P. D. Korin House-Museum

About museum

\r\n1974 was a notable year for Palekh — the P. D. Korin House-Museum opened here — the home of the famous People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, and an Academician of Painting. He was renowned as an outstanding portraitist, the author of the triptych 'Alexander Nevsky' and the moving depictions of a 'vanishing Rus'. All items in the museum are original, and the house's walls belong to the oldest wooden building in Palekh, built in the late 1860s — early 1870s by Pavel's grandmother, Anna Timofeevna Talanova. The house consists of two parts: a peasant izba and the urban half, connected by a common corridor. In the summer part of the house, the Korins arranged it in the merchant style, draping it with furniture and works of art. The museum displays a unique collection of icons, iconographic graphics and Western European engravings, as well as works by Pavel Dmitrievich, his father, his brothers and other artists: 'Rowan Branch', 'Palekh Under Construction', 'Landscape with Pines' and others.