YELIZAROV APARTMENT MUSEUM

A branch of the Smolny Museum

52/9 (Apt. 24) ulitsa Lenina 197101 St. Petersburg
Open: 10am - 6pm
Closed: Wednesdays and Sundays
Tel. 235-3778
Nearest metro stations: Chkalovskaya and Petrogradskaya

The apartment of Lenin's elder sister, Anna Il'inichna Yelizarova, and her husband, Mark Timofeyevich Yelizarov, was converted into a museum in 1927. The house in which it is located was built in 1912-13 by the architect Alexander Erlich.
Lenin's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, lived in this apartment together with Anna and Mark Yelizarov, until her death in 1906. Lenin and his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, took up residence there in April 1917 and stayed for three months. During this time Lenin wrote about 150 works. The flat was also used for meetings of the Central Committee of the RSDLP and editorial work on the paper Pravda. It was visited by prominent Bolsheviks, including Yakov Sverdlov, Nikolai Podvoisky and Joseph Stalin.
The interiors and furnishings of the living quarters have been restored to their original form. The exhibition gives a detailed account of the Ulyanov-Yelizarov family and of Lenin's activities in Petrograd in April-July 1917.