The Mikhail Lermontov Museum in Moscow is located in a wooden two-story building near Novy Arbat. The young poet in 1829, at the age of 16, left the Tarkhany Estate for the first time and came to Moscow with his grandmother Elizaveta Arsenyeva. He entered the boarding school of Moscow University, as home schooling was not enough to get a higher education.
Mikhail Lermontov and his grandmother lived in a house with a mezzanine on Malaya Molchanovka Street. They lived in this house until 1832. Lermontov did not like studying at the university, at the same time, his talent as a poet was already obvious. Two years after entering Moscow University, Lermontov decided to interrupt his studies and went to the University of St. Petersburg, however, he was also unable to start studying there. The rector refused to credit two years of study at Moscow University, and offered to enroll in the first year.
In the period from 1829 to 1832, Lermontov was staying on vacation every summer at the Serednikovo Estate in the Moscow region with his Stolypin relatives. Here he became friends with Alexey Stolypin, whom he nicknamed "Mongo". This friendship lasted a lifetime. But the main event of those years was the acquaintance with Ekaterina Sushkova.
In the neighboring estate lived the Vereshchagins, close friends of the Stolypins. Ekaterina Sushkova was a friend of Alexandra Vereshchagina. Mikhail Lermontov was then 16 years old, and Sushkova was 18 years old. The young poet fell in love with her, so all the years he spent in Moscow were called the "Sushkovsky period" of Lermontov`s work. During this period he wrote 17 novels, 4 dramas and more than 250 poems.
The Lermontov Museum in Moscow, in the house on Malaya Molchanovka, was created in 1981 on the initiative of the writer Irakli Andronikov. In Soviet times, communal apartments were located in the house, but after the creation of the museum, the layout and interiors of the 19th century were recreated there. In the rooms you can see interesting expositions related to the life and work of the great Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov.
