Mikhaylovskoye Museum-Estate

About museum

Mikhaylovskoye Museum-Estate is the ancestral estate of the Gannibal–Pushkin family, which was for A. S. Pushkin a place of tranquility, work and inspiration. It was built at the end of the 18th century by the poet's grandfather O. A. Gannibal. After his death the estate passed into the ownership of the poet's mother N. O. Pushkina. For two years A. S. Pushkin frequently visited here during the summer months. It was during this time that Pushkin's poetic genius matured and the first Russian national poet came into being; among the works written there were the tragedy "Boris Godunov", the central chapters of the novel "Eugene Onegin", the poem "The Count Nulin", the poems "The Prophet", "André Chénier", "October 19", "Desire for Glory", "Conversation of a Bookseller with a Poet" and other verses. The estate comprises the manor house, four manor wings and an 18th-century park, as well as a museum-estate dedicated to A. S. Pushkin where items belonging to the poet and his family can be seen.