🖼 Fountain House — Akhmatova Museum

наб. Фонтанки, 34 (вход с Литейного, 53)

The Sheremetevs' Baroque palace on the Fontanka; in the wing is a museum with the poet's rooms and literary exhibitions.

The museum opened on 24 June 1989, for Akhmatova's centenary.
Akhmatova lived in the south wing from 1924 to 1952, in Nikolay Punin's flat.
She first moved into the Fountain House in 1918, to the north wing, to live with her second husband Vladimir Shileyko.
The arch at the entrance from Liteyny is covered with poem-graffiti; when there are too many inscriptions, museum staff photograph and paint over them.
The collection has over 51,000 items, including a Modigliani drawing from 1911.
In 2005 Joseph Brodsky's “American Study” opened on the ground floor.

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