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Vasily Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Pelageya Vasilyevna Ketcher House (Vasily Pushkin Museum) is a wooden mansion built in 1819 in the classicism style on the initiative of Pelageya Ketcher, the wife of the owner of the surgical instruments factory Christopher Ketcher. The building was intended for private rental and from 1824 to 1830 it was rented by Vasily Pushkin, the uncle of the poet Alexander Pushkin. In 1988, the Moscow government issued a decree on the establishment of a branch of the Alexander Pushkin State Museum dedicated to the life of Vasily Pushkin in the house. The museum was opened to the public after a lengthy restoration in 2013. In the middle of the XVIII century, the plot belonged to the daughter of Major General Alexei Sukhotin Elena. At her time, a stone manor was erected, data about which practically has not been preserved. Subsequently, the house was acquired by captain of the first rank Pyotr Khomutov, he owned the plot until the fire of 1812. During the withdrawal of the French troops from Moscow, all the buildings on the territory burned down. Later, the land was acquired by Pelageya Ketcher, the wife of the owner of the surgical instruments factory, Christopher Ketcher, and the mother of translator Nikolai Ketcher. On her initiative, on the basis of the stone foundation preserved after the fire, a one-story wooden mansion in the classicism style was built, intended for rental.