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

The Literary Museum of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences is often just called “The Pushkin House” for short. It provides, essentially, an overview course on Russian canonical writers from the Golden Age through the end of Russia’s Silver Age. It achieves this by displaying original manuscripts and personal belongings […]

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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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