Museum-Reserve 'Muranovo Estate' named after F.I. Tyutchev

About museum

The Muranovo estate-museum named after F. I. Tyutchev is a unique monument of Russian noble culture of the 19th to early 20th centuries. In the past it was a medium-sized estate which from 1816 to 1919 was home to the related families Engelgardt, Boratynsky, Putyat and Tyutchev. The main asset of the estate is the house built in 1842 according to drawings by the poet E. A. Boratynsky. It contains a complex of literary, historical and domestic memorials, fine works of art, items of decorative and applied art, old books and priceless archival materials. The museum was opened in 1920 after the death of O. N. Tyutcheva, and in 1924 it was headed by Nikolai Ivanovich Tyutchev, the poet's great-grandson. On the estate grounds there is also the stone Church of the Holy Mandylion (Savior Not Made by Hands), the poet's widow's wing and the mausoleum of N. I. Tyutchev. From 1949 to 1980 the museum's director was Kirill Vasilyevich Pigarev, a leading researcher of Tyutchev's life and work. He supplemented the main family collection with rare items from his own collection.