ALLILUYEV APARTMENT MUSEUM

A branch of the Smolny Museum
17 (Apt. 20) 10th Sovetskaya ulitsa 193114 St. Petersburg
Open: 10am - 6pm
Closed: Wednesdays and Sundays
Tel. 271-2579
Nearest metro station: Ploshchad Vosstaniya

The museum in the apartment of Sergei Alliluyev, an eminent figure in the Bolshevik Party and the father of Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva, was opened in 1938.

Here, on 7 July 1917, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party urged Lenin to leave Petrograd and go into hiding in the vicinity of the Razliv railway station. Before his departure for Razliv on 9 July, Lenin spent three days in Alliluyev's apartment.

The exhibits focus on the owners of the flat, touching on the life of an early 20th century member of the Petersburg proletariat, Lenin's stay in Petrograd in July 1917 and the people who visited the flat - Zinovyev, Stalin, Nogin, Stasova and others. Lenin's room and the dining-room have survived in their original form.