Pushkin House
In 1927 Pushkin House moved from the crammed rooms in the Academy of Sciences building to the magnificent neo-Palladian Customs House, built after Giovanni Francesco Lucchini's designs in 1829–1832 and situated just around the Strelka. It was to the original Kunstkamera rooms that Alexander Blok referred in his last poem "To Pushkin House", celebrating Pushkin's heritage as a gleam of hope during the chaos and confusion of the post-revolutionary years: