Want to check out a few museums while touring the city? Most museums keep varying hours, where many are not open on Mondays and Tuesdays. Keep in mind that the last entry to the museum is usually an hour before closing time. There are a bunch of literary museums to explore throughout Moscow, offering small museums dedicated to Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Gorky, as well as a variety of other Russian writers.
Bulgakov Applied to Stalin in 1930 for permission to emigrate - he was sent to the Moscow Arts Theater instead. In 1932, the ban on Day of the Turbines was lifted. Master and Marguerita was finished in 1940, but only published in 1966.
Dostoyevsky lived as a boy in the grounds of the Mariya Hospital, where his father was a doctor.
Vladimir Gilyarovski Moscow and the Muscovites described the Moscow before the revolution.
Gogol portrayed the writer and director Zagoskin unkindly in The Government Inspector
Gorky returned to Moscow in 1931, although he only wrote one more play, Yegor Balichev and others and part of a novel, Life of Klim Samgin.
Mayakovsky futurist, in 1912 publishws 'A Slap in the Face of Public Taste'. Bed Bug. Bath House.
Nikolai Ostrovsky How the Steel was Tempered is semi-autobiographical.
Boris Pasternak lived in the annex of the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture where his father was a teacher.
Solzhenitsyn lives west of Moscow, in Troitse-Lykovo, since returning in 1994.
Novy Mir published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch under Kruschev, and 1984 under glasnost.
DOSTOYEVSKY MUSEUM
The museum is located in the building where the writer lived during the period 1823-1837. On display there are some photos, documents and his personal belongings.
Anton CHEKHOV MUSEUM and house
A small, two-story detached house of terracotta color and unusual design was built in 1873. Chekhov himself called it "chert house". He lived and worked there in 1886-1890. Many of his stories and plays were written in this house. The building survived the reconstruction of Moscow of the 30’s and the Chekhov’s Museum was established in the house in 1954.
MAXIM GORKI HOUSE
The house is a masterpiece of the art-nouveau style of architecture. It was built for the merchant Riabushinski at the beginning of the 20th century. Later Stalin gave it to Maxim Gorki, his favorite "proletarian" writer. Here Gorki spent his last years (1931-1936). The museum is interesting both as a Gorki museum and as an architectural monument.
GLINKA MUSEUM
The museum is unique for its great collection of musical instruments of all times and nations. There is an interesting archive and a manuscript division as well. All musical instruments are in the working order. There is a concert hall in the museum where one can enjoy music of different epochs. Some special tours devoted to a certain epoch can be arranged there.
TOLSTOY HOUSE IN KHAMOVNIKY
The mansion has been preserved just as it was at the times when Leo Tolstoy lived there with his family from 1882 to 1901. It was built in 1808 and survived the Napoleon invasion. For nearly 20 years the writer spent the winter months there, leaving for Yasnaya Poliana in the summer. A big number of his works was written in this house, including the novel "Resurrection" and the plays "The Living Corpse", "The Power of Darkness" and "The Fruits of Enlightenment".
