Pushkin Museum in Vilnius renamed as Markučiai Manor Museum

The Vilnius City Council has renamed the Literary Museum of Alexander Pushkin opened in the 1950s to the historic Markučiai Manor, the Council said in a statement.

“We have several excellent manors in suburbs of Vilnius city, including Verkiai, Trakų Vokė Manor, and we have a very beautiful Markučiai Manor, which obtained the halo of a museum of Russian literature, and the name of Pushkin due to the family ties of the owners, at some time. But we are reloading this story, going back to the historical name used at the beginning of the 20th century. It will still have accents of Russian culture in Lithuania, but there will also be additional activities,” said Remigijus Šimašius, the mayor of Vilnius.