Located in an old wooden house is a museum dedicated to Oryol's literary connections. The museum's seven halls are dedicated to the lives and works of the poet Afanasi Fet, the playwright and novelist Leonid Andreev, the prose writer Boris Zaitsev, and the authors Mikhail Prishvin and Ivan Novikov, all of whom were born in either Oryol itself or the Oryol Governorate. The museum is run as part of the Ivan Turgenev State Literary Museum.