and Zhukovsky.
.Visitors
- Pushkin, Pushkinskaya St., 2 .
- Tel. 476-69-90
- Open daily, except Mon, Tues and the last Friday of each month, from 10.30 to 18.00, the ticket office is open until 17.30 .
- Inspection – 20-30 min .
- Entrance (with excursion service) – 50 p., preferential – 30 p. Foreigners -100 p.
