🖼 Andrei Bely Memorial Apartment

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The apartment where the Symbolist poet spent his childhood and youth, a branch of the Pushkin Museum in the building next to the Pushkin apartment.

Boris Bugaev, the future Andrei Bely, was born here in 1880 and lived in the apartment until 1906.
His father Nikolai Bugaev was dean of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow University.
From the early 1900s the circle of the "Argonauts" met here; visitors included Balmont, Bryusov, Voloshin and Borisov-Musatov.
On the drawing-room balcony Bely wrote the "Second (Dramatic) Symphony", which brought him fame.
The museum was founded in 1993 and officially opened in September 2000; its collection has more than 4,000 memorial items.
The holdings include the autograph of a poem by Mandelstam written on the day of Bely's funeral.

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