State Lermontov Museum-Reserve 'Tarkhany'

About museum

\r\nIn 1939 the museum-reserve was established on the ancestral estate of the Arsenyev family — ancestors of M. Y. Lermontov on his mother's side. It occupies an area of 197 ha. The museum's collection comprises more than 29,000 exhibits. The museum-reserve consists of three complexes. The first includes the former manor house, the Church of Mary of Egypt, a restored peasant hut, the steward's house, the mill and the miller's house, the reserve park, three orchards, the Oak Grove, ponds, a greenhouse, stables, pavilions and the place of M. Y. Lermontov's childhood games. The second complex consists of the family necropolis of the Arsenyev–Lermontov family with a chapel where the ashes of M. Y. Lermontov rest, the grave of his father, the village Church of Archangel Michael and the gatekeeper's lodge. The third complex is located three kilometers from Tarkhany and is called 'the dear aunt's estate' — M. A. Shan-Girey Apalikha.