Maxim Gorky House Museum
The location between New Arbat and Patriarch’s Ponds is full of luxurious artwork nouveau mansions, built for the wealthy service provider magnificence in the years before the Russian revolution. Many are now embassies, but one you may get inside to gawp at (free of charge) is the amazing Gorky residence Museum. The residence’s proprietors fled in 1917, and the mansion turned into passed over to the author to live out his final years after he again from exile. Marvel at the outstanding swirling shapes inside the doorways, home windows and railings, and the overwrought Gaudi-esque staircase internal.
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