The Rumyantsev Manion was built in the 1730s and 1740s for the Rumyantsev noble family.  In 1831 the mansion housed the first privately-owned public museum in Russia, which was later transferred to Moscow and served as the basis of the State Library and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art.  Later the family of the Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg, who married into the Romanov family, lived at the house. Today the mansion is used as a branch of the History of St Petersburg Museum. The museum has permanent exhibits on the history of the house and the Rumyantsev family, the NEP, the 1930s and the Siege of Leningrad.  It also holds various temporary exhibits. 

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