Russian museums: The military fortress of the Pugachev rebellion time to be recreated in the village of Boldino

In the village of Boldino of the Nizhny Novgorod region will be recreated a military fortress of the Pugachev rebellion. There will be located a museum dedicated to the works of Alexander Pushkin and his story "The Captain's Daughter", the head of the Grand Boldino district Vladimir Kochetov said.

According to him, the fortress will be recreated, as described in the third chapter of "The Captain's Daughter". Under new touristic object will be allocated the land in 2.5 hectares of land on the outskirts of the district center Grand Boldino away from the historic Boldino, where the museum-estate of the poet and the Assumption Church is located. The existing Boldino museum complex should preserve chamber atmosphere, says Kochetov.

Boldino – is one of the two generic estates of Pushkin (along with the Mikhailovskoe) with an authentic home-estate. He came here in autumn 1830, 1833 and 1834 and always worked much. Here Pushkin wrote " The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin ", the poem "The Bronze Horseman", the dramatic series "Little Tragedies", the novel "The Queen of Spades", the chapters of "Eugene Onegin", almost all the stories and more than 50 lyric poems.