Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum

Fountain House

The Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum is a literary museum in St Petersburg, Russia,^[1][2] dedicated to the poet Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966).

The museum is located in Fountain House at 34 Fontanka River Embankment. Fountain House was built in the 18th century as a palace for the Sheremetev family. From 1935 to 1941 it housed the Museum of Popular Science, which closed immediately upon the German invasion. Anna Akhmatova lived in the northern garden wing of the Fountain House in 1918–1920, and lived in the southern wing from the mid 1920s until February 1952.

The Akhmatova Museum was was opened in 1989 as a branch of the Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum.^[3] Later it was separated out as an independent museum. The museum's collection consisted in 2009 of about 50,000 items. This includes, among other things, autographed editions of Akhmatova's works, photographs, and manuscripts by Akhmatova and her contemporaries.

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• Anna Akhmatova Museum website (Russian)
• The Anna Akhmatova Museum at The Fountain House (English)

Coordinates: 59°56′20″N 30°18′58″E / 59.939°N 30.316°E / 59.939; 30.316

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