Pushkin Museum

On Wednesday Ramsay and I visited the Pushkin Museum here in Chisinau. It is a small complex that includes the cottage where he lived when in exile in the early 1820s (pictured here) as well as other buildings that include exhibits and rooms for functions

Our Lonely Planet guidebook explains "It was here that he wrote The Prisoner of the Caucuses and other classics - that is, when he wasn't involved in amorous intrigues, hard drinking, and occasional violence of his social circles in what was then a rough-around-the-edges distant outpost of the Russian Empire."