"In one of the outlying streets of Moscow, in a gray house with white columns, mezzanine and balcony crooked, once lived a lady, a widow, surrounded by many servants" - so begins the famous novel by Ivan Turgenev "Mumu. Thanks to Ivan Sergeyevich this really existing house is inscribed in the history of Moscow, in the history of Russian literature. Previously he lived in the house of the writer's mother. Today, the mansion is the first and only in the Moscow Museum of Ivan Turgenev