House-Museum of P.P. Bazhov in Syserty

Our next trip took place in the small town of Sysert, located 40 kilometers south of Yekaterinburg. This is an old, typical Ural city. Fame brought him that here was born the Ural writer Pavel Petrovich Bazhov, author of the famous book of fairy tales “Malachite box”.

The house-museum of P.P. Bazhov is the estate of his parents, father Pyotr Vasilyevich Bazhov and mother Augusta Stepanovna. Here in Syserti on January 15, 1879, Pavel Petrovich was born. Up to a year he lived in Syserti, then up to five years - in the Seversky factory. From 6 to 11 - again in Syserti, then in the Pole plant - from 11 to 14, and from 14 to 17 - in Vershinka (Verkh-Sysert plant). All these places were the factories of the owner Turchaninov (those who read the Bazhov tales know this name).

The family often moved because of the difficult nature of his father, who knew how to ridicule and criticize the authorities. His father worked as a master in welding, for his sharp tongue received the nickname “drill”. For "rebellion" he was transferred from factory to factory - "ventilated".

The estate belonged to his father, Pyotr Vasilyevich, he bought a house for his family. Here the future writer spent his childhood years, here live the heroes of the autobiographical story "Green Mare" - Petsha, Kolsha and Yegorsha.

The Bazhovs lived in abundance. The manor on the street. Shipovka (now Volodarsky Street) included a large house with 6 windows along the street, outbuildings: bath, stable, barns, importation, outbuilding. In this wing there is now a museum.

In 1897, a large house burned down - the Bazhovs were then "ventilated" in Polevsky, and Pavel studied at the spiritual school in Yekaterinburg. Parents returned from Polevsky already to the fire, but to restore a large house did not begin, and settled in the wing - malukh, as they say in the Urals. After the death of his father, one mother lived there until 1906 - then P.P. Bazhov took her to Yekaterinburg, and the estate was sold.

Until 1979, the estate was in private ownership, but all outbuildings remained. It was decided to restore the wing and open the museum of P.P. Bazhov.

All the buildings of the estate are connected by a continuous roof on three sides, and on the fourth courtyard closes the fence with gates: large for horses and small for people.

The roofs are covered with iron made at Sysert factories, and on top are painted with paint prepared on the basis of malachite powder.

It is very interesting how the courtyard was paved with huge stone slabs. The size of the plates testified to the prosperity of the owner. Plates were made in the quarry in three seasons: they broke off blocks in the quarry, processed and drove through the snow in winter.

We’ll see the building later, and now we’re going to the house.

There's beef in the halls. A groove is a wooden arc with notches or hooks at the ends for carrying buckets. Our old people used to say that a man has strength as long as he can carry water in buckets on a horse. The boy was considered a boy when he began to wear water in this way. Wearing water on a horse is a ritual. When you go for water, two empty buckets should be in the left hand, and the bucket itself - in the right.

The hallway, but on the hanger - you can not immediately guess what it is. This is a wooden briefcase with which Pasha Bazhov went to the cifer school. Citer school is a school with a mathematical bias.

The general view of the kitchen, or as it was called, "kut" - a cut corner - a place of cooking at the stove. The situation is the simplest: a shop, a narrow table in which dishes were stored, a stall with a homespun tablecloth, crunches, an everyday samovar, a shelf for dishes, an oven. Now the details. The mesh is a metal tool with a wooden handle for cutting vegetables, mushrooms, meat in the trough. A sieve is a frequent sieve in which they sow, wipe. Bows or lashes - a small hand basket of lubric or rods for berries, mushrooms. Big ones are parents, small ones are Pasha Bazhov. On the shelf of dishes copper, birch bark, clay - the work of Sysert masters.