Museums of Russia: The Manor House opened at the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo”

The restoration of the Manor House Museum of the Museum-Reserve “Abramtsevo” (the Moscow region) is over. The opening of the manor was held on October 10, 2013.

This date was not chosen by chance: 95 years ago the first director of the Museum Alexandra Savvishna Mamontova has been given a safe-conduct, and this date was the day of the founding of the museum.

For the first time in the history of the museum to visitors were opened all museum halls of the first floor and the mezzanine, where stayed Gogol. It is exhibited more than 700 works. Most of them belong to the memorial, reflecting the life and work of the writer Sergei Aksakov family, and a family of large industrialist, Russian cultural worker, art patron Savva Mamontov and artists - participants of the Abramtsevsky circle.

The Manor House is monument of Russian wooden classicism of the XVIII-XIX centuries. Here, in a small space, is concentrated more than a two hundred year history of Russian art and literature. For the first time here were read chapters of the second volume of “Dead Souls” by Gogol. Among them were Turgenev, Shepkin, Khomyakov, the Kireevskye brothers.

The Manor House is captured on canvases by Repin, Konchalovsky, here lived and worked Polenov, Vasnetsov, Ostroukhov, Korovin, Vrubel, Surikov and other famous Russian artists.