The L N Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow, Moskva River, Russia | Museum

The L N Tolstoy State Museum is one of the oldest literary Museums. It was set up by the Tolstoy Society, a public organization in Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia, in 1911. After the Great October So?ialist Revolution it became a state Museum (1920). By decree of the government The L N Tolstoy State Museum became the centre for the preservation of the writer's manuscripts, pictorial materials, mementos, books by Tolstoy and about Tolstoy. The literary display devoted to the writer's life and work takes up light halls in the Museum, which is housed in a mansion built in 1817-1822 by the architect A.G.Grigoryev. Displayed in the halls are the Museum's rich art and memorial collections.
Prechistenka Branch of The L N Tolstoy State Museum in Moscow, Central Federal District, is housed in the elaborate Krushchev Mansion, built by Afanasy Grigoriev, one of the most famous and most prolific architects of the Russian Empire Style. The Museum houses an enormous collection of original editions of Tosltoy's works and exhibits all manner of artifacts pertaining to his life.
The L N Tolstoy State Museum is housed in the building where Tolstoy and his family spent the winter months between 1882 and 1901. Situated in Ulitsa Lva Tolstovo, formerly Ulitsa Khamovnicheskaya, and just a short distance from the magnificent 5-domed Church of Nikolai in Khamovniki, the two-story house was purchased by the writer in 1882 to placate his wife, who was tired of provincial life and feared that their children's education was suffering. The house features numerous portraits of the family, including one of Tolstoy's lively and artistic daughter Tatyana by the famous Russian painter Ilya Repin, and one of the writer's wife Sofia Andreevna by the renowned artist Valentin Serov. Visitors can wander round the various bedrooms of the author's children, have a look at the servants quarters and browse round the upstairs family salon, where Tolstoy regularly entertained the composers Scriabin, Rakhmaninov and Rimsky-Korsakov and read his latest works to the writers Chekhov and Gorky. Tolstoy's study features a heavy desk and dark leather furniture, which seem appropriate to the author's gloomy literary output during the 1880s.