Gorki Leninskie

The estate at Gorki Leninskie, just over 30km south of Moscow, was established in the 18th century, and its pre-revolution owners included General Pisarev, hero of the 1812 war, and Zinaida Morozova, widow of the famous Moscow industrialist and theatrical patron Savva Morozov. The estate's fame rests on the fact that it was chosen by Lenin for his convalescence after Fanya Kaplin's attempted assassination in 1918. He spent the last ten months of his life here with his wife and siblings.

The estate was officially turned into a museum in 1938, and there are a lot of interesting things there, including some of Lenin’s personal effects: some letters he wrote, books he was reading, and Lenin’s specially-made Rolls Royce car, which is probably the highlight of the whole place.