The Memorial Pushkin Apartment Museum
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The Memorial Pushkin Apartment Museum is the last house of a famous Russian writer, Alexander Pushkin. It is one of the most popular museums of St. Petersburg situated in the centre of the city not far from the Winter Palace. The museum is housed in Alexander Pushkin's memorial apartment where he lived between 1836 and 1837. He died after being mortally wounded in a dramatic duel. On a wave of nationwide grief for the untimely death of this major Russian literary figure, Pushkin's apartment has been carefully preserved and remains a fine example of a nobleman's residence of the 1830s. The museum contains numerous literary and historical exhibitions, charting the life, work and times of Russia's greatest writer.
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