Yesenin State Museum-Reserve in the village of Konstantinovo
Konstantinovo village stands on a high bank of the Oka river, in 43 km from Ryazan. In a large house in the center of the village, opposite to the Church, on October 3 1895 the great Russian poet Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin was born. Here he spent his childhood. Memorial Museum-estate of Sergey Yesenin is one of the most popular literary museums in Russia. Here are held meetings, literary evenings, theatre performances, country fairs and folk festivals. State reserve Museum of Sergey Yesenin is unique natural landscape complex, reflecting the years of childhood, adolescence and early adulthood of the poet (1910 - 1918) Yesenin in Konstantinovo. The area of the entire Museum - 14 hectare. Main attractions:
In addition, the historic environment is preserved 14 estates, the owners of which were relatives of the poet, peers, classmates, fellow villagers. Immediately after the poet's death in 1925, admirers of the poet began to come in the village of Konstantinovo. They were met by the mother of Yesenin In poet's house. It so happened that the village of Konstantinovo has become a meeting place for lovers of Russian poetry. 2 October 1965, was opened the Memorial house-Museum of S. A. Esenin. Initially, the house-Museum had the status of a branch of the Ryazan local history Museum, but was soon renamed the literary-memorial Museum of S. A. Esenin. Over the years the Museum has become one of the largest Museum complexes. A large two-story house, where Yesenin was born, was built in 1871 by his grandfather, Nikita Osipovich Yesenin. It burned down in 1909, and in 1910, here the poet's father built a smaller house. Exhibition in the house restores the interior of the peasant house of that time. The house is surrounded by a garden, in which there are preserved the temporary house where the family of the poet lived after the fire that destroyed the house. In front of the house there is a poplar, planted by Sergei Yesenin in 1924. The Museum of a poem "Anna Snegina" is in the manor house, which belonged to the prototype of the main heroine of the poem – the lady of the House Lydia Ivanovna Cascina. The building belongs to the XIX century and is a classic "house with the mezzanine": |