Beneath The Roof Of Fountain House

Anna Akhmatova Museum at The Fountain House situated in the center of St. Petersburg, in the Southern Wing of the Sheremetevsky Palace, an architectural masterpiece of Russian Baroque. The museum had been opened by the 100th anniversary of Akhmatova's birth in 1989 and was the first one dedicated to those representatives of Akhmatova's generation who tried to save their world and personality under the conditions of the totalitarian state. New exposition solution (2003) divide the space of the museum into two parts: memorial which restores the atmosphere of 1920s-1940s in the Punins' and Akhmatova's apartment and historical and literary part submitted to another logic – "sub specie aeternitis" ("from the standpoint of the eternity"), or "I remember that time…" (Akhmatova)
ISBN: 5-00-006939-0