Museum-Reserve of M.P.Musorgsky

The world’s only state memorial museum-estate of the great Russian composer M.P. Mussorgsky was created on the initiative of the director of the Zhizhitsk school A.I. Kachkov, with the support of the Union of Composers of the USSR and the Ministry of Culture. The grand opening of the museum took place on June 29, 1968.

In 1970, the memorial museum of M.P. Mussorgsky was included in the Pskov Museum-Reserve as a branch. The museum funds contain items of noble life from the families of close relatives and friends of the composer: furniture, dishes, furnishings of the dwelling, an album of family photos, an icon from the church of Odigitria Poshivkino, whose parishioners were Mussorgsky’s parents.

Museum-estate of M.P. Mussorgsky is located on the shore of the picturesque Zhizhitsky lake. The ensemble of the memorial museum includes the Naumovo estate with a park, the Karevo estate, the Posivkino parish, the monument to M.P. Mussorgsky. Here you can get acquainted with the master's house, built by I.I. Chirikov - the composer's grandfather. In this house, Y.I. Chirikova was born - the mother of M.P. Mussorgsky, he often visited himself. And also with the people's, in which the serfs lived, and with the greenhouse, the brick building of which was built in the XIX century.

At present, the following expositions are functioning in the Museum of M.P. Mussorgsky:

• "Life and work of M.P. Mussorgsky" (main house);
• “The production of M.P. Mussorgsky’s operas” (fligel);
• "The life of peasants of the XIX century" (human);
• The Winter Garden.