 On 4 March 1938, they also opened the State Museum of Alexander Pushkin, which was later moved to Leningrad in 1949.On 16 April 1938, upon joining the Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences, it received its current name.It is now located at the former estate of the Gagarins, which was built in the first quarter of the 19th Century by Italian architect Domenico Gilardi.