Museum at Bolshaya Pirogovskaya
Moscow, Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, 35A, 1st floor
Now on this venue
Museum founded
On March 26, 2007, the Government of Moscow established the first state museum of Mikhail Bulgakov in Russia in house No. 10 on Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, in apartment 50.
Museum today
The museum includes three spaces: the memorial museum at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street (the Bad Apartment), the memorial museum at 35A Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, and the Research and Education Centre at 35-37 Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane.
Museum on Bolshaya Sadovaya (the Bad Apartment)
The Bulgakov Museum on Bolshaya Sadovaya is both the memorial flat where the writer lived from 1921 to 1924 and the prototype of the Bad Apartment in The Master and Margarita. Visitors see the communal life of the early 1920s, learn the history of the legendary house and its residents, and encounter objects connected with the making of the novel.
Museum on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya
Mikhail Bulgakov moved into 35A Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street in 1927 and lived there until 1934. It is one of the writer's most important Moscow addresses. Here he began work on The Master and Margarita, burned draft pages of the novel, and hosted Anna Akhmatova, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, and many others.
Bulgakov Centre on Arbat
The research and education centre hosts lectures, workshops, presentations, film screenings, conferences, concerts, and other public programmes. It also houses two permanent displays, the Marietta Chudakova Memorial Study and Bulgakov's Arbat, along with the music salon, the manuscript archive, and the rare books collection.
