State Lermont Museum-Reserve "Tarkhans"

The museum-reserve was created in 1939 in the family estate of the Arsenyevs, ancestors of M.Y. Lermontov on the maternal line. Its area is 197 hectares. About 29 thousand units of storage are represented in the museum funds. The museum-reserve has three exposition complexes.

The first complex includes: the former manor house, the church of Mary of Egypt, the restored people's hut, the house of the keykeeper, the mill and the miller's house, the reserve park, three orchards, the Oak Grove, ponds, greenhouse, stables, arbors, the place of children's games of M.Y. Lermontov.

The second complex is the family necropolis of the Arsenyevs-Lermontovs with a chapel where the ashes of M.Y. Lermontov rest; the grave of the poet’s father located next to the chapel, the rural church of Mikhail Archangel and the gatehouse.

The third complex is “the possession of a lovely aunt” M.A. Shang-Girei Apaliha, located three kilometers from Tarkhan.