The museum is a representative building of Russian art nouveau architecture, and the interior and exterior decoration are very chic. After Gorky returned to his motherland from Italy, the government allocated the residence to him, which was undoubtedly a holy place for Soviet literature. Gorky is a proletarian writer in the former Soviet Union, the founder of socialist realism literature, and his works include "The Bottom" and "Mother". This is where Gorky lived in his later years, once the private house of Russian rich man Riabshensky, designed and built by Fedor Schefdri. Out of Gorky's former residence, through a low iron fence, came the former residence of A Tolstoy, the author of "The History of Suffering." There is also another Gorky museum nearby.