Moscow museums · Literature
Literature · since 2005
The Gogol House
original name: Дом Н. В. Гоголя
The only memorial museum of Gogol in the world, in the authentic walls of his last four years. The value is topographic: the room, the fireplace and the staircase give what no edition can.
Minimum route
1 hour
Founded
2005
Ticket
from ₽150
Today
12:00–19:00
What to see
Six memorial rooms; the fireplace in which, on the night of 12 February 1852, Gogol burned the manuscript of the second volume of Dead Souls.
Minimum route — 1 hour for the essentials
Six rooms in a row, from the hall to the study. The point of the visit is the fireplace.
Reference
About the museum
The only memorial museum of Gogol in Russia. He moved here in 1848 at Count Tolstoy’s invitation, lived his last four years here and died on 21 February 1852.
The building
17th-century chambers, badly damaged in the fire of 1812; the façade has barely changed since the repair.
Good to know
A research library, reading room and music department work here. The last working day of the month is a cleaning day.
Getting in
How to get there
Metro Arbatskaya
Opening timeschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
closed for the day
| Mon | closed |
| Tue–Sun today | 12:00–19:00 |
last admission 30 min before closing
Box office until 18:30. Closed Mondays. The library attached to the museum stays open until 22:00, Tuesday to Saturday.
Ticketschecked on 15 August 2026, open sources
Adults 150 ₽; concessions 60 ₽.
from ₽150
tickets online
When to go
The museum is small: more than ten people in a room is already crowded. Come on a weekday after 15:00.
Contacts
Of interest to children
The memorial rooms need a reader of Dead Souls. No point before nine.
Access for visitors with limited mobility
The museum — no. A 17th-century house entered by steps, with no platform lift.
Getting there — partly. Arbatskaya has no lift. Moscow metro stations almost never have lifts to the platform, except on the Big Circle line and the MCC. A wheelchair user is better served by the surface buses, which are low-floor across the centre.
Getting there — partly. Arbatskaya has no lift. Moscow metro stations almost never have lifts to the platform, except on the Big Circle line and the MCC. A wheelchair user is better served by the surface buses, which are low-floor across the centre.
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