Excursion «Literary Odessa»

Odessa is one of the youngest cities in Europe, with a history of just over two centuries. But the literary history of Odessa is rich and turbulent, and it began almost from the first days of the city’s founding.

You can get acquainted with it in detail in the halls of our museum on the tour “Literary Odessa of the XIX century”: from the first mentions of Odessa – to the first Odessa writers, from the appearance of the first manuscripts – to the heyday of Odessa journalism and printing at the end of the century. “Literary Odessa of the XIX century”.

A lot has happened during this glorious time – Kotlyarevsky and Nechuy-Levytsky, Batyushkov and Gnedych, Vasyl Zhukovsky and Lev Tolstoy visited our lands, Pushkin and Mickiewicz, Gogol and Korolenko, Avetik Isaakyan and Sholom-Aleichem lived and worked here. Vlas Doroshevich…
And each of these masters of the word has many interesting stories connected with their stay in Odessa, which our guides will be happy to tell you.