Mikhail Bulgakov Literary Memorial Museum?Why this museumThe house described in The White Guard, and a device invented here: the Bulgakovs’ real things stand among white replicas, so the real is separated from the invented physically. The device is museologically unique and worth the trip on its own.
Literature · с 1989 года
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10+With childrenThe Turbin house is for those who have read The White Guard.wheelchairStep-free accessThe museum — no. An old house on a slope with steps at the door.
Getting there — not checked. The Kyiv metro is barely adapted for wheelchairs. We have not checked access during martial law.1 hour
The only Bulgakov museum in Kyiv, opened in 1989 in the house where the writer lived in 1906–1919 and which appears in The White Guard as the Turbins’ house. Founded by Anatoly Konchakovsky.
The building. An apartment house of 1888 on Andriyivskyy Descent.
Good to know. Tours in Russian, Ukrainian, English, French and German; book ahead.
What to see
A memorial flat arranged by the artist Alexander Novikov: the Bulgakovs’ real things stand among white “Turbin” objects, so that fact and fiction are told apart by colour.
Minimum route — 1 hour на самое важное
The memorial flat, where the real things are shown among the white “Turbin” objects.
