Description of the attraction
The building of the museum was built as a watchtower in the first half of the eighteenth century and served as a transit point for convicts on their way. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building housed the police department. Having increased the area of the house at the expense of an extension (from the north-east) and built on the third floor, the management was transferred in the 1880s.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the Sretensky men's primary school moved into the building, where since 1899. until 1901 studied literacy and the law of God K. A. Fedin. In the post-revolutionary period, the building was given to a kindergarten, where it existed comfortably until the 70s.
In 1981. the State Museum named after K. A. Fedin was opened in the building, the main exposition of which is "the history of literature of the twentieth century."
The museum building is one of the oldest buildings in the city, preserved to this day, and is an architectural monument.
The Fedin Museum often hosts poetry evenings, meetings with artists and writers, musicians and poets. Every year, on the "night of museums" (a tradition loved by the people of Saratov), the building opens its doors for everyone who wants to join literature and art, conducting free excursions every fifteen minutes.
The museum is located at the intersection of Chernyshevsky and Oktyabrskaya streets, on K. A. Fedin square, in a picturesque place. A panorama of the Volga opens from the square, in its very center there is a cascade fountain (a favorite place for children) and the square ends with a monument to Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin with flower beds with elegant flowers broken in a circle.
