🖼 Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve: the Main Manor House

Сергиево-Посадский г. о., с. Абрамцево, Музейная ул., 1

The estate of the Aksakovs, later of Savva Mamontov: Gogol, Turgenev, Repin, Serov and Vrubel were guests here, and “Girl with Peaches” was painted in this house's dining room.

The house was built under the Golovins in the late 18th century: it is the oldest building on the estate and a rare monument of wooden classicism.
The mezzanine with two rooms was added by the Molchanovs, who bought the estate in 1797.
Gogol stayed in the mezzanine room with windows onto the yard, and in August 1849 read chapters of the second volume of “Dead Souls” at Abramtsevo.
After buying the estate in 1870, Mamontov wrote that the house had to be almost rebuilt: no foundation, a rotten roof, not a single usable stove.
The Mamontovs gathered the furniture, paintings and books of the Aksakov exhibition from Moscow antique shops and junk dealers.
The estate museum was founded on 10 October 1919, and Mamontov's daughter Alexandra Savvichna became its first keeper.
Tarkovsky's “Solaris” (1972) and Avdotya Smirnova's “Two Days” (2011) were filmed at Abramtsevo.

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Abramtsevo: the Mamontov estate and Khotkovo Monastery