The only museum-estate of Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Darovoe" in the country will open after reconstruction on November 20. According to the information published on the website of the museum complex "Zaraisky Kremlin", it is expected that the grand-niece of the writer Marina Navrazhnykh will take part in the ceremony.
“A multimedia guide has been created here, with the help of which you can find out what role Darovoe played in the writer's work, see household items of an average local estate in the 30s of the 19th century, get acquainted with interesting facts from the life of the Dostoevsky family,” the national tourist portal Russia.travel reports.
The estate museum is located in the Zaraysky district of the Moscow region. The manor wing, where the writer's sister lived, a pond, where there was a bathhouse, and a garden grove have survived to this day.
The estate was bought in 1831 by Dostoevsky's father, Mikhail Andreevich, here Fyodor spent the summer with his brothers and sisters from 1832 to 1836.
Later he described the village of Darovoe in the story "The Peasant Marey". Children's impressions were also reflected in the works "Poor People", "Crime and Punishment", "Demons", "Idiot", "The Brothers Karamazov" and others.