This is where Alexander Pushkin spent his first days in Odesa, after being exiled from Moscow by the tsar in 1823 for mischievous epigrams. Governor Vorontsov subsequently humiliated the writer with petty administrative jobs, and it took only 13 months, an affair with Vorontsov's wife, a simultaneous affair with someone else's wife and more epigrams for Pushkin to be thrown out of Odesa too. Somehow, he still found time while in town to finish the poem 'The Bakhchysaray Fountain', write the first chapter of Eugene Onegin, and scribble the notes and moaning letters found in this humble museum.
