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edgorme · Just Starting Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 3

Is the Alliluyeva apartment where Lenin and Stalin stayed just before the 1917 revolution still standing? If so, are people living in it? Can you tour it?

Also, when I was there a few years ago, I did a tour of Kirov's home, which was quite interesting. Is this museum still open? Is there a web site for this place?

Thank you.

Andrey Vereshchagin · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

Alliluevs' apartment is a museum - with some remnants of the bygone epoch in its exhibition and preserved living style of 1900s.
Kirov's apartment is still a museum also - with an exhibition devoted to resistance of children in 1930ies("Thank you for our happy childhood")
There is a page devoted to Kirov's museum at http://www.spbmuseum.ru/kirov/ - - all in Russian

edgorme · Just Starting Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 3

What is the street address of the Alliluyeva museum in St. Petersburg? Is it near the Peter and Paul Fortress or on the other side of the river near the Winter Palace?

Also, is there a web site for it? I'm annoyed that I missed it while I was there a few years ago. Perhaps I can go there via photographs!

Thanks for the link to the Kirov museum.

Andrey Vereshchagin · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject:

Allilyev's apartment is located in #17, 10th Sovietskaya st, apt 20. I have not found any site - just refernces in Russian among museum listings, no pictures.

edgorme · Just Starting Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 3

Thank you! That apartment appears to be between the Taurida Palace and the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, near the intersection of 10th Sovetskaya and Mitninskya ulitsa.

I found my brochure from the Kirov. It is at 26/28 Kamennoostrovsky prospect, just north of the Peter & Paul fortress.

Thanks for the info.