Museum-Estate of People's Artist of the USSR A.M. Gerasimov, Michurinsk

About museum

The museum complex has very well preserved the appearance of a late 19th-century urban merchant's estate. The house, built in 1886 by the artist's father, Mikhail Safronovich Gerasimov, was the setting for the artist's childhood and youth. After the 1918 revolution, Gerasimov lived here with his family until 1925. It was here that the landscape "After the Rain. Wet Terrace" was painted, which for a long time was used in Russian language textbooks. In the estate's courtyard you can see outbuildings, including a carriage house, cellar and barn. The workshop where more than one hundred works by Alexander Gerasimov were created is also located here. In 1981 an exhibition hall was built in the estate's courtyard, where you can see the largest collection of the artist's works in Russia.