The museum of outstanding writer Mikhail Bulgakov is situated in one of the most beautiful streets of Kiev, Andreyevsky Spusk, which was mainly built up at the end of the 19th century. The street is also famous for some older constructions that are considered to be of great historical value. For example, the famous Andreevskaya Church, dating back to the 18th century, is located here as well.
The building number 13 was designed by architect I. I. Gordenin over the century ago. Bulgakov and his parents moved to this house in 1906 and lived there until 1919, when they were forced to leave the city, due to the “time of troubles”. Later in this very house the writer settled the main characters of his famous book “Belaya Gvardia”, or “White Guard”. Several decades later Victor Nekrasov, a well-known literary critic and a writer, published an essay called “At Turbins”, devoted to the life and creativity of Mikhail Bulgakov. The name of the essay turned out to be so becoming that the building at 13 Andreyevsky Spusk got the new name and under this name went down in the city folklore.
Nowadays the legendary house is one of the most famous landmarks of Andreyevsky Spusk.The Memorial Museum was founded in 1989 as a branch of the State Museum of Kiev’s History. On May 15, 1991, the centenary since the writer’s birth, the museum was open to the public. The solemn ceremony of the museum opening was started with the memorial service in Podol Krestovozdvizhenskaya Church, where little Mikhail, who was to become the pride of Russian literature, was christened.