Tarkhany ( rus, Тарха́ны, p=tɐˈrxanɨ) is a Writer's house museum on the Russian estate where the Romantic writer

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romanticism, Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called ...

(1814–1841) spent his childhood and was buried. The late 18th Century–early 19th Century estate is located in the village of Lermontovo (formerly Tarkhany) in the Belinsky District of

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Buildings

*Manor house *Church of St. Mary of Egypt *The Human cottage (restored) *Steward's house (restored) *Arseniev Crypt and chapel *Countryside Church of the Archangel Michael *Lodge

The estate today

The estate is now the State Lermontov Museum — Tarkhany Reserve, created in 1939. It has an area of 485.3 acres. The museum register lists about 29,000 items, including 14,500 fixed assets. In the Steward's House, videos devoted to an atmosphere in which Lermontov lived as a child and scenes from Russian folk life are shown, as well as video expositions on two of his works - his poems ''

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'' and '' A Song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevish, the Young Oprichnik, and the Valorous Merchant Kalashnikov'' (dedicated to the times of Ivan the Terrible). Traditionally on the first weekend in July a Lermontov festival is held in Tarkhany, attended by prominent figures of Russian culture. During the festival special buses are run from Penza. An estate which was the childhood home of Vissarion Belinsky is located southwest of Lermontovo, in the town of Belinsky.

External links

Worldwalk page on Church of St. Mary of Egypt (Tarkhany)

Official website of the Tarkhany Russian State Museum

Virtual tour of the estate

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