Literary Museum "Abakumtsevo"

The Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve is located 60 km north-east of Moscow, near Sergiev Posad.

In 1843 Abramtsevo was acquired by the writer S.T. Aksakov, who created his best works here. Under Aksakov, the estate was visited by writers N.V. Gogol and I.S. Turgenev, historian M.P. Pogodin, actor M.S. Shchepkin, other famous contemporaries.

In 1870 Abramtsevo was bought by railway industrialist, artistic and theatrical figure S.I. Mamontov. Under Mamontov, V.D. Polenov, V.M. Vasnetsov, I.E. Repin, I.S. Ostroukhov, V.A. Serov, K.A. Korovin, M.V. Nesterov, M.A. Vrubel and other artists, musicians, actors visited Abramtsev. The creative community of these masters entered the history of art as the Abramtsevo art circle.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the estate was nationalized and turned into a museum, but the artistic traditions of the Mamontov circle were not interrupted. In the XX century in Abramtsevo lived and worked artists I.E. Grabar, P.P. Konchalovsky, I.I. Mashkov, sculptors V.I. Mukhina, B.D. Korolev and many other representatives of creative professions.

Nowadays, the territory of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve occupies about 50 hectares and includes architectural monuments of the XVIII and XIX centuries, a park and picturesque surroundings of the Vori River. The collection of the museum-reserve contains more than 25 thousand exhibits: paintings, graphics, sculpture, works of decorative, applied and folk art, as well as photographs and archives of the former owners of the estate.