Yevtushenko's house to become state-run museum

The AP reports that celebrated Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has given his house and art collection over to the state:

The two-story museum in the writer's colony of Peredelkino, just outside Moscow, joins nearby house-museums, including those of Boris Pasternak and Bulat Okudjava. It contains paintings by Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

The museum also exhibits Yevtushenko's photographs from his travels in Siberia, China, Italy, the Middle East, and items collected during his life, among which is American writer Mark Twain's cane . . .