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 The Abramtsevo estate today is one of the most famous places in the Moscow region, with which quite a few bright pages of the culture and history of Russia are connected. The estate is located near the Khotkovo Monastery, as well as the famous city of Sergiev Posad with its Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The Abramtsevo estate is today a literary, historical and art museum-reserve. Admiring the rural surroundings, the beauty of local architectural structures, you can feel nostalgia and get into a romantic mood.
Based on the sources, the history of the estate began in 1755. Initially, until 1782, it was the property of the Golovins family. The house with a mezzanine was built in the 70s. XVIII century. It was rather modest, trimmed with gray board. Abramtsevo was the residence of the writer Aksakov for 16 years.
While walking around the estate, you will see a large lawn with a three-hundred-year-old oak that evokes Pushkin's Lukomorye. Behind the lawn, you will see a white two-story building that embodies the colonial style. It was built in the 30s of the XX century. as a medical building.
Passing through the grove, you will see a small house that was once the residence of the artist Polenov. Currently, there is a museum dedicated to this artist.
On the other side of the lawn is the main building of the Abramtsevo estate - a two-story wooden house with two wings. There is a museum here, where visitors can at any time explore the interior of the house (paintings, furniture, books, etc.). One of the most remarkable exhibits of the house is a stove with tiles created by Vrubel.
To the left of the entrance to Abramtsevo, a beautiful jasmine grows, and in its shadow stands a stone woman. Another similar statue is located near the "hut on chicken legs". These statues of the Scythians were brought to the estate in the 19th century. from the Kharkov province.
You can also see beautiful wooden buildings here. One of them is a museum, where you can see samples of peasant life.
One more house is also noteworthy, in which the "Artist's Workshop" is opened, which is a museum with a basement used as an art workshop. Here visitors can always try themselves in the creation of painted plates. If you go down the path between the kitchen and the workshop, there you can admire the beautifully blooming peonies.
For 15 years, the Abramtsevo estate was considered by contemporaries as a hotbed of cultural and social life in Russia. It was here that many very famous people constantly met, talked, argued. Turgenev, Tyutchev, Granovsky, Schepkin, Gogol and other representatives of the creative elite visited the Aksakovs from time to time. It is noteworthy that in 1849 the Aksakov family first heard from Gogol the chapter "Dead Souls", which later became part of the second part of the poem.
In 1870, the owner of the estate changed. 11 years after the death of Aksakov, Abramtsevo was sold to a philanthropist, entrepreneur Savva Mamontov. He immediately took up the arrangement of the estate and put in order the dilapidated buildings. Fortunately, Savva Morozov tried to preserve the "Aksakov spirit" of the estate, and therefore it has been preserved in the form in which it was, even gotten even better.
The main innovation of Mamontov is the construction of the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands. It was distinguished by a modern style for that time - the Novgorod-Pskov architecture. Later, the temple was made the tomb of the Mamontov family. Sawa himself and his family were buried there.
After the 1917 revolution, the village of Novo-Abramtsevo was built not far from Abramtsevo.Grabar, Falk, Mukhina, Konchalovsky and other successors of all the best of what was done here before lived and worked there.
In 1920, the People's Commissariat for Education decided to create a literary and historical and art museum-reserve on the basis of the Abramtsevo estate. So everyone can come here and walk along the paths breathing history.
Mikhailova O.
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