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The Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum is a literary museum in
St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
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, dedicated to the poet
Anna Akhmatova Anna Andreyevna Gorenko rus, А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко, p=ˈanːə ɐnˈdrʲe(j)ɪvnə ɡɐˈrʲɛnkə, a=Anna Andreyevna Gorenko.ru.oga, links=yes; uk, А́нна Андрі́ївна Горе́нко, Ánna Andríyivn ...
(1889–1966). It opened in 1989 on the centennial of Akhmatova's birth.


The palace

The museum is located in the South wing (No. 53) of Fountain House at
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River Embankment. The Fountain House was built in the 18th century as a palace for the noble
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family, while the South wing in the garden was added in 1845, designed by Ieronim Corsini. From 1935 to 1941, it housed the Museum of Popular Science, which closed immediately upon the
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. Anna Akhmatova lived in the northern garden wing of the Fountain House in 1918–1920 with her second husband Vladimir Shileyko, and later in the southern wing with
Nikolay Punin Nikolay Nikolayevich Punin (russian: link=no, Никола́й Никола́евич Пу́нин; – August 21, 1953) was a Russian art scholar and writer. He edited several magazines, such as ''Izobrazitelnoye Iskusstvo'' among others, and w ...
(from the mid-1920s until February 1952). Then the building as a whole was given over to semi-classified Arctic and Antarctic Exploration Research Institute, and only in the latter part of the twentieth century, after relocation of the institute within the city to a specially designed facility, it became possible to start turning the palace into a museum or museums. Now the main building is occupied by Saint Petersburg Museum of Music (one of the largest branches o
St.Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
, and the wing is dedicated to the museum of the poet.


Museum

The Akhmatova Museum was opened in 1989 as a branch of the
Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...
. In 2003 the exposition was separated into memorial (with restored apartment of Akhmatova and Punin) and literary parts. As of 2009, the museum's collection held about 50,000 items, including autographed editions of Akhmatova's works, photographs, and manuscripts by Akhmatova and her contemporaries.


American Office of Joseph Brodsky

The museum incorporates an exposition "Американский Кабинет Иосифа Бродского". It is based on things which Maria Sozzani, the widow of
Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...
, gifted to the museum: furniture, library, postcard collection, etc., from Brodsky's last house in South Hadley, Massachusetts.


Other museums of Akhmatova

In Saint Petersburg, there is museum dedicated to the poet, her circle and her times. It is called " Anna Akhmatova. The Silver Age" and is located on the ground floor of an ordinary apartment building in the vicinity of
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. In little village in
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,
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References


External links


Anna Akhmatova Museum website

The Anna Akhmatova Museum at The Fountain House
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