1. The Big Boldino

A photo: Alexey Kotlov / Photobank "Lori" Nizhny Novgorod region, 490 km along the Gorky highway. Working time: Tuesday - Sunday from 9:00 to 17:00, Monday - day off. Price: a tour of the museum house and manor lasts 1.5 hours adult ticket - 300 rubles., for schoolchildren, students and pensioners - 200 rubles., Preschoolers - for free). Alexander Pushkin's estate is located near the village of Diveevo, Nizhny Novgorod region. It was here that in the autumn months of 1830 and 1833 the poet experienced the highest creative take-off in his life, writing Little Tragedies, The Belkin's Tale, The Little House in Kolomna, the last chapters of Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades ", Fairy tales and lyric poems. The spirit of that era is alive here to this day: the manor house and manor park with a system of cascading ponds were preserved in their original form, and the furnishings of the rooms where the poet lived were recreated on a documentary basis. Visitors to the estate can also be photographed in the costumes of the Pushkin era and ride a phaeton. A few kilometers from the manors' estate there is a grove of Luchinnik - a favorite place for riding poetry. Here there is a spring with pure spring water, which the great poet loved to freshen in the summer heat. It's better to come to Boldino in the autumn, when flying webs and fiery foliage of trees reproduce the atmosphere of the famous poetic pore. If you want, you can stay in the hotel of the same name, located in walking distance from the museum-estate of Alexander Pushkin. The price is from 850 to 4500 rubles. depending on the number.

2. Konstantinovo

A photo: UNA / Photobank Lory Ryazan Region, 196 km along the Ryazan Highway. Working time: Tuesday - Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, Monday - day off. Price: single entrance ticket for 5 exposures - for adults on weekdays 300 rubles., Weekends and holidays - 350 rubles., For children under 16 years - for free. The mother of "the last poet of the village" Sergei Yesenin is located on the high bank of the Oka, from where it opens a breathtaking view. In the center of the village is the modest "manor" of Yesenin, a low village hut. In it, the stove, peasant utensils, a wooden bed with a quilt, the famous "old shashun" of the poet's mother, on the walls - family photos. From the window of the house you can see the ancient church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. In the territory of the museum-reserve there is a school where Sergey studied, the house of the priest Smirnov (he married the poet's parents and baptized him), the mansion of Lidia Kashina (Yesenin was friends with her, she became the prototype of the heroine in the poem "Anna Snegina"), the literary museum In the local "Tea" you will be treated to a peasant lunch of the beginning of the twentieth century and "treats of Grandma Tanya", Yesenin's mother. You can stay overnight at the guest house. On weekdays (from 12:00 pm to 12:00 pm), the accommodation of one person in a double room costs 600 rubles per day, at the weekend (from 12:00 pm to 12:00 pm) - 800 rubles per day.

3. Melihovo

A photo: Dmitry Neumoin / Photobank "Lori" Moscow region, 55 km on Simferopol highway. The mode of work: Tuesday - Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, Monday - a day off. rub. (May - September), 160 rubles. (October-April); for schoolchildren - 165 rubles / 125 rubles; for children under 7 years - free. Anton Chekhov bought Melikhovo in 1892 on an ad in the newspaper for 13 thousand rubles. And in 1899 he had acute tuberculosis, and he had to sell his favorite estate and move to Yalta. In Melikhovo writer created 42 works: plays "Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya", stories "Man in a case", "Ionich", "House with a mezzanine", "My life", "Gooseberries", "About Love", the novel " Chamber No. 6 ", an essay" Sakhalin Island ", etc. Here he was engaged and medical practice - as a Zemsky doctor received peasants from neighboring villages for free. Now the museum-preserve includes the Chekhovs' manor house, the exposition of the medical outpost Ambulatoria, the old park and the garden (at one time the writer with great enthusiasm landscaped the estate: planted trees, grew vegetables), the pond Aquarium, the garden South of France, outbuilding. Two schools and a house-wing, built by the writer, in which he preferred to work were preserved. For children in Melikhovo, interactive classes and literary master classes are arranged, and every Saturday from 12 to 15 hours shows performances of the local theater Chekhov Studio. On the territory of the estate there is a cafe where you can have a snack. And next to it - a guest house, a double room costs 2000 rubles per day.

4. Spasskoe-Lutovinovo

A photo: Sergey Chayko / "Lori" photobank Orlovskaya oblast, 310 km by Simferopolskoe shosse.Vremya work: daily from 9:00 to 18:00 hours. Prices: ticket for the territory - 80 rubles., For children under 16 years - free of charge; excursion around the manor and exhibition center (or literary exposition): adults - 360 rubles, students - 250 rubles, preschoolers - free of charge. "Spasskoe-Lutovinovo" is the only memorial museum of Ivan Turgenev in Russia. The family estate of the writer Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova's mother in Orel province was donated to her family in the 16th century by Tsar Ivan the Terrible. On the territory there is a temple of the Transfiguration of the Savior (founded in 1779), an outbuilding and an old park, broken here at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries. This park with its cozy gazebos, lime avenues, mighty poplars, oaks, spruce trees Turgenev described in his works "Rudin", "The Noble Nest", "Faust", "Fathers and Sons", "On the Eve", "Ghosts", "Nov ". For schoolchildren, you can participate in intellectual quizzes on the biography and creativity of the writer. After a tour of the estate, you can eat pies in the museum cafeteria and drink a milkshake with ice cream.

5. Yasnaya Polyana

A photo: Igor Nizov / Photobank "Lori" Tula region, 200 km along Simferopolskoe shosse.Vremya work: on the territory of the estate you can walk until 21:00 (April to October); visiting memorial buildings: Tues-Fri - 9: 30-15: 30; Sat, Sun - 9: 30-16: 30; Monday - day off. Price: ticket with excursion (homestead, house, wing) on ​​weekdays for adults - 350 rubles, for schoolchildren - 300 rubles; on weekends and holidays - 400 rubles. for all. Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana was born, grew up and lived more than 50 years. Here was the family nest of the Tolstoy family and his beloved home. And here the descendants of the writer come to this place once a year - there are more than 250 of them and they live in different countries of the world. In Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoy wrote about 200 works, among them "Anna Karenina", "War and Peace" (over the novel-epic worked 10 years), "Resurrection". The scale of the reserve is impressive - 412 hectares. The house-museum is led by a wide birch alley - it is called in the old "Preshekt", on which the writer loved to walk. He broke the gardens in the estate: apple, plum, cherry. Now they are harvesting a large crop of apples. The farmstead lives: there is an own apiary, a stable (you can ride children on horseback), a bird's yard with hens, ducks and geese. The house-museum retains the atmosphere of 1910 - the last in the life of the writer. All things, paintings, books (in the library more than 22,000 copies) belonged to Tolstoy and his ancestors. The writer is buried here, in the woods, on the edge of the ravine. In the café "Preshpekt" (at the entrance to the estate) you will be offered meals cooked according to the recipes of Tolstoy's wife Sofya Andreevna. Great demand for Anchovy pie with apples - the festive dessert of the family. You can stay at the hotel "Yasnaya Polyana", before it is 1.5 km from the museum. Double room (parents and child) costs from 4000 rubles. Also interesting:

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