The Literary and Memorial Museum of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol in the village of Velikie Sorochintsy was opened in 1929, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth. The first Gogol museum in the USSR was located in the restored house of the local doctor M. Trokhimovsky, where the future writer was born in 1809. The museum's exposition of 7,000 exhibits is located in five halls, recreating the atmosphere of the 19th century. Among the unique exhibits are things that belonged to the writer - a copy of the certificate, a notebook, a cylinder, a portfolio with manuscripts; the first editions of the works “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”, “Dead Souls” and “Inspector General”, their translations into Ukrainian by Ivan Franko and Lesya Ukrainka; photographs of the life of Ukraine during Gogol's time, a photograph of Gogol's mother with four daughters, a copy of the death mask of Nikolai Vasilyevich. Next to the museum is Savior Transfiguration Church, where the writer was baptized.