Museums. Memorial houses
Blok Memorial Apartment Museum
Former home of great Russian poet Alexander Blok. Museum opened in 1980. Original interiors, personal effects, documents; conferences, lectures, excursions.
Dekabristov ul., 57
Tel: 713-86-31
Ticket office: Mo, Th-Su 11-17, Tu 11-17; closed last Tu of the month;
Sennaya Ploshchad
Brodsky Memorial Apartment Museum
Contains about 800 works of art by 19th - early 20th century masters.
Iskusstv pl., 3
Tel: 314-36-58
Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum
Home of Fyodor Dostoevsky from October 1878 until the day of his death. Visitors can get familiar with Dostoevsky's life and creative activity, visit exhibitions of contemporary art, see performances based on Dostoevsky's novels.
Kuznechnyy per., 5/2
Tel: 571-40-31
Ticket office: 764-69-50
Kuindzhi Apartment Museum
Home and studio of Russian painter Kuindzhi
Birzhevoy per., 1/10, kv. 11
Tel: 323-31-33
Nabokov Museum
Memorial rooms with exhibits devoted to Nabokov's life and creative activity
Bolshaya Morskaya ul., 47
Tel: 315-47-13
Nekrasov Memorial Apartment Museum
The museum exposition tells about life and creative work of Nekrasov and his contemporaries. Displays Nekrasov's and Panaev's personal effects and interior.
Liteynyy pr., 36
Tel: 272-01-65
Ticket office: Mo, We-Su 11-17; closed last Fr of the month;
Chernyshevskaya
Pushkin Apartment Museum
The last apartment of Alexander Pushkin, where Russia's great poet died on January 29, 1837, beeing mortally wounded in a duel. Personal effects of Pushkin and his family are displayed.
Moyki r. nab., 12
Tel: 571-35-31
Ticket office: Mo, We-Su 10:30-17; closed last Fr of the month;
Nevskiy Prospekt
Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Apartment Museum
Home of the great 19th century composer; chamber music concerts
Zagorodnyy pr., 28, flr. 3
Tel: 713-32-08
Ticket office: We-Su 11-17:30; closed last Fr of the month;
Vladimirskaya
Shalyapin Memorial Apartment Museum
Graftio ul., 2b
Tel: 234-10-56
Ticket office: We-Su 12-18; closed last Fr of the month;
Petrogradskaya