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	Pushkin Museum (Пушкинa музей) Pushkinskaya 13 (Пушкинская 13) Price: 9 Hr for tourists (3 Hr for Ukrainians) Telephone: 221081 Hours: 10 am to 6 pm (Closed Wednesday) Webpage: Pushkin Museum Translator / Guide Availabe?: 42 Hr for Russian speaking guide, 54 Hr for French speaking guide, No English guide Photos: Ask at counter, "Usually no photographs allowed"

Architecture / History:

Pushkin lived here for a year while in Russian exile. (Refer to Pushkin's Bust for more on Pushkin)

The museum was built in 1821 by an unknown architect.

"What lends it particular charm is the original combination of horizontal and vertical components. The facade is divided into three vertical parts, with the two side ones protruding. All three have a common horizontal relief in the form of a cornice over the second story and a bar, which completes the third story built later on. The second story windows are also topped by elegant cornices." ^[1]

In 1999, for the 200th anniversary of the Pushkin's birth, the city erected a monument of the poet in tuxedo, top hat and cane, in front of the museum. This monument instantly became one of the favorite photo sites for visitors to Odessa.

Walkthrough

The guides in this museum are quite uptight and may snipe at a visitor for being too loud.

Next to Pushkin's writing room, on the right side wall is a pencil drawing of E.K. Vorontsova 1792-1880, which is an intimate picture of Pushkin. Many original manuscripts from Pushkin's writings, often with doodling of women in the margins and many crossed out and changed words. A visitor gets a great idea of how Pushkin wrote.

On the left side of the reading room is a copy of a page from Pushkin's book "Eugene Onegin", which Pushkin wrote two chapters of while in Odessa.

In the right wing, in the last room, on the top shelf of the cupboard is a fabulous picture of the mayor's office as it appeared on the 10th of April 1889. There are also several other old picture of Odessa.

In the left wing, the first picture on the left of Pushkin's bust is a photo of Sergy Lvovich, Pushkin's father (1800), and a picture of Pushkin's mother, Nedejda ("hope" in Russian) Osipovna (1810).

The third picture from Pushkin's Bust, is Pushkin's uncle, Vasily Lvovich.

Above Pushkin's uncle is a picture of Pushkin in his youth.
The beautiful watercolor, fifth picture from Pushkin's Bust, is Natalya Nikolaevna, Pushkin's wife.
On the opposite wall, next to the curtains, is a picture of Pushkin's great uncle, Ivan Abramovich Gannibal.
The second picture on the opposite wall is Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Pushkin's great grandfather.
In the corner is a picture of the woman in black is Natalya Nikolaevna Lanckaya, Pushkin's wife in mourning after Pushkin's death. She remarried after his death, so her last name has changed (1842).

From the wall are pictures of Pushkin's children:

• Masha
• Alexander
• Natasha
• Gregory

Pushkin had eight children, four which died.

In the corner, a gold bordered round picture shows Pushkin .
Pushkin's sister, Olga Serebna Pavlishcheva is next to Pushkin's picture.

The picture with a green border and redish brown wood, is Leb, Pushkin's brother.

In the next room are colorful pictures done by children of Pushkin and his life.

Return to Museums.

See also

• Pushkin's bust for history of Pushkin in Odessa.

Notes

1. ^ From Odessa a guide, Ruduga Publishers, 1984