Pushkin’s apartment on the Arbat
Compare the size of the windows on the two floors and look for the museum plaque on No. 53.
Getting there
Bulat Okudzhava monument › Old Arbat › Denezhny Lane › No. 53 Arbat
Continue along Arbat towards the Garden Ring. Stop on the pedestrian street opposite the blue façade of No. 53. You can complete the quest from the street.
Beside the museum house there is a good view of the young couple’s monument across the street.
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History
This was a busy house in February 1831. On the eve of his wedding, Alexander Pushkin invited his friends here for a bachelor party. The wedding supper took place the following day. A few days later the newlyweds held their first ball as a married couple. Pushkin rented the apartment from the Khitrovo family. The rooms that commemorate him today are upstairs.
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