🖼 Gorki Museum-Estate

Ленинский г. о., пгт Горки Ленинские, Траурная аллея

The estate's main house, rebuilt by Shekhtel for Zinaida Morozova; Lenin spent his last years here and died in January 1924.

In 1909 the estate was bought by Zinaida Morozova, widow of Savva Morozov, who had married Moscow's governor Anatoly Reinbot.
Lenin first came to Gorki on 24–25 September 1918, after the assassination attempt, and lived here for about two years in total.
On Sverdlov's orders, the Kremlin commandant Pavel Malkov chose the house for Lenin: a “not too luxurious” mansion was needed.
Morozova's gilded furniture was hidden under white covers in Soviet times; they were removed only in the 21st century.
The farmyard, water tower and stables were built in 1913–1915 to a design by the architect Fyodor Kolbe.
After Lenin's death, until 1949, the family of his brother Dmitry Ilyich lived in the house.
On Funeral Alley stands Sergey Merkurov's granite composition “Death of the Leader”: nine workers carry Lenin's body.

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