The playwright and novelist Leonid Andreev was born in Oryol in 1871 and the family house where he spent his childhood has been turned into the Leonid Andreev House-Museum. The house itself is the main exhibit and it has been preserved as it would have looked when Andreev lived there. Also on display are photographs of the playwright and materials on his work. The museum is run as part of the Ivan Turgenev State Literary Museum.