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Konstantinovo - the native land of the greatest poet of Russia Sergey Esenin!

Yesenin in general and the village of Konstantinovo in particular are the main hits of the Ryazan Region, which are several times superior in popularity to the Kyritsy of architect Schechtel, and the home of academician Pavlov, and even the horses in Starozhilovo.

Konstantinovo is already presented in advance by a pseudo-Russian village with birches, huts and other matryoshka dolls. However, everything is much more interesting. Even those who heard about Yesenin, but did not read, should come here. In general, you can take excursions to Konstantinovo to get acquainted with exemplary Russian village.

The Ryazan region is already surprised by the good quality and well-groomedness of its villages: here, if anything, it falls apart, it is exclusively pre-revolutionary uninhabited. But Konstantinovo stands out even against the background of Ryazan prosperity - this is what it means when the village has a breadwinner (Pushkin performs the same function for Pushgor and Mikhailovsky). Even outside the large museum-preserved area Konstantinovsky houses are strong, the gardens are good, small blond Esenins rush in the streets of the village, horses are grazing peacefully, and nature is fully consistent with the ideas of Russian expanses.

Skepticism about Konstantinov begins to evaporate at the first glance at the village. It is still not clear where the Esenin house itself is, but the magic of the place is already in effect. The domes of the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God pierce the sky, birches rustle, there is a large wooden house on the lawn in the middle of the village - ancient logs, a neat green roof - but this building of the former Zemstvo school cameras.

The Yesenin House Museum is so clean and tidy that it causes suspicion of unauthenticity, despite the “passport” - a marble plaque “It was born and lived here ...”. Everything around is so Yesenin, that the three-meter bronze Yesenin next to his own house looks like the only inappropriate detail - however, everyone is taking pictures in an embrace with the monument, “Yesenin is on the left, I am on the right”. Behind the house-museum there is a long narrow section with neat outbuildings, neat paths, wattle plants, bushes ... In search of authenticity, you should look through the fence in the neighboring garden: shaggy apple trees, overgrown plums, rickety barn, grass waist, beauty!

In general, the house-museum of Yesenin is almost the most uninteresting part of the Yesenin village. Before we are showered with slippers, - proof: of the authentic buildings, only a nondescript barn in the depth of the site has been preserved, all the rest is reconstruction. Not objects, but the spirit of the place is not to be found here. From the Esenins' house - right, past the house of the priest Smirnov (nice reconstruction), past the Kazan Church (authentic, XVIII century, the architect is famous Ivan Starov, the customer is the owner of the village, Prince Alexander Golitsyn) to a small chapel on the high bank of the Oka. From here there are such species, on which dozens of “poets of the Russian village” could grow (it is very strange that they no longer grow). Huge sky; forests that go beyond the horizon; Oka's powerful bend - in such landscapes almost all the classic Russian poetry has grown. Again I recall Pushkin and Mikhailovskoye, a view of the Soroti bend from a manor house on a high bank. Thoughts of the immensity of the Russian world and that only a poet can express it come to mind, and an ordinary person just takes a breath.

From the shore, an alley to the left of the church leads to the museum of the poem “Anna Snegina” (the manor house of L.I. Kashina) - with a turret and a veranda, with a viburnum and apple trees in an overgrown garden. Further “infrastructure”: the administration building, businesswomen in sundresses and kokoshniks from the local interactive program, asphalt grounds for celebrations, cafes, restaurants, toilets ... But the recent view of the Oka does not let go, I want to return to the steep coast, buy a plot here land and take root.

Which, by the way, many people do: the number of rich cottages around Konstantinovo is steadily increasing. In Russia, museums-reserves, as is known, act on developers simply magnetically.

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