Museum-estate of M. P. Mussorgsky description and photo - Russia - North-West: Pskov region (Topic)

Museum-estate of MP Mussorgsky description and photo - Russia - North-West: Pskov region. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The famous Musorgsky M.P. is the only museum in the world dedicated to the famous composer. The homeland of the greatest Russian composer Mussorgsky Modest Petrovich became the villages of Naumovo and Karevo, which are located on the northern shore of the lake called Zhizhitskoye.

The family estate of the Chirikovs (ancestors of Mussorgsky MP on my mother's side, Chirikova Yu.I.) is the estate Naumovo. It was this village that became the center of a vast museum complex, which is united by the villages of Poshivkino and Karelovo. All childhood impressions of the young Modest, associated with village life, were reflected in his musical works describing the hopeless and hard life of ordinary people.

The historical development of the Naumov estate dates back to the 17th century. Small village Naumovo, which has been in the possession of the Chirikov family since 1653, for almost a century and a half it passed by inheritance to the representatives of this kind of nobility. It is worth considering that only in the first half of the 19th century, the second owner of the estate became one of the representatives of the Musorgsky family, namely Peter Alekseevich, who in the future became the father of the great composer. Pyotr Alekseevich, by the time he took full possession of the estate, had already served in the Senate as a clerk from 1814 to 1822, and in 1828 married the daughter of Ivan Chirikov's neighbor, Yulia Ivanovna. As a dowry for the wedding, a small village of Naumovskoye was donated, as well as 28 peasant souls.

As for the architectural component of the plan, the estate is a kind of combination belonging to different periods of time, but still subordinate to a single structure of buildings. In addition to the main manor house, as well as the outbuilding, the Musorgsky Museum owns a barn, a human, a barn, a dairy, a greenhouse and a smithy. It is in this place that various and long-tradition musical festivals are held, which are dedicated to the composer.

The estate is located on an elevated area of a small gentle hill, smoothly descending to the lake. This slope has a beautiful orchard. On the territory of the estate from the south there is a park in which the age of trees reaches 150-200 years. This park is related to the type of English, artificially made in a romantic style parks, equipped with shady alleys, as well as intricate linden pavilions with a small pond, flower beds and ornamental shrubs. Border, passing from the side of the garden and separating it from the estate, it is quite clearly marked with several plantings of several rows of fir trees.

Not far from the estate and next to the park, on a small elevation, an ancient oak grows, whose age reaches three hundred years. The estate has two ponds, one of which is oval. Another is equipped with an island and is located on the eastern side of the park. The manor house is one-storey and equipped with a mezzanine. The architecture of the house is strictly maintained in the style of late classicism. Next to the upper pond there is a small wooden building, which is intended for domestic use. In the central part of the park there is a residential wing and a greenhouse.

The very first museum exposition was devoted to the life and work of Modest Petrovich, which was opened in 1972 in the manor outbuilding in the village of Naumovo. During the period from 1973 to 1979, restoration and repair work was carried out in the external and internal decoration of the house. Throughout 1975, a major overhaul was carried out in the dairy, which also hosted an exposition entitled “People's Life of the 19th Century”. In 1976 the barn was repaired, and the restoration work in the human room was completed by 1984.

The famous monument to M.P. Musorgsky. was erected on a hill in the village of Karevo on the site of the previously existing house in which the famous composer was born. The erection of the monument was planned for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Modest Petrovich. Dumanyan V.Kh. was the sculptor of this project. The monument dedicated to the composer is made of bronze and is located on a granite pedestal, depicting the full-length figure of Mussorgsky, dressed in a developing cape.

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