Literary Museum of M. Y. Lermontov, village Paraboch

About museum

In the 1960s–1980s many republican publications mentioned the Khastatov house in the village of Paraboch. Khastatov served in the Russian army and was married to Ekaterina Alekseevna Stolypina. They called their estate 'Earthly Paradise' because of the magnificence of the surrounding nature. In 1818 Elizaveta Alekseevna Arsenyeva came to this estate for the first time with her grandson Misha Lermontov. In 1964, on the 150th anniversary of M. Y. Lermontov's birth, a memorial plaque was installed commemorating his stays at the Khastatov estate in 1818, 1837 and 1840. In 1987 the former Khastatov estate was declared a monument of history and culture by a decree of the Council of Ministers of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. In 1837 Lermontov was ordered to go to the Caucasus because of the poem 'The Death of the Poet'. In 2004 a decision was made to create the M. Y. Lermontov Literary Museum, and its official opening took place in 2006. In 2009 the museum building was restored with the support of the A. A. Kadyrov Regional Public Foundation.