Historical and architectural complex 'Teremok'

About museum

Eighteen kilometers south of Smolensk is the former Tenishev estate — Talashkino. In the 19th–20th centuries this place became known thanks to the patron, collector and artist Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva, who turned it into an art center of European renown. Ivan Egorovich Repin, Maximilian Alexandrovich Vrubel, composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky worked here, and Fyodor Chaliapin visited Talashkino. Nikolai Roerich left his famous monumental work — the mosaic "The Saviour Not Made by Hands." You can also see the famous little house "Teremok" — a log structure designed by Sergey Malyutin. It displays items from the Talashkino workshops and works by people who brought fame to Talashkino. In the building of the former agricultural school there is an exhibition dedicated to the school for peasant children opened by Princess M. K. Tenisheva in 1894. It shows objects of school life, textbooks, photographs, lists of pupils and much more.