The House-Museum of Pavel Korin, part of the All-Union (All-Russia since 1994) Museum Association of the State Tretyakov Gallery, is located in a small building on 16-2 Malaya Pirogovskaya Street. The artist moved here in 1933. A considerable part of P.Korin’s creative and art collecting work, which consisted of an extensive collection of old Russian icons, is associated with the house. At the end of his life the artist composed a will where he left everything he owned, including his icon collection, house and everything that was in it to the Tretyakov Gallery. His property was to be preserved in the same condition as the day he died. When Pavel Korin died, his widow Prascovia Korina addressed the Gallery and the Ministry of Culture in the USSR in 1967 with the same proposal. The Council of Ministers of the USSR passed a decree accepting the old Russian art collection as a gift and established an art museum, a branch of the Tretyakov Gallery, in the Pavel Korin’s house. Its first director and guardian was Prascovia Korina. 

The present exhibition at the memorial museum includes several rooms - the living quarters and the studio of Pavel Korin.

The "Green Sitting Room’s" interior and that of the dining room and bedroom has been preserved as it was during the artist’s life. The uniqueness of these rooms is in the old furniture and, above all, the extensive icon collection (approximately 200). They include the most interesting and aesthetically valuable works, such as the icons,"The Nativity of the Virgin" (early 15th century, Pskov school), "The Miracle in Khonekh" icon (first half of the 15th century) and "The Virgin Hodegretria with Saints on the Margins" (first half of the 15th century). A separate wall is allocated to the Palekh icons from the 18th-19th centuries. Palekh, Korin’s native region, saw the start of his collection during the 1920-1930s.

The studio displays the artist’s work produced at different times in his life. They include the landscape entitled My Motherland (1928-1947), which depicts the Palekh neighbourhood. The exhibition’s main aim is displaying a painting considered to be his lifetime work entitled, "Requiem. Rus disappearing" (a sketch, 1935-1959). A large number of studies which have the effect and value of independent works of art are on displayed. They include Metropolitan Trifon (1929), The Beggar (1933), Hieromonk Father Pimen and Bishop Antonius (1935), Thamar, the Hegumenness of Great Schema (1935), etc. A large canvas, still untouched, is leaning against the wall.

The museum keeps materials associated with P.Korin’s work on the Komsomolskaya metro station (circle line) mosaic and on Novoslobodskaya metro station (1951-1952) stained-glass in Moscow.

The House-Museum of Pavel Korin helps its visitors to become acquainted with the personality of a brilliant and original Russian artist from the Soviet period.