Pushkin House, designed by the architect IF Luchini with the classic eight-columned portico and copper statues of Mercury, Neptune and Ceres, a pediment over the main building of the former Maritime Customs House (Russian Empire style, thirties, XIX century).. According to legend, visited him and Pushkin.

The scale and nature of the plan is building on the waterfront Makarova even surpassed that will be built according to the original project. Assembly and the collection, internally fragmented and scattered, were finally merged into a kind of integrity. This allowed us to build an exposition on the historical principle, of course, with an emphasis dictated by the characteristics and volumes of the materials themselves. Over time, this aspect of the case came to the fore in the museum: a common literary process ceased to be the main theme of the exposition. It became especially so to speak, a monographic study.

In Pushkin's jubilee in 1999 before the Pushkin House was erected, or rather, restored classic bust of the poet, the sculptor I. Schroeder, who once stood on Kamennoostrovsky avenue in front of the Alexander became Tsarskoselskii Lyceum. This gives the whole ensemble pushkinodomskomu completeness. And in the yard, with a discreet facade, built a modern archive building, coupled with the main body glazed transition.

In 1930, Pushkin House is an academic Institute of Russian Literature (in abbreviated form - IRLI), retaining its title of the firstborn - Pushkin House and revealing a complex museum-research facility, unique in the world for originality.