The literary quarter is a unique phenomenon in the city. The city of Yekaterinburg is the only city in the country that has such a landmark as a whole literary quarter. Currently, the Literary Quarter is the location of the branches of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals: the house museum of DN Mamin-Sibiryak, the museum "Literary life of the Urals of the XIX century", the museum of F. Reshetnikov, the museum "Literary life of the Urals of the XX century ", A museum of dolls and a children's book" The Land of Wonders ". On the territory of the Literary Quarter is the Chamber Theater, which is also located in the structure of the United Museum of Writers of the Urals, a park with a summer stage made in the style of the early twentieth century. The United Museum of Writers of the Urals today is a major center in which not only museum, but also theatrical and publishing activities are synthesized. The museum has its own printed publication - the magazine "Literary Quarter", which is the only periodical printed space of literary museums in Russia.
During the tour of the literary quarter, you can walk along the ancient slabs of the stone pavement, see the lanterns of old Yekaterinburg, the shady alleys of trees that grew in the city center 200 years ago, admire the town mansions of literary museums, meet modern poets and writers who visit talents of past eras.
 Museum "Literary Life of the Urals of the Nineteenth Century"Very often in the evening gloom amid the foliage of the city park near the beautiful Temple glows the windows of a two-story, ancient house. If you listen, you will hear a gentle female voice floating over the flowers of the bird cherry and the sounds of the piano. On a deserted street - not a soul. The first star is reflected in the dome of the cathedral, and in a small house on the street. Tolmachev (the former Kolobovskaya) the shadows of the past come to life.
What is this house? What memories do these walls have? This is one of the little-known addresses of the famous writer DN Mamin-Sibiryak. The house belonged to Maria Yakimovna Alekseeva, with whom Dmitry Narkisovich was connected by a scandalous and tragic love story. Today here is a museum in which not only the most fruitful Yekaterinburg period of the writer's work is reflected, but also the literary life of the Urals of the XIX century is presented. Here you can get acquainted with the documents telling about the famous Yekaterinburg residents - contemporaries of Mamin-Sibiryak, with the theatrical and musical life of the city of that time. The atmosphere of those times is recreated in musical evenings, literary lounges, during home readings, which are often in the museum's work program.
Museum "Literary Life of the Urals of the Twentieth Century"Among the white stone mansions of the 19th century, the patterned wooden tower with a silver roof of various configurations and a high porch with openwork rails and a canopy, with round, semicircular windows with kokoshniks, tall doors decorated with a mysterious pattern, a deaf wooden carving and transparent lace on the eaves. Flies this fabulous ship, attracting and attracting its unusual beauty and some secret, revived literally from the ashes, like a bird phoenix - a monument of architecture of the Russian provincial wooden Art Nouveau.
He was born in the "silver age" and opened with a very organic exhibition for him in 1993 "Alexander Blok and the" silver age "of Russian culture." In this house there were many other miracles: the exhibition "Tales of the Ural Mountains", an exhibition of the collection of G. I. Shchekutov dedicated to A. Pushkin. Now visiting the house of the French writer Stendhal and the exhibition of the Municipal Library of Grenoble - "Stendhal: a rebel and a dreamer." At the exhibition there are writers from different countries: the USA, France, Italy, China, etc.
The museum is open to everyone, you can get acquainted with the writings of the writers of the Urals, meet with young authors, listen to romances, participate in the presentation of new books, new works by artists, hold a family celebration, children's morning performance. The museum meets all wishes.
House-museum of FM ReshetnikovThe literary-memorial house-museum of the writer Feodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov was opened on October 1, 1991 in an old two-story mansion on the street. Proletarian (the former Officers). Urban legends say that here the future writer was born in the family of the Yekaterinburg postman.
The house was built in the forties of the XIX century by the merchant Karnaukhov, the last owner of the house was the wife of a local postmaster and handed over the rooms to postal employees.
The literary and memorial parts of the museum are inextricably linked, since the writer was born in the postman's family and was brought up by his uncle-postal employees, and many of the heroes of the writer's works are postmen and coachmen. The story about the life and work of the writer goes into the story of the postal service of the XIX century, its traditions and customs. In the museum, a coachman's stable, a stable and a carriage shed are reproduced. There are items of road life, postal wagons, household utensils - all this recreates the atmosphere of the Ural Postal Court of the second