The Alexander Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg is a monument to the great Russian poet of the eighteenth century. The museum was founded in 1879, and was meant to be a monument to Pushkin and his life's work. The museum has on display almost all of Pushkin's personal belongings including his book collection and portraits painted of him by many prominent Russian artists.
The museum is housed in four different buildings and includes a huge literary exposition, the Puskin apartment, and a replica of the Pushkin country home. The Alexander Pushkin museum is probably the world's largest museum strictly devoted to a single literary figure. The museum has over ten thousand items on display, and gives visitors a very good idea of what it must have been like in St. Petersburg during Pushkin's time.
The students of the Alexander Lyceum (a school for boys of noble families) originally established the Alexander Pushkin Museum. The museum is housed in the building in which the Lyceum existed, in the village called Tsarskoye Selo. This is where Pushkin first started writing poems and gained his fame. The grounds surrounding the museum and buildings are meticulously maintained and beautiful.
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Not only does Pushkin haunt the streets of St. Petersburg, but other famous Russian writers, such as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, do as well. Their spirits are alive and well in the minds of anyone who reads one of their novels or poems. A cultural tour of St. Petersburg includes the Pushkin Museum as part of its schedule of cultural and artistic sites. While in St. Petersburg, you will not want to miss this monument to one of Russia's great writers.
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