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Gosudarstvennyi muzei A.S. Pushkina (GMP)


History
The museum honoring the Russian poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799–1837) was founded in 1957, and opened to the public in 1961. It occupies an early nineteenth-century detached house that is a designated architectural landmark—the Khrushchev-Seleznev Estate (“Usad'ba Khrushchevykh-Seleznevykh”), which was built in 1814–1817 on the design of A. Grigor'ev.
        Archival materials in the museum are held in a number of different divisions or sectors.
        The museum has four affiliated branches:
                (1) The Pushkin Memorial Apartment on the Arbat (Memorial'naia kvartira Pushkina na Arbate), which is located in the house of N.N. Khitrovo, where Pushkin lived from February to May 1831 after his marriage, and which opened as a memorial museum in 1986. (121002, Moscow, ul. Arbat, 53; tel.: +7 499 241-92-95; e-mail: [email protected]; webpages: http://www.pushkinmuseum.ru/?q=node/4; http://www.museum.ru/M322). The Photograph Archive is located there (see below).
                (2) The Andrei Belyi Memorial Apartment on the Arbat (Memorial'naia kvartira Andreia Belogo na Arbate) (webpage: http://www.pushkinmuseum.ru/?q=node/3; see below).
                (3) The Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Museum (Muzei Ivana Sergeevicha Turgeneva), which is located in the house of his mother V.P. Lutovinova (Moscow, ul. Ostozhenka, 37; tel. +7 495 695-10-78; e-mail: [email protected]; webpage: http://www.pushkinmuseum.ru/?q=conten...).
                (4) The Vasilii L’vovich Pushkin House (Dom Vasiliia L'vovicha Pushkina), Pushkin’s uncle. (Moscow, ul. Staraia Basmannaia, 36; tel.: +7 499 263-10-57; webpage: http://www.pushkinmuseum.ru/?q=node/2).

N.B. The museum is undergoing major renovation in preparation for the bicentennial of Pushkin’s birth in 1999. Note that other Pushkin materials collected in Moscow had been transferred to Leningrad in 1947 and are now held either in Pushkinskii Dom (IRLI—E–28) or in the All-Russian A.S. Pushkin Museum (H–250).


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