Naumovo Manor
Russia, Pskov region, Kunya district
Description:
As you know, on the territory of the Pskov region, there are many former noble estates that are of historical value. One of them is located in Kunya district in the village of Naumovo. This is the museum-estate of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, a family estate once received by his father, as a dowry for the daughter of the Toropetsk landowner and provincial secretary Ivan Chirikov, Julia Chirikova, whom he married. The great composer was born in these places, and here he spent his childhood in the estate of his grandmother.
The very structure of the building is one-storey, with a mezzanine, is an architecture in the style of classicism. On the territory of the estate there is a greenhouse, a guest house for 25 seats, a residential outbuilding for servants, a bath. At the foot of the hill, where the estate is located, there is a beautiful lake. On the south side there is a picturesque park, where the age of the trees reaches 150-200 years, but the most ancient among them is a 300-year-old oak tree, which grows slightly in the side, on a hilltop.
Currently, this place is visited by many tourists, revered the work of the great composer.