M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum

About museum

The Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin Museum is located in the Taldom urban district of Moscow Region, on the writer's native land. It is housed in the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior, where Mikhail Evgrafovich himself was baptized. The museum's exhibition resonates with the author's last novel 'Poshekhonskaya Starina'. Guided tours are also conducted of the family cemetery and the estate grounds, where an old park, a cascade of ponds and the holy spring 'Iordanka' have been preserved. The main exhibition is devoted to the writer's childhood years spent in the village of Spas-Ugol. During a tour visitors can learn about the genealogy of the Saltykov nobility, the history of the Spas-Ugol family estate, and legends about 19th-century landlord life. Guides tell about the future writer's childhood, his upbringing and education, and family relationships. The museum's displays include peasant household items that help to explain the peasants' position in the estate life of the Saltykovs.