Alexey Tolstoy is a celebrated Russian writer from the Soviet period whose works included Peter I and Syostry. Several of his books were dramatized for film and TV. Alexey Tolstoy lived in the mansion as a school boy, the lower storey was rented out while the upper storey was inhabited by himself and his family. The exhibition preserves the mansion much as it was when he lived there and includes information about his childhood and later life – including his voluntary exile after the 1917 revolution and his reconciliation and return to the Soviet Union. Some of the displays have English translations.