Neamt County is a place of legend, history and culture with a rare beauty that overwhelms every visitor. It’s just what happened with the writer Mihail Sadoveanu that spent his last years in a house near Neamt Monastery.

He knew this place from 1920 when a friend became a monk at Vovidenia Hermitage. About the life of this monk Sadoveanu talks in his book The Demon of Youth, written in 1928 while he was at Vovidenia. Sadoveanu was fascinated of this place, of the forests that surrounded Vovidenia and he said that a walk on the trails of these forests is like climbing a stair to heaven.

The house from Vovidenia that now is a museum represents a reference point for the writer after 1947. Between 1956 and 1961 Mihail Sadoveanu spent most of his time here, near a place that served as inspiration for his books “Nada florilor”, “Nicoara Potcoava”, “Pauna Mica” or “Lisaveta”.

The museum was created with the support of the family of the writer and contains authentic pieces of furniture, the samurai sword, an ivory chess, documents, photos, a library of over 75 books, among which there are many first editions and documents that belonged to Mihail Sadoveanu.