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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-253Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi literaturno-memorial'nyi muzei Anny Akhmatovoi v Fontannom DomeHistory The museum was founded in 1989, in the garden wing of the Sheremetev Palace—also known as the Fontanka (Fountain) House (Fontannyi Dom). The house itself was built in 1750–1755, and the garden wing was erected in the 1840s. There, in a flat on the third floor, the beloved Silver Age poet, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (pseud. of Gorenko) (1889–1966), lived from 1924–1941 and 1944–1952 with her second husband, Nikolai Nikolaevich Punin (1888–1953). Punin, one of the best-known Russian art critics and director of the Hermitage, was arrested in 1936, and again in 1949, after which he died in a prison camp. In addition to exhibits honoring Akhmatova, the museum also features an exhibit honoring N.N. Punin, preserving his working study. Initially a branch of the Dostoevskii Museum (H–252), the museum came under independent administration in 1990. During 1997 there was a temporary exhibition honoring the memory of the Nobel prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky (Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodskii, 1940–1996), whom Akmatova greatly admired, and who died in exile in New York City. The Museum has a branch—L.N. Gumilev Memorial Museum-Apartment (see below). |
