Memorial House-Museum of Academician A.M.Opekushin

The memorial house-museum of sculptor A.M. Opekushin is a monument of wooden architecture of the early XX century.

The museum was opened in 1988 in the village of Rybnitsa, Yaroslavl region - in the homeland of the sculptor-academician A.M. Opekushin, who was born in the family of a serf in 1838. Here he died in poverty and oblivion in 1923 and was buried in the local cemetery. Between the two dates is life and creativity. Monuments in Moscow – A.S. Pushkin, Alexander II, Alexander III, Catherine II, M.Y. Lermontov – in Pyatigorsk, K. Bary in Tartu, Muravyov in Khabarovsk, Catherine II in St. Petersburg, etc. The homeland of Opekushina is a historical and cultural region, an original land in the Yaroslavl region. Traditionally, peasant waste workers, going to the city to work, gathered in artels, and some themselves opened sculptural and stucco workshops. Laminate decorative decoration of facades and interiors of palaces, mansions, cathedrals, theaters of Moscow and St. Petersburg was created in these workshops. At the beginning of the XX century. the brother of the sculptor K.M. Opekushin purchased a two-storey house in the village of Rybnitsa for sculptor-stucco classes. This building has been transferred to the museum.