Gogol`s house in Nikitsky Boulevard is the only place in Moscow that keeps the memory of the last years of Nikolai Gogol alive.

Idea of establishing here a museum appeared in 1909, in the year of 100th anniversary of Gogol`s birth, though it took years to bring it to life. City library № 2 moved to the house in Nikitsky in 1971. Three years later a museum — The Memorial Rooms of Gogol was created in the rooms where Gogol lived and worked during 1848-1852. Cabinet and reception room were recreated on memoirs of Gogol`s contemporaries. Collaborators of the library worked hard to form the exposition of the rooms, searching for furniture, old pieces and rare books, including Gogol`s lifetime editions.

In 2005 City library № 2 were transformed into Central City Library Memorial Centre «Gogol House».

We are pleased to inform you that our library-museum resumes services, which were partly frozen due to the renovation. With the beginning of the school year the doors of the department of musical scores, inquiry-bibliographical department and the reading room are opened. Visitors of the reading room can order a book or search information via internet again. Diversified stocks of the loan department are also available for the readers. Our collaborates will help you not to get lost in the great amount of information and find the book you need in the catalogue.

The department of musical scores is also at you service. Its premises, widened during renovation, can now admit everyone willing to study here. For students convenience we expanded the stocks of the department of musical scores by adjoining to it theoretical literature from the reading room. We continue digitizing old editions of opera piano reductions, aimed at preserving the unique stocks. We also form video collections of musical performances, operas, ballets, concerts and musicals. The department cooperates with music publishing house «Barenreiter Urtext» (Chech Republic) and «Philarmoniya», as well as publishing houses «Muzika», «Kompositor» and «Dominanta». The stocks of the department were enriched due to the cooperation with book department of the store «Simphonija», «Letniy Sad» and music concern «Sojuz».

The location of the «Gogol House» always attracted students from institutes, situated nearby such as Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Music College of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Gnesin Academy of Music, Russian Academy of Theater Art. The department of musical scores is very popular among youth. About 400 students visit Gogol Memorial Center every day.

We continue holding literature-theatrical meetings, holidays, and workshops of literature and philosophical discussion club «In Gogol`s House» as well as tours and lections.