Reserve Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye": "Greetings, a deserted corner!"

Pushkinsky reserve "Mikhailovskoye" is located in the center of the Pskov region, among the forests, far from the city bustle. This is an especially valuable monument of the culture of the peoples of the Russian Federation since 1995. It is believed that here is the poetic birthplace of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837). The hilly terrain, the surface of the lakes of Kuchane and Malenets, a powerful pine forest stretching out to half of the seven hundred hectares occupied by the national treasure, looks like a natural deity that has become an inspiration, a life, tears, the love of the classic of Russian literature.

Three dates

Everyone who cherishes the work of the poet wants to visit the Pushkin reserve. The district, which keeps the great pages of history, includes the Mikhailovskoye, Trigorskoye and Petrovskoye estates, as well as Voronich, Savkino, Vrev, Velye settlements. In the eighteenth century, the estate was founded by Pushkin's grandfather by his mother Osip Abramovich Hannibal. On the mature memory of the poet, this is the mother's nest of mother Nadezhda Osipovna Pushkina.

There is an opinion that the Pskov freedom granted Alexander Sergeevich special inspiration. Here were born more than a hundred of his works - poems, poems. The descendant of Hannibal visited Mikhailovsky in 1817-1819, lived for two years of exile (1824-1826). Many years later, in 1922, according to the decision of the Soviet government, Pushkin's sites were recognized as reserved.

There are many events in the open-air museum. Main:

• Birthday of the poet - June 6 (old style - May 26).
• Day of exile in Mikhailovskoe (August).
• The day of death is February 10 (January 29).

In these dates, the reserve is filled with a large number of people. They are local residents, guests from different parts of Russia, near and far abroad. The festival of Pushkin's poetry, held in early June in the village of Pushkinskie Gory, is known all over the world.

The gift of Elizabeth Petrovna

At least once in my life is worth visiting the Pushkin reserve "Mikhailovskoye". Reviews of tourists say: this is a special world, melting many interesting facts that compose the annals of the Pushkin-Hannibal house with adjoining structures and lands. As is known, in 1742, part of the royal possessions Mikhailovskaya Bay presented Abram Petrovich Hannibal ("arap") the youngest daughter of Peter Alekseevich Romanov Elizabeth I.

After the demise, possession was given to the son Osip Abramovich Hannibal, the grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, who, as said, acted as the organizer of the creation of a small village on the bank of the Soroti River. The cloister of the gentlemen and the wings of the attendants grew on a hill. Before him and in modern times there is a peculiar symbol of Mikhailovsky - a driveway. From the south, the estate is decorated with a park, flowing seamlessly into a pine forest.

From the slope of the hill is visible Sorot, the valley of Lake Petrovsky (a pond is sometimes called Kuchane) and the park with the same name. The house is not the one in which Pushkin lived, but was reconstructed in strict accordance with the surviving descriptions. It was decided to build the main museum exposition. For many years she is popular.

Good friend of poor youth

Tourists arriving in the reserve, the Pushkin spirit feel immediately, as soon as they find themselves at the main southern entrance to the manor house. Already in the hallway before them appears Mikhailovsky's story. The heart is worried at the sight of the door on the right: behind it is the office of Pushkin himself. It has been restored to the smallest detail: there is even a bench under the feet, which Alexandra Kern presented to Alexander . And with a massive iron cane the poet liked to travel to Svyatogorye for fairs.

On the contrary - the room of a friend of the days of his harsh, decrepit dove-nurse. This is the so-called maiden, where, under the direction of Arina Rodionovna, courtyard girls were engaged in needlework. Parents Alexander Sergeevich on rare visits occupied three rooms on the north side of the house (bedroom, hall, dining room).

The colorful interior complements the billiard table, which is called, exactly the same as when a player is famous for the whole world with his remarkable literary talent. To the left of the house-museum you can see the nanny's house, lurking among the lilacs and acacias.

On one side there is a bathhouse, on the other - a light, where, probably, the old lady and "dozed under the buzzing of her spindle", when the storm darkened the sky. Nearby - three wings, where the manager and the clerk lived, there was a kitchen and a people's.

Genius of Beauty Anna

Pushkin loved to walk in the park, broken by his grandfather Osip Hannibal at the end of the eighteenth century. The fur-tree avenue still permeates the massif today. Through it once drove into possession. There are almost no old trees.

The famous family had its own chapel. It is restored in its historical place, at the very end of the spruce kingdom. At an angle to the coniferous expanse is the linden alley of Anna Kern. In the June shadow of young linden, Alexander admired the gentle image of a lady, her heavenly features. The case was in the summer of 1825, when Kern came to Mikhailovskoe, today entering the Pushkin reserve.

The ponds of the park are also noteworthy. On one of them there is a secret place - an island of solitude, where often there was Pushkin: poets love solitude. It is pleasant to note that here everything is restored with great scrupulousness: bridges, brooding pavilions. Found and re-laid old stitches-paths. On the western outskirts of the manor there is Lake Malenec, surrounded by a pine forest, which Alexander Sergeyevich also liked to visit.

The Last Shelter

Preserve Pushkin tells so much that, it seems, do not overhear and do not reconsider! Thus, Trigorsky (Yegoryevskaya Bay) was owned by the neighbors and friends of the Pushkin Osipov-Wolf. The village is located on one of three hills (hence the name) to the west of Mikhailovskoye.

Three kilometers through the forest past Lake Malenets - and dear comrades already on a visit with Alexander Sergeevich (or he at them). Pushkin liked to sit in the big library of the Osipovs. Their house was burnt in a stormy 1918, but in the sixties of the twentieth century it was restored. It has a museum (as in the house of AP Hannibal in the village of Petrovsky).

And about the Holy Mountains. They went through Bugrovo (village), passing the mill Svyatogorsky monastery (water). Hydrotechnical structure was restored. Along with other objects of the show (miller's house, peasant's yard, barn), it harmoniously blended into the museum complex. Svyatogorskaya Uspensky monastery is known since antiquity. Here are the graves of the grandfather and grandmother of Alexander Pushkin, his mother. And next to them - the last shelter of the 37-year-old classic of Russian literature.