🖼 Stationmaster's House Museum

Гатчинский р-н, д. Выра, Большой пр., 32А

Russia's first museum of a literary character — Samson Vyrin from Pushkin's tale — in a post station building on the old Belarusian highway.

The museum opened on 15 October 1972 with 72 exhibits; now it has more than 4,000.
Pushkin stopped at the Vyra post station at least 13 times.
According to one version, Samson Vyrin's surname comes from the name of the village of Vyra.
The station was the third from Petersburg on the Dinaburg road — today's Kiev Highway.
Besides the stationmaster's house, a stable, a shed, a fire watchtower, a well, a saddlery and a smithy have been restored here.
The voices in the exhibition's sound-and-light show were recorded by actors of the Theatre on Liteyny.

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