Memorial House-Museum of I.I. Levitan

The house-museum of the great Russian landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan is one of the most popular museums on the Volga, opened on August 25, 1972 in a house that belonged to the merchant Solodovnikov before the revolution.

In this house, the artist lived and worked in the summer of 1888 - 1889 together with his friends-artists Alexei Stepanovich Stepanov and Sofia Petrovna Kuvshinnikova.
Traveling along the Volga in search of strong artistic impressions, Levitan unexpectedly discovered the beauty of a small, quiet town, which inspired the artist to create such masterpieces of Russian landscape painting as “The Quiet Monastery”, “After the Rain”. Ples, "Evening. Golden Mold," "Birch Grove," "Fresh Wind. Volga," "Above Eternal Peace."

Famous for Levitan’s brush, Ples attracted many other artists. Here lived and worked the famous battler V.V. Vereshchagin, worked A.M. Korin, V.M. Baksheev, S.A. Vinogradov, A.V. Makovsky, the passage was I.E. Repin. The Levitan Museum has two exhibition halls. The materials of the first introduce the creative biography of the artist, the second contains the original works of I.I. Levitan, A.S. Stepanov, S.P. Kuvshinnikova. Upstairs, in the mezzanine, the memorial room where I.I. Levitan, A.S. Stepanov, S.P. Kuvshinnikova lived.