Alexander Pushkin House-Museum — Attraction in Rîșcani Sector

Closed for the Orthodox Christmas Public Holiday (but not indicated on their website). On my return I got to walk through Pushkin's Era viewing portraits, letters, stamps, medals, books, furniture, and various items of that time in a quaint museum. After that I was led to the very house that Pushkin lived in. The house was restored after WWII and the adjoining museum built in the same make as the Pushkin house. One needs a good knowledge of Russian to get the most of this exhibition. Entrance fee 10 MLei and another 10 MLei if you wish to take photos. For a personalized excursion with a guide, it would cost something more. Lovely experience. Lovely courtyard. Beautiful cats. And a Baba Yaga hut on...

I most definitely didn't get the helpful guides. The whole visit lasted a maximum of 15 minutes and that was because I was walking slowly. Not speaking either Russian or Romanian is a great impediment. I could have used translation software, but I couldn't be bothered. I saw nothing about Pushkin's works, which would have interested me. There were just a lot of pictures and some objects. I spent about 30 seconds in the house: the house had to be specially unlocked for me; the rooms were cordoned off and there was a slightly stern looking woman keeping watch over me and waiting for me to be finished. If you speak Romanian and or Russian, go. I was just too stupid to appreciate...

House-Museum of Alexandr Pushkin (Romanian: Casa-muzeu „Aleksandr Pușkin”) is a museum and architectural monument in Moldova of national value. It is included in the Register of monuments of history and culture of the municipality of Chișinău. House-Museum The building is where the Russian poet Alexandr Pushkin lived for three months after arriving in the capital of tsarist Bessarabia on September 21, 1820. The house, which at the time belonged to the merchant Naumov, was granted museum status on 10 February 1948. In total, Pushkin spent three years (1820–23) on the territory of the governorate, having previously been exiled here by the tsarist...