The "Dacha Tsaritsyno" Exhibition

About exhibition

The Third Cavalry Corps is one of the minor structures of the palace complex, built in 1776–1779 to a design by architect Vasily Bazhenov. In the second half of the 19th century the corps was converted into a dacha; until 1918 a large family of the prominent industrialist and philanthropist Ivan Davidov spent their summers here. In the 19th century Tsaritsyno was a very popular dacha destination. Among Tsaritsyno’s dacha owners and their guests were many well-known and distinguished people. The dacha of the inventor Dmitry Ezhuchevsky was located here (Anton Chekhov planned to buy the house in 1904). The dacha of the chairman of the 1st State Duma, Sergey Muromtsev, occupied as many as six plots. His niece, Vera Muromtseva, later became the wife of Ivan Bunin; they met in Tsaritsyno. Visitors included the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, poets Fyodor Tyutchev and Alexey Pleshcheyev, writers Leonid Andreyev and Andrey Bely, composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, singer Leonid Sobinov, painters Konstantin Korovin, Stanislav Zhukovsky and others. "Dacha Tsaritsyno" is an exhibition that the museum-reserve prepared for more than 10 years. Researchers traced descendants of the Tsaritsyno dacha owners and negotiated the transfer of documentary materials to the museum — negatives, photographic prints, diaries and household items. 320 unique exhibits are complemented by over 200 photographs.