John Keats, English romantic poet of the nineteenth century, looks suddenly for London – white two-story mansion, pretty and elegant. Looks so festive, it's hard to believe – here the young poet realized that dying of tuberculosis, from here he went to warm Italy, where he died five months later. But here he fell in love with a neighbor girl Fanny Brawne and wrote many of his most famous poems – maybe that's why the place leaves a bright impression.

In fact, the house never belonged to Keats. Part of a double building, called "Wentworth place", was owned by a friend of the poet Charles brown, who invited John to himself. Keats never had a home, wife, children – he died twenty-five years, having only one thing: to write poems that made him great. Almost all of them were created in this small house (the part where brown lived and Keats, was little) since December 1818 to September 1820.

The famous "Ode to a Nightingale" Keats, according to the memoirs of brown, wrote one morning, sitting in the garden under the plum tree. The poem is permeated with feeling close to death: "You'll sing, but I under the sod/ Heed won't be anything" (translated by Eugene Witkowski). Keats studied medicine, and was buried the mother and brother died of tuberculosis, and by symptoms knew what a painful death awaits him. And so it happened – but in Rome.

Much later, in 1838, "Wentworth place" was rebuilt by the new owner. Of the original furniture is almost nothing left. Now the house has been restored and is still recognizable (for this purpose, we analyzed the traces of paint on the walls and scraps of Wallpaper). Bedroom Keats with a four-poster bed, a living room, where the poet lay, already being seriously ill, and was looking at life behind the French window. Special showcase dedicated to Fanny Brawne – there are engagement ring, given to her by Keats in a sign of engagement (Fanny wore it without removing the whole life), some personal items, a handwritten copy of a poem dedicated to her "Bright star". Exhibits include letters of Keats, a medallion with a lock of hair of the poet and his death mask.

John Keats in Russia practically do not know, but for every Englishman he as a native. So for many of them, the visit to the house of the pilgrimage. In the beautiful garden, restored in the style of the Regency, people arrange picnics. Lovers under a plum tree reading "Ode to a Nightingale". Plum, of course, is another, but the garden is planted with mulberry trees planted by, as considered in the XVII century, – that she saw Keats.