Museum-reserve of the writer S.T. Aksakov

In the valley between the picturesque mountains stretches the ancient village of Aksakovo, founded by the writer's grandfather in the 60s of the XVIII century - Stepan Mikhailovich Aksakov (Bagrov). The estate of the Aksakovs has preserved a manor park with a two-hundred-year-old lime alley, old single pines-healers, girlfriends-vells, located on the shore of the round Lake of Love in the park, which is also more than two hundred years old, the Buguruslan River, a pond with the Chelyaevskaya Mountain. All those eyewitnesses of history who remember how they lived, loved, dreamed of four generations of the Aksakov family.

On the territory of the estate, yard outbuildings, outbuildings, cellars with cellars were preserved. On the site of the preserved lower foundation, the Aksakov house was restored in 1998 - a one-storey one, made of thick pine logs, with two front porches and a rotunda gazebo from the park. The house is divided by a corridor into two suites. Here the patriarchal life of the provincial landowners is recreated. Among the exhibits of the house-museum are carefully stored authentic Aksakov things and things of that period of time: furniture of the XVIII-XIX century, dishes of Gardner and Kuznetsov, photographs, documents, books of S.T. Aksakov of different years.

The exposition reflects the pages of the writer’s life: childhood, adolescence, the first years of family life, the birth of his children in the grandfather’s house – Constantine, Vera, Olga, Gregory. Also, a block of materials telling about the descendants of S.T. Aksakov on the main line is the daughter of Grigory Olya, to whom his grandfather dedicated the fairy tale “Scarlet Flower”, and his son Sergey Grigoryevich, the only successor of the famous family name.