Leonid Andreyev — the third of Oryol's literary trinity — was born here in 1871 and is remembered in a small house-museum in the city. Andreyev was one of the most widely-read Russian authors of the early 20th century, writing psychological fiction and plays that blended realism with expressionism and symbolism. His story The Seven Who Were Hanged and the novella The Life of Vasily Fiveysky are among his best-known works.
The museum is the simplest of Oryol's three literary museums, occupying the modest merchant family home where Andreyev grew up. It gives a sense of the environment that shaped him and documents his literary career, including the period of his international fame before the Revolution and his subsequent exile and relative obscurity. Less visited than the Turgenev or Leskov museums, it rewards those who know his work.