Many museums on the St. Petersburg tour may not be a priority for Russian tour operators. Still, those interested in individual literary and artistic styles are very eager to visit them. One of the reasons why many of St. Petersburg's tourist attractions are not included in the main Russia tour plans is the number of attractions in the city. While some attractions have particular popularity among the tourists of the tour to St. Petersburg, their value on tour to St. Petersburg is not high enough to convince Russian tour operators to include them on their plans. Travel agencies less consider many due to their long distance from the city's tourist center and some scattered fairs. Museums with many branches are in the most loss in this situation. For example, the National Pushkin Museum receives less attention from the travel agencies despite the importance of Alexander Pushkin's role in Russian literary history. However, many tourists interested in Russian literature, especially Alexander Pushkin himself, try to visit at least one of the National Pushkin Museum's branches during their travel to St. Petersburg. The Pushkin National Museum has about four different branches throughout St. Petersburg and its suburbs and is one of Russia's oldest literary museums. This museum, which is dedicated to the personal and professional life of Alexander Pushkin and some of the people who were close to him, is one of the complete collections of memorials for this great Russian poet. Various branches of the museum, some in St. Petersburg and some in the suburbs, include the Memorial Museum-Apartment of Alexander Pushkin, Memorial Museum-Apartment of Nikolay Nekrasov, Museum-Estate of Gavrila Derzhavin, and Memorial Lyceum Museum, which tourists can choose to visit each one of them during their travel to St. Petersburg.
Although National Pushkin Museum is not the only literary museum in St. Petersburg that tourists can visit during their tour to St. Petersburg, several other literary museums are popular among tourists of Russia tour, such as the Dostoyevsky Memorial Museum and Anna Akhmatova Memorial Museum; each one of these museums receives hundred thousands of visitors each year. Suppose you're interested to learn about these museums or other attractions of St. Petersburg. In that case, you can check out our weblog, in which we also provided useful tips and advice about how to travel to Russia.
Alexander Pushkin Museum and Memorial Apartment
The only apartment museum in St. Petersburg dedicated to Alexander Pushkin is where he lived in the most dramatic period of his life. in the former mansion of the Volkonsky princes, Alexander Pushkin spent the last four months of his life before died due to severe wounds after his duel with Dante. Tourists who visit Alexander Pushkin Museum during their tour to St. Petersburg will have the opportunity to see how Alexander Pushkin lived during the last months of his life. They can also see the original furniture of the house and the initial layout of the house from when he lived in it. Besides the personal belongings of Alexander Pushkin, there is an exhibition on the above floor in which tourists will learn about Alexander Pushkin's personal and professional life. This Apartment Memorial Museum of Alexander Pushkin is the central core of the National Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg. If you have any questions about this museum, such as what expect in this museum during your tour to St. Petersburg, you can find your answers on our weblog.
Nekrasov Apartment Museum
The Nekrasov Apartment Museum is one of the National Pushkin Museum branches, which is dedicated to one of the most prominent Russian poets of all time after Alexander Pushkin. Nikolay Nekrasov played a significant role in developing Russian literature journalism and was one of society's active members. He had always sympathized with the working class and labors in his poems; that's why he was considered a hero among society's working-class and respected during the Soviet era. Tourists who decide to the Nekrasov Apartment Museum have the opportunity to understand how he lived most of his life and how the journalism had developed in St. Petersburg since his house was also the editorial office of two significant literary magazines. You can learn more about Nikolai Nekrasov himself and his memorial museum on our weblog.
The Derzhavin Museum
Although Derzhavin was a soldier at first and he moved the ranks to become the Empress personal advisor, he was one of the most prominent poets of the 18th century, and his house was one of the cultural centers of St. Petersburg at the time. Derzhavin loved literature and was always fascinated by Russian literature. He held monthly literary meetings with like-minded nobles and literary lovers in his estate in St. Petersburg throughout the year. Today, that estate had become the Derzhavin Estate Museum, which has been restored to its initial look from when Derzhavin and his family were lived there in the second half of the 18th century. Tourists who visit this museum during their trip to Russia will have the opportunity to enjoy the magnificent estate look and learn about Derzhavin himself and his work in Russian literature. You can check our weblog for more information about this museum if you're interested in visiting it during your travel to Russia.
The Memorial Lyceum Museum
The last branch of the National Pushkin Museum is where Pushkin had studied and found most of his close friends, Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo. The Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, known as Pushkin, was an elite educational institution where most of the noble's sons studied there to become the future officials of the Russian Empire. Alexander Pushkin was among the first students in this institution who studied there for around six years. Since the Memorial Lyceum Museum is located in Pushkin, you can visit it during your tour to St. Petersburg. Tourists who visit this museum during their tour to Russia can learn about the 100-years-history of this significant place and the fate of people who have lived some part of their life in there both as student or teacher. You can visit our weblog to get more information about this institution if you're interested in seeing it during your journey.
The National Pushkin Museum isn't included on most of the tour to Russia plans because there are way more significant attractions in St. Petersburg that tourists should not miss the opportunity to see during their travel to St. Petersburg. However, If you're interested in Russian literature, you should visit one of these museums during your tour to St. Petersburg. You can learn more about each one of these museums and their location on our weblog.
