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      If it rains: Soviet life, Gorky and Chaliapin

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 2.5 km🍽 1📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Museums in old houses between Bauman Street and Lyadskoy Garden: Soviet daily life with arcade machines, Gorky's bakery, the Chaliapin collection, the Boratynsky estate and the Ulyanovs' house.

      🏛 History and architecture☔️ If it rains
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        🖼 Museum of Socialist Everyday Life
        Университетская ул., 6/39
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        A private museum of Soviet life in a mid-19th-century house: toys, jeans, rock musicians' guitars and arcade machines.
        Arcade machines and clothes you can try on
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        • The museum was opened in 2011 by the Kazan photographer Rustem Valiakhmetov, who had been collecting the items since 1991.
        • The exhibition is divided into blocks: "Toy: Made in the USSR", "Jeans as a Cult" and "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame".
        • The museum's pride is the guitars of Soviet rock musicians.
        • You can play Soviet arcade machines here and try on clothes.
        • The museum has a branch at Universitetskaya 9, the "Museum of Happy Childhood" with toys and school desks.
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        ☕️ Urman café on Nekrasova
        ул. Некрасова, 9
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        Lunch: pasta or pizza, and a Napoleon cake for dessert
        🍴 A bright café for breakfast, lunch and dinner. What to order: breakfast, pasta or pizza, and for dessert a Napoleon cake or blackcurrant mochi.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Gorky and Chaliapin Museum
        ул. Горького, 10
        🎟 ticket
        Two museums in one house: the basement bakery where the young Gorky worked, and a Chaliapin collection with a gramophone.
        Go down to the bakery where Gorky worked
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        Gorky and Chaliapin Museum
        © Marat Kamalevsky · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The young Gorky worked as a baker's assistant in this house's basement bakery in 1886–1887.
        • Gorky called his Kazan years, 1884–1888, his "spiritual birth".
        • The second floor holds the Chaliapin collection of about 4,000 items.
        • Early-20th-century records of Chaliapin's voice can be heard on an old gramophone.
        • The singer's personal belongings include the costume of Khan Konchak from Prince Igor.
        • Until 2018 the museum was called the A. M. Gorky Literary Memorial Museum.
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        🖼 Boratynsky Museum
        ул. Горького, 25
        🎟 ticket
        The Boratynsky family's town estate: a museum of a poet of Pushkin's era, with a White Hall and a family archive.
        The White Hall and the poet's family archive
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        Boratynsky Museum
        © Bogdanov-62 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened on 21 March 1977 as a school museum at Kazan School No. 34; it became a state museum in 1981.
        • Since 1991 the museum has been in the Boratynsky family's town estate.
        • From 1932 the estate housed a music school for a long time, where Sofia Gubaidulina studied.
        • During the war a bomb fell on the estate and destroyed a wall of the house.
        • The main house was restored in 2012–2015, and in 2026 the outbuilding reopened after restoration.
        • The collection includes the poet's lifetime editions and personal belongings, works by Fechin and a portrait of Leo Tolstoy made in his lifetime.
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        🖼 Lenin House Museum
        ул. Ульянова-Ленина, 58
        🎟 ticket
        A wooden outbuilding where the Ulyanov family lived in 1888–1889: furnished rooms and documents of the Kazan student Lenin.
        The outbuilding where the Ulyanovs lived; closed on Mondays
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        Lenin House Museum
        © Moneycantbuy · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum opened on 7 November 1937, for the 20th anniversary of the revolution.
        • The Ulyanov family rented an apartment in the outbuilding from September 1888 to May 1889.
        • In August 1887 Vladimir Ulyanov entered Kazan University, and in December he was expelled and exiled to Kokushkino.
        • The estate belonged to the city council official Timofei Orlov; the wooden outbuilding was built in 1872.

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