The museum building was built as a watchdog to strengthen in the first half of the eighteenth century and served as a transit point for prisoners, marching on the stage. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the building housed the police department. By increasing the area of ​​the house due to the extension (from the northeast) and built on the third floor, in the management of the 1880s translated.

In the mid-nineteenth century, the building moves Sretenskoe male primary school, where from 1899. by 1901. I studied the letter and the law of God KA Fedin. In the post-revolutionary period, the building was given to the kindergarten, where he was warmly lasted until the 70s.

In 1981. the building was opened State Museum named after KA Fedin, the main exhibition which is "the history of literature of the twentieth century."

The museum building is one of the oldest buildings in the city, survived to this day, and is an architectural monument.

Fedin The museum often hosts poetry readings, meetings with artists and writers, musicians and poets. Every year, in the "Night of Museums" (a tradition loved Saratov) building opens its doors to all who wish to join the literature and the arts, spending every fifteen minutes free tours.

The museum is located at the intersection of Chernyshevsky and October, on the area of ​​KA Fedin, in a picturesque location. With an area overlook the Volga River, in the center of it passes cascading fountain (a favorite place for kids) and completes the area of ​​the monument Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin with broken circular beds with ornate flowers.