Kashirin House is the place that Maxim Gorky described in his autobiographical novella My Childhood. Alyosha Peshkov, who would come to be known as Maxim Gorky, got here at the age of three and within just one year had his fill of impressions to last him for the rest of his life.

Today this is a museum that will be of interest both to aficionados of Gorky’s work and anyone who wants to know more about the life of Nizhny Novgorod commoners at the end of the 19th century. The exhibition features authentic household items from that period, including some that belonged to the Kashirins. In order to help recreate the setting, Gorky personally drew a plan of the house.