Literary Culture

Literary culture explores how a society celebrates its literary accomplishments. The section contains resources about book shops in Eurasia – which also often function as cultural institutions themselves with readings, author presentations, and more. You’ll find below information about literary museums as well as authors’ house museums (preserved former residences, open to the public).

November 26, 2018

The Alexander Blok Apartment Museum

Alexander Blok’s former apartment is now part of a two-floor museum complex. Blok was one of Russia’s primer Silver Age poets, and his museum shows not only how he worked, but also gives some indication of the emotionally extreme but also socially well-connected life he led. The museum is located in the historic Kolomna district […]

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The Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature (The Pushkin House)

The Memorial Museum-Apartment of Nikolai Nekrasov

The Dostoevsky Memorial Apartment Museum in St. Petersburg

The Alexander Pushkin Museum and Memorial Apartment in St. Petersburg

Petersburg with Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman

The Moscow Book Festival

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