Polybino Manor

The estate of Polybino, located in Pskov, is a special place. There and now there is a beautiful manor house, as well as an outbuilding, built in the distant nineteenth century. The estate once belonged to Korvin-Krukovsky, survived by a miracle, still pleases curious tourists.

In 1858, the Krukovsky family moved to the estate of Polybino with their daughters Anna and Sophia, son Fedor. After marriage, Sophia leaves. The estate goes to her younger brother. From the eighties to the revolution, the owners of the estate changed. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a children's labor colony, and then an orphanage. After all this, a museum dedicated to Sophia Kovalevskaya, a great woman mathematician, is created in the estate. The museum presents various documents and personal belongings, letters, furniture.

The museum tells the biography of this famous woman, and shows the life of nobles of the nineteenth century.