E. K. Plotnikova Estate House

About museum

E. K. Plotnikova Estate House is an architectural monument of the late 18th to the early 20th century, built in 1794. It originally comprised two stone two-storey houses belonging to two different owners. In 1894 one of them was acquired by Pavla Mikhailovna Shingareva, who began remodeling the houses into a single structure. At the beginning of the 20th century it passed to Ekaterina Kirillovna Plotnikova. After nationalization the building was assigned to Soviet institutions, and since 1994 it has been part of the State Museum Association 'Artistic Culture of the Russian North'. It hosts exhibitions dedicated to urban artistic culture and the life of old Arkhangelsk, as well as exhibitions of Russian art from the 18th to the early 20th century, featuring works by Karl Bryullov, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Fyodor Rokotov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Alexei Venetsianov, Karl Lemokh, Ivan Kramskoi, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov and other artists. In the manor house's halls visitors can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of bygone beauty.