Museum-apartment of the actor’s family of M.V., A.A. Mironovs - A.S. Menaker

The house, where the museum-apartment is located, is a typical bricky tower in a quite arbat lane. Appearing here, you get in a special world where time stopped. Here you can feel the character and way of life of the owners of the house, their special energy, amazing atmosphere and coziness of the creative family. They rehearsed in the big room, celebrated New Year and Christmas noisily. Here is an old piano, which was played by Alexander Menaker, Andrei Mironov, Claudia Shulzhenko, Lydia Ruslanova, Jan Frenkel, Lyudmila Zykina and Nikita Bogoslovsky. There is an author's porcelain, a collection of cheese boards, an antique clock and a sideboard from the house of Maria Mironova’s parents in the same room. In the kitchen, lovingly furnished by the hostess in the Russian, made of bast style - a lot of handicrafts; The kerosene lamp is an excellent example of the “Russian modern” of the early twentieth century, rare items of Western European life of the nineteenth century - bouilotte and samovar. In the office of A. Menaker, which M. Mironova turned into a “museum for my boys”, collected portraits of family members of A. Menaker, numerous photographs of A. Mironov, his make-up table and personal belongings; ancient engravings with views of St. Petersburg, sculptural cartoons of Kukryniksov on the figures of Soviet art. In the bedroom of M. Mironova there are a lot of rare icons and objects of church life. In the corridor there are paintings of famous artists of the twentieth century, personal belongings and stage costumes by M. Mironova and A. Menaker; stage costumes by A. Mironov, including the Figaro costume, in which the artist last appeared on the stage.