🖼 Tchaikovsky House-Museum

Клин, ул. Чайковского, 48

The house where Tchaikovsky spent his last year and a half and wrote the Sixth Symphony: the rooms are kept as in his time, and his Becker piano stands in the drawing room.

Tchaikovsky rented this house from the justice of the peace V. S. Sakharov from May 1892.
It is Russia's oldest memorial music museum: it received its first visitors on 9 (21) December 1894.
The museum was created by the composer's younger brother Modest Ilyich; the house was bought first in the name of Tchaikovsky's servant Alexey Sofronov.
During the war German troops looted the museum; footage of the ravaged house appears in the film “The Defeat of the German Armies near Moscow”.
The collection holds over 200,000 items, and since 1958 the museum has kept the archive of the history of the Tchaikovsky Competition.
The outbuilding has an exhibition about Tchaikovsky's favourite pupil Sergey Taneyev.

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Klin: Christmas-tree ornaments and Tchaikovsky's house