Historical Background
This house was built for Ivan Petrovich Wulf, the grandfather of Anna Kern, who is best known to history as the “muse” of Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin dedicated to Anna the famous lines “I remember a wondrous moment…” Later the composer Mikhail Glinka set this poem of Pushkin's to music as a romance, dedicating it to his beloved, Ekaterina Kern, Anna Kern's daughter.



