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Alexander Bestuzhev House

Derbent, Russia · built 1986

The Alexander Bestuzhev House, also known as Memorial house museum of A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky is a writer's house museum in the city of Derbent, Dagestan, where the Decembrist writer Alexander Bestuzhev lived in 1830-1834. He was transferred to the Caucasus after exile in Yakutsk, where he was sent for participating in the Senate Square uprising. The museum is part of the Derbent State Historical, Architectural and Archaeological Museum-Reserve.

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