Moscow is our native and we admit it is the most loved city. We have studied all the streets for a long time and know exactly where it is best to walk. But we especially love the places that the classics describe in their works. So if you are tired of walking in Gorky Park and Red Square, this choice is for you. He compiled a guide to literary places in Moscow.
Michael Bulgakov. “Dog’s Heart”
Do you remember the house where Professor Preobrazhensky lived? Therefore, the Kalabukhovsky House located on Prechistenka is considered its prototype.
Address: Prechistenka street, 24/1
Ivan Turgenev. “Mu Mu”
“The old woman with whom he lived as a janitor followed old customs in everything and kept a large number of servants.” The prototype of the lady’s house was the mansion in Ostozhenka, where the writer’s mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva-Lutovina, lived.
Address: Ostozhenka street, 37
Alexander Pushkin. “Eugene Onegin”
“In this boring walk
An hour or two passes and then
in a side street in Kharitonia
car at the door in front of the house
Stoped…”
On the Kharitonievsky lane was the palace of the Yusupov princes. Tatyana Larina came to the bride in the seventh part of the work. True, he has not survived to this day.
Address: Bolshoi Kharitonievsky lane, 13
Michael Bulgakov. “The Master and Margarita”
Patriarch Pools
The action of the novel begins with the Patriarch’s Ponds, where the poet meets Bezdomny and Woland, head of MASSOLIT Berlioz. There, Berlioz slips in oil and is hit by a tram. By the way, in 2012 a sign was placed on the Patriarchs: “It is forbidden to talk to foreigners.”
bad circle
In the novel, the flat in which Woland lived with his entourage was located at: Sadovaya, 302-Bis, flat No. 50. In reality, there was no such address, and the real apartment where Bulgakov lived is four years after his first wife.
Address: st. Bolshaya Sadovaya, 10, 6th entrance, 4th floor, apartment. 50
Leo Tolstoy. “Anna Karenina”
At the end of the story, Anna Karenina (spoiler) throws herself under a train and dies. The station described in the book actually existed. We are talking about the Nizhny Novgorod railway station, located behind Pokrovskaya Zastava, at the intersection of Nizhegorodskaya Street and Rogozhsky Val. It has not survived to this day, it was demolished in the 1950s.
Leo Tolstoy. “War and peace”
“The Rostovs had Natalya’s birthday girls – a mother and a little daughter. In the morning, the trains left and departed without stopping, and the great, well-known Countess Rostova on Povarskaya in Moscow brought congratulations to her home. The prototype of the house in which the Rostovs lived is considered a mansion on Povarskaya Street. Since the house belonged to the husband of the eldest daughter of the writer, Tolstoy himself often visited.
Address: Povarskaya street, 53
Source: People Talk
