House-Museum of Gorky is located in one of the quietest places of modern Moscow. The mansion, built by architect F. Shekhtel in 1902 for millionaire Ryabushinsky located at the intersection of Little Nikita and Spiridonovka. Luxury house in Art Nouveau style was Stalin's gift to the writer Maxim Gorky. In 1931, returning from Italy Gorky lived in the house Ryabushinsky.

The interiors of the house are original and artistic. Beautiful mosaics were executed under sketches of Petersburg Shechtel in the studio Vladimir Frolov. In finishing woven Gothic and Moorish styles. The interior decoration of the house took part artist Mikhail Vrubel. The interiors of the house are striking splendor. The main decoration of the interior of the house was the grand staircase, located in the lobby. It is like a wave that lifts to the top of the chandelier, jellyfish. Green wall element reminiscent of the sea. Handles on the doors in the shape of a seahorse. In the design of rooms used by marine and plant motifs. Details interiors pose camouflaged snails and butterflies. If you look closely, you can see boiling in the house a special life.

The facade is decorated with majolica frieze. Figure intricately woven irises. Facing the façade glazed brick. Walls cut large square windows.

There is a secret mansion Old Believers Chapel, located in the attic. It is not visible from the street. The dome and the walls are covered in her abstract paintings a unique temple.

After the revolution the house was nationalized Ryabushinsky. Family Ryabushinsky emigrated. The mansion is located in the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. Then there was the State Publishing House, the psychoanalytic institute and even kindergarten. In this period they were lost pieces of furniture and fixtures made of sketches Shechtel. The ventilation system was destroyed houses and demolished 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 match the taste of the proletarian writer. Gorky himself said many times about this.

The library in the house is spacious and illuminated by a large window. It is full of spacious closets and comfortable leather chairs. Dining room - the largest room in the house. For a large table is often held discussions about literature. It was visited by almost all well-known writers of the time. Cabinet more than any other premises reflects the taste of Gorky. It is similar to all the rooms of Gorky, where he lives: in Italy, in the Crimea or dacha outside Moscow.

Gorky lived in the house on Malaya Nikitskaya 6 years. There he died in 1936. Museum AM Gorky began to work in 1965.