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Within the Old district of Derbent, not far from the Naryn-Kala Fortress, there is a house-museum of writer, publicist and ethnographer Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev-Marlinsky. The writer lived in this house during his exile from 1830 to 1834.
The museum was opened in 1988. The exhibition is dedicated to the creative activity of A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky. The interior of the house has been preserved, a few of his personal belongings are presented.
You can walk around the museum both independently and with excursion service. The visit will be useful if the writer's work is interesting or there is nothing else to watch, otherwise we will not include it in the top ten mandatory places.
Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev, also known under the pseudonym Marlinsky (October 23, 1797, St. Petersburg — June 7, 1837, Fort of the Holy Spirit, now Adler neighborhood Sochi) is a Russian Byronic writer, critic, publicist of the Romantic era and Decembrist, who came from the Bestuzhev family.
He entered the literary field in 1819 with poems and short stories published in The Son of the Fatherland and The Competitor of Enlightenment, and in 1820 he was elected a member of the St. Petersburg Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. In 1821, his "Trip to Revel" was published in a separate book, and in 1823-1825, together with K. F. Ryleev, he published the almanac "Polar Star".
This almanac — a very remarkable literary phenomenon in its time — was met with general sympathy; around the young, talented and beloved editors, almost all the leading representatives of our literature of that time joined, including Pushkin, who from Odessa and then from his Pskov village maintained a lively correspondence with Bestuzhev on literary issues and sent him his poems. In The Polar Star, Bestuzhev acted not only as a novelist (Neuhausen Castle, A Novel in Seven Letters, The Revel Tournament, The Traitor), but also as a literary critic: his reviews of old and modern fine literature and journalism attracted general attention and caused lively controversy.
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🌐 Website: https://derbentmuseum.ru/
🕐 Working hours
Daily from 09:00 to 18:00, seven days a week.
💵 Entrance fee / ticket price
Adults – 150 rubles, children from 7 to 16 years – 100 rubles, children under 7 years – free of charge, excursions from 150 rubles / person. The Pushkin card is valid. For children under the age of 18 – free admission on the first and last Sunday of the month, for students – the first Thursday of the month. For all categories, free admission is on May 18 (International Museum Day), June 1 (International Children's Day), September 15 (Day of Unity of the Peoples of Dagestan).
🚶 How to get there
The museum is located in the old town of Derbent at 7 Magal Street, 147 block, 23 (Bestuzhev-Marlinsky House Museum on the map). A taxi ride from other parts of the city here will cost from 100 rubles, Yandex.Money and Uber work. On city minibuses #11 and No.6 you can get to the stops "Orta-kapy" or "Kyrkhlar-kapy" for 27 rubles, and then five minutes on foot. Read more about transport in Derbent and how tourists can travel here.
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