St. Petersburg the city of museums, according to its locals and citizens, is one of the main targets in Russia tour because of the number of the St. Petersburg attractive places. There are enough attractions inside St. Petersburg and its suburban area to make some tourists only to visit St. Petersburg on their travel to Russia. Though having this many attractions in one city is quite beneficial in most parts, you may not have enough time to visit all of them on your trip to Russia. It’s the primary reason why most tourists have trusted Russia tour operators to organize their trip, but you can also learn about the attractions of St. Petersburg before you begin your travel so you would choose the places you want to visit on your tour to Russia.
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There are lots of small attractions and museum left out of the St. Petersburg tour due to the number of major attractions in the city, such as the State Museum of Theatre and Music and all of its branches, but there are lots of tourists who would love to check out the history of Russian art and literary on their travel to Russia. One of the significant literary museums in St. Petersburg is the Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum, which was part of the Dostoevsky Memorial Museum at first, but currently is an individual museum within the Sheremetev Palace.
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko was one of the greatest Soviet Russian poets in the 20th century, who had written under the pen-name of Anna Akhmatova. She is admired as one of the first storytellers of the misery and sorrow experienced by the city during the Great Purge and the Second World War. She was born in 1889 in Odesa, and one of the artists who had chosen not to emigrate during the Soviet era because she wanted to feel the pain and suffering of the people from up close; her voice on the besieged Leningrad’s local radio, when she read her poems, was one of the few things that brought hope to the people. Though her work was heavily censored by the Stalinist officials, one of the greatest works of her is the “Requiem,” in which she expresses her feeling and reality about the Stalinist terror. She died in 1966 at the age of 76 in Moscow.
Akhmatova had lived in the Sheremetev Palace - which she mentioned it in her works as the Fountain House - from 1918 to 1952; at first, she lived in the northern garden back from 1918 to 1920, but then she moved to the southern wing and lived there until 1952. The Sheremetev Palace was occupied by the noble family of Sheremetev for five generations, and Akhmatova’s second husband was the teacher of the family's children before they fled from the country on the edge of the October Revolution; she had lived with him for two years in his apartment on the northern garden, then she moved to the southern wing with her third husband, the art historian Nikolai Punin, where now hosts the Anna Akhmatova Memorial Museum. Though the Sheremetev Palace is now hosting the Museum of Music under the direction of the State Museum of Theatre and Music, the southern wing has been dedicated to the poet and her associates.
Anna Akhmatova Memorial Museum has separated to three main sections; the first is about the poet’s life and career, which praise her works during the Stalinist Great Purge and the Second World War; the second part has been dedicated to her son Lev Gumiliev, who was one of the controversial historians of Russia and his works; the third part is dedicated to Joseph Brodsky, who have believed to be the heir to Akhmatova’s work.
The museum features the original furniture of her house, photographs, sculptures, artwork, manuscripts and other things related to the poet. Since she was wildly known to depict the life of people under the siege of Leningrad and during the Stalinist Terror, her museum is considered to be emotionally moving by the visitors. Joseph Brodsky’s widow was also donated lots of stuff that belonged to her husband to the memorial museum, including postcards, library, artwork, and furniture from his house in Massachusetts. The Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum was operating as part of the Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum, but it became an individual museum after a while.
We at the Star Travel Company suggest our tourists who want to learn about Russian literature on their travel to Russia, write this museum name on their visit-list during their tour to Russia. We also recommend a visit to the Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum as well as the Alexander Pushkin Memorial Apartment, which all are located in St. Petersburg and can be visited on your tour to St. Petersburg.
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