Route: Lenin Library (metro station) → Museum-Apartment of A. I. Ulyanova-Elizarova
A walk from the Lenin Library metro station to the country's main library and its surroundings
Stories along the route
Библиотека имени Ленина (станция метро) · 0.0 km
You are standing above one of the most ingenious stations of the Moscow metro, which doesn't even look like a station until you go down.
Музей-квартира А. И. Ульяновой-Елизаровой · 0.4 km
Before you stands a house that holds the memory of a woman whose life remained in the shadow of her great brother. Here, within these walls, lived Anna Ilyinichna Ulyanova-Elizarova — the elder sister of Vladimir Lenin.
Российская государственная библиотека · 0.8 km
Before you stands not just a library — it's an entire city of books, where the memory of a nation is kept. You are standing by a building that bore Lenin's name from 1924 to 1992, and it was under that very name that mil…
Памятник Достоевскому (Москва, РГБ) · 1.0 km
Before you stands not just a bronze man, but an entire universe frozen in metal. This monument to Fyodor Dostoevsky appeared here in 1997, when Moscow was celebrating two anniversaries at once: the 175th anniversary of t…