Virtual Excursion

The Velimir Khlebnikov house-museum is located on the site of the former apartment-house belonged to Polyakov (1909) in Velimir's parents' Astrakhan flat to be exact. In 1911-1919 Velimir often arrived here in Bolshaya Demidovskaya str. (present 53, Sverdlova str.). In 1931 the artist Vera Khlebnikova, Velimir's sister took her parents from here to Moscow and left "her ancestors' town" forever. The exhibition display of the only Khlebnikov house-museum in the world is based on the "Khlebnikov collection" donated by May Miturich-Khlebnikov, the poet's nephew.