Historian and writer Nikolai Karamzin, for example, wrote that the ceremony of marriage of the Slavs did not exist
at all, and their wedding rites were very cruel, the wife was bought by a husband and was treated as a slave in rights.
In 1986, a branch of the GMP was opened-“A.S. Apartment Pushkin on the Arbat.” Museum staff developed expositions in the Vulfov house in Bernov, Tver Region, where Pushkin came to visit his friends more than once, and in the estate of the Vyazemsky Princes Ostafyevo in the Moscow Region,
where Pushkin, Karamzin, Zhukovsky, Gogol visited.