M. A. Bulgakov Museum

The Museum of M. A. Bulkagov - the first and only state memorial museum of Bulgakov in Russia, established in 2007 in the space of the legendary apartment number 50 Bulgakov. Currently, the M.A. Bulgakov Museum actively expands the field of cultural activities, opens exhibitions and holds events both in the museum itself and in external platforms. The purpose of the Museum is a comprehensive story about Bulgakov art, Bulgakov Moscow, the culture of the Bulgakov era. Since 2014, the museum has launched and develops the following projects: "House on Bolshaya Sadovaya" For more than a century of history, workers of the Dukat tobacco factory and artists, Social Revolutionaries and hereditary nobles, doctors and printers of the neighboring printing house, NKVD employees and hippies lived in house № 10. At the beginning of the XX century it was a profitable home for wealthy tenants. In the 1920s it was the house-commune. After the war it was the usual Moscow court surrounded by crowded communal. One of the first Russian squats in the 1980s, an emergency ruin of the 90s, in the beginning of the XXI century - fragments of history among office meters. The artist Vasily Surikov spent the last years of his life here. The patron Nikolai Ryabushinsky was shot and survived here. Fanny Kaplan stopped in this house before the Lenin'a assassination. Bohemian evening parties were held by artist George Yakulov, at one of which Sergei Yesenin met Isadora Duncan. Mikhail Bulgakov wrote «the White Guard» in this house, and the artist Peter Konchalovsky created almost all of his works. The house on Bolshaya Sadovaya is various and endless without Bulgakov’s fifth dimension. The task to find everyone who lived and was here is impossible. The Museum of M. A. Bulgakov is just an intermediary between them and those who came here for the first time. The site, created under the project (dom10.bulgakovmuseum.ru), contains a lot of archival documents and old photos, video interviews and memories of the residents of the house. We continue to look for family memories, testimonies and documents related to the history of the house and its surroundings. The project of the M.A. Bulgakov Museum “House on Bolshaya Sadovaya” is the winner of the competition of museum projects organized by the Moscow Department of Culture in 2014. "Mikhail Bulkagov's Moscow" Mikhail Bulgakov is one of the most "Moscow" writers of the XX century. His books are filled with the names of familiar streets and lanes, signs of Moscow places, and Moscow, in turn, - Bulgakov stories. The most famous Bulgakov places (the Patriarch's and the house on Bolshaya Sadovaya) have long become centers of cultural pilgrimage. But in Moscow there are more than 150 addresses connected with the life and work of the writer. Houses and streets, where Bulgakov lived or often visited, often turn out to be the same streets and houses where the characters of his books live and act. Mikhail Bulgakov's Moscow is the first research and educational multimedia project in Russia, dedicated to this topic. We sought not only to create a popular, convenient and interesting product on the topic, but to do it with a systematic and scientifically based approach to the material. The project includes a printed map-guide, a free BULGAKOVMAP navigation mobile application for iOs and Android, and a site about Bulgakov's Moscow. Concerts at the Patriarch's Ponds The Patriarch's Ponds are the most famous place of Bulgakov Moscow. It was here that the Bulgakov legend was born and there is always a bit of that very hot May evening here. In the summer of 2014, the Museum of M. A. Bulgakov organized concerts of classical music at the Patriarch Ponds. The works of Wagner, Gounod, Chopin, Shubret, Liszt, and Rachmaninov sounded from the “lake scene” built in the very center of the Patriarch's pond on the water.