In 1977 the Yevgeni Boratynsky Museum was opened in a school building and in the Boratynsky city estate. Boratynsky was a poet of the same era as Aleksandr Pushkin, who described Boratynsky as Russia’s finest elegiac poet. Boratynsky briefly lived in Kazan as his wife had an estate nearby. The museum has two main expositions: ‘The Boratynskys - Centuries in Kazan’, which details the Boratynsky family and its connection with the city, and the ‘Life and Work of Yevgeni Boratynsky’, which has information of the poet’s work throughout his life living in various cities. The museum is run as part of the State Unified Museum of Tatarstan.