How to spend your autumn holidays 2017 profitably

Nizhny Novgorod region, 490 km along the Gorky highway.

Run time: Tuesday – Sunday from 9:00 to 17:00, Monday – closed.

Price: a tour of the house-museum and the estate lasts 1,5 hours (adult ticket – 300 rubles, for schoolchildren, students and pensioners – 200 rubles, preschoolers – free).

The family estate of Alexander Pushkin is located near the village of Diveyevo, Nizhny Novgorod region. It was here in the autumn months of 1830 and 1833 that the poet experienced the highest creative take-off in his life, writing Little Tragedies, Belkin’s Tales, A House in Kolomna, the last chapters of Eugene Onegin, The Bronze Horseman, The Queen of Spades », Fairy tales and lyric poems. The spirit of that era is alive here to this day: the manor house and the manor park with a system of cascading ponds have been preserved in their original form, and the furnishings of the rooms where the poet lived has been recreated on a documentary basis. Visitors to the estate can also take pictures in costumes from the Pushkin era and ride a phaeton.

A few kilometers from the manor house is the Luchinnik grove – the poet’s favorite riding place. A spring with clean spring water has been preserved here, which the great poet loved to refresh himself in the summer heat.

It is better to come to Boldino in autumn, when flying cobwebs and fiery foliage of trees reproduce the atmosphere of the famous poetic time. If you wish, you can stay at the hotel of the same name, located within walking distance from the Pushkin Museum-Estate. Price – from 850 to 4500 rubles. depending on the number.

Ryazan region, 196 km along the Ryazan highway.

Run time: Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, Monday – closed.

Price: a single entrance ticket for 5 expositions – for adults on weekdays – 300 rubles, on weekends and holidays – 350 rubles, for children under 16 years old – free of charge.

The homeland of the “last poet of the village” Sergei Yesenin is located on the high bank of the Oka River, from where a breathtaking view opens up. In the center of the village there is a modest “estate” of the Yesenins, a low village hut. It contains a stove, peasant utensils, a wooden bed with a patchwork quilt, the famous “shabby shushun” of the poet’s mother, family photographs on the walls. The old church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is visible from the window of the house. Also on the territory of the museum-reserve there is a school where Sergei studied, the priest Smirnov’s house (he married the poet’s parents and baptized him), the mansion of Lydia Kashina (Yesenin was friends with her, she became the prototype of the heroine in the poem “Anna Snegina”), a literary museum memory of the poet.

In the local “Tea Room” you will be treated to a peasant dinner of the early twentieth century and “treats to grandmother Tanya,” Yesenin’s mother. You can spend the night right there, in the guest house. On weekdays (from 12:00 Mon to 12:00 Fri), accommodation for one person in a double room costs 600 rubles / day, on weekends (from 12:00 Fri to 12:00 Mon) – 800 rubles / day.

Moscow region, 55 km along the Simferopol highway.

Hours of operation: Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00, Monday – day off.

Price: 1,5-hour guided tour of the estate – 200 rubles for adults. (May – September), 160 rubles. (October – April); for schoolchildren – 165 rubles / 125 rubles; for children under 7 years old – free.

Anton Chekhov bought Melikhovo in 1892 at an advertisement in a newspaper for 13 thousand rubles. And in 1899, his tuberculosis worsened, and he was forced to sell his beloved estate and move to Yalta. In Melikhovo, the writer created 42 works: the plays “The Seagull” and “Uncle Vanya”, the stories “A Man in a Case”, “Ionych”, “House with a Mezzanine”, “My Life”, “Gooseberry”, “About Love”, the story ” Ward No. 6 ”, the essay“ Sakhalin Island ”, etc. Here he was also engaged in medical practice – as a zemstvo doctor, he received peasants from neighboring villages for free. Now the museum-reserve includes the Chekhovs’ manor house, the exposition of the Ambulatory medical center, the old park and garden (at one time the writer was very enthusiastic about landscaping the estate: he planted trees, grew vegetables), the Aquarium pond, the South of France vegetable garden, wing kitchen. Two schools built by the writer and an outbuilding, in which he preferred to work, have survived.

For children in Melikhovo, interactive classes and literary master classes are arranged, and every Saturday from 12 to 15 o’clock performances of the local theater “Chekhov’s Studio” are shown. On the territory of the estate there is a cafe where you can have a snack. And next to it is a guest house, a double room costs 2000 rubles a day.

Orel region, 310 km along the Simferopol highway.

Run time: daily from 9:00 to 18:00 hours.

Price: a ticket to the territory – 80 rubles, for children under 16 years old – free; excursion around the estate and the exhibition center (or literary exposition): adults – 360 rubles, students – 250 rubles, preschoolers – free.

Spasskoye-Lutovinovo is the only memorial museum of Ivan Turgenev in Russia. The family estate of the writer’s mother Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova in the Oryol province was presented to her family in the 1779th century by Tsar Ivan the Terrible. On the territory there is the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior (founded in XNUMX), an outbuilding and an old park, laid out here at the turn of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries. Turgenev described this park with its cozy gazebos, linden alleys, mighty poplars, oaks, firs in his works “Rudin”, “Noble Nest”, “Faust”, “Fathers and Sons”, “On the Eve”, “Ghosts”, “New “. Schoolchildren can take part in intellectual quizzes on the knowledge of the biography and creativity of the writer.

After a guided tour of the estate, you can refresh yourself with pies in the museum cafeteria and sip a milkshake with ice cream.

Tula region, 200 km along the Simferopol highway.

Run time: on the territory of the estate you can walk until 21:00 (from April to October); visiting memorial buildings: Tue-Fri – 9: 30-15: 30; Sat, Sun – 9: 30-16: 30; Monday is a day off.

Price: a ticket with a guided tour (farmstead, house, wing) on ​​weekdays for adults – 350 rubles, for schoolchildren – 300 rubles; on weekends and holidays – 400 rubles. for all.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana was born, raised and lived for more than 50 years. There was a family nest of the Tolstoy family and his beloved home. And the descendants of the writer still come here once a year – there are more than 250 of them and they live in different countries of the world. In Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy wrote about 200 works, among them “Anna Karenina”, “War and Peace” (he worked on the epic novel for 10 years), “Resurrection”. The scale of the reserve is impressive – 412 hectares. A wide birch alley leads to the house-museum – it is called in the old way “Preshpekt”, the writer loved to walk along it. He laid out orchards on the estate: apple, plum, cherry. Now a big harvest of apples is being harvested here. The estate lives: it has its own apiary, a stable (you can ride the children on horseback), a poultry yard with chickens, ducks and geese. The house-museum has preserved the furnishings of 1910 – the last in the life of the writer. All things, paintings, books (there are over 22 copies in the library) belonged to Tolstoy and his ancestors. The writer was buried here, in the forest, on the edge of the ravine.

In the cafe “Preshpekt” (at the entrance to the estate) you will be offered dishes prepared according to the recipes of Tolstoy’s wife Sofia Andreevna. Ankovsky pie with apples, a festive dessert of the family, is in great demand. You can stay at the Yasnaya Polyana hotel, 1,5 km from the museum. Double room (parents and child) costs from 4000 rubles.