Pushkin Museum

Kyiv Museum OS Pushkin was opened to visitors in May 1999, on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great poet. But the history of the museum began much earlier - in 1987, when the famous Kyiv collector, bibliophile and bibliographer Yakov Isaakovych Berdychivsky handed over his famous "Pushkiniana" as a gift to the city. The main condition and wish of the collector was the creation of a museum. Enthusiasm E.I. Berdychivsky was supported and the museum was founded in the same year. For several years, the museum was a department of the National Museum of Arts named after Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko (formerly the Kyiv Museum of Western and Oriental Arts). The museum received a permanent residence at 9 Kudryavska Street twelve years later, in 1999. It is interesting that the great Russian poet never stayed in this museum building, but in 1895-1903, before moving to the famous "House of Turbines" on St. Andrew's Descent, Mikhail Bulgakov's family lived here.