The house-Museum of A. M. Gorky is located in one of the quietest places in modern Moscow. The mansion, built by the architect F. O. Shekhtel in 1902 to millionaire Ryabushinsky, is located at the intersection of Malaya Nikitskaya and Spiridonovka. Luxury house in the art Nouveau style was a gift from Stalin to the writer Maxim Gorky. In 1931, returned from Italy Gorky settled in the Ryabushinsky house.

The interiors of the house are artistic and original. Beautiful mosaics were executed under sketches Schechtel in St.-Petersburg Studio of Vladimir Frolov. In the finishing of woven Gothic and Moorish styles. In the internal decoration of the house was attended by the artist M. Vrubel. The interiors of the house are amazing splendor. The main decoration of the interior of the house was the staircase located in the lobby. It resembles a wave that lifts to the top of the chandelier-jellyfish. Green walls are reminiscent of the element of the sea. The handles on the doors in the shape of a seahorse. The rooms are decorated in a nautical and floral motifs. Interior details are fraught with hidden snails and butterflies. If you look closely, you can see bubbling in a house special life.

The facade is decorated with majolica frieze. Figure fancy woven irises. Cladding of facades made of glazed brick. Walls are cut with large square Windows.

There are in the mansion the secret of the old believers ' chapel, located in the attic. It is not visible from the street. The dome and walls covered with abstract unique temple paintings.

After the revolution, the Ryabushinsky mansion was nationalized. The Ryabushinsky family emigrated. The mansion has placed the people's Commissariat of foreign Affairs. Then there was the state publishing house, psychoanalytic Institute and even kindergarten. During this period have been lost pieces of furniture and lamps, made from sketches Schechtel. Was destroyed the ventilation system of the house and dismantled the fireplace in the dining room, made of Carrara marble.

Stained glass Windows, parquet, marble, luxury lamps, paintings on the ceilings of the mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya not very consistent taste proletarian writer. Gorky not just talking about it.

Library in the house is spacious and lit by a huge window. It has a lot of cabinetry and cozy leather chairs. Dining room – the biggest room in the house. At a large table often had discussions about literature. It was visited almost all famous writers of the time. Study more other premises reflects the bitter taste. It looks like all rooms are bitter, wherever he lived: in Italy, in the Crimea and in Moscow dacha.

Gorky lived in a mansion on Malaya Nikitskaya 6 years. Here he died in 1936. The Museum of A. M. Gorky began working in 1965.