Three Pines, Three Stanzas, Three Estates

2023 Author: Ashton Daniels | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-08-25 13:50

Pushkin Reserve is a graceful and fabulous place. Among the stately hills and malachite pines lives the invigorating scent of 19th century culture. It is difficult to imagine these places apart from Alexander Sergeevich. However, the fact remains: these places would be completely different without Pushkin, just as Pushkin would be different without these places

MIKHAILOVSKY

The main magnet of the Pushkin Reserve is Mikhailovskoye, the former family estate of the Hannibals-Pushkins. The old Hannibal house, in which Pushkin lived, has not survived, but restored the way it was during the poet's lifetime. The main museum exposition is concentrated here. Next to the house-museum, to the left of it, there is a wooden wing "nursery house". One half of the house is a bathhouse, the other is the lamp of Arina Rodionovna, the poet's nanny. On the other side of the house there is a kitchen and a kitchen, the house of the manager and the house of the clerk. They exactly repeat their previous appearance. It is pleasant to walk through Mikhailovsky Park among two hundred-year-old fir trees planted by grandfather Hannibal at the end of the 18th century. It is no less flattering to slip and fall by the spruce, over which Anna Kern loved to stumble, along the alley leading to the Hannibal family chapel.

After the walk, we advise you to hurry up to lunch at Trigorskoye, following the footsteps of the poet's horse. 3 km walk: an hour on foot, 30 minutes on horseback or 40 minutes on skis. Along a linden alley, through a chain of lakes to three legendary pines. On the way, you can remember a dozen beautiful moments, meet your inspiration and record the surging love experience (in a word or in a pencil). The heavenly ponds of the park under the thickness of ice keep the secrets of county intrigues. In the summer you can take a dip. In winter, you can freeze.

TRIGORSK

The world of Trigorsky's estate is three epic mountains, the cheerful house of the Osipov-Wulfs and an optimistic, spacious view of life and surroundings. Having embraced three picturesque hills with a gaze, one wants to immediately fulfill the three innermost desires: burrowing into an old book, eating a pheasant or falling in love. (This is what the poet liked to do in the shadow of the Trigorskoye estate).

On a picturesque hill, on the shore of a pond, there is a large wooden house, a former linen factory. That is why there is an abundance of space and rooms: a waltzing hall, two libraries, a dozen rooms in the women's half of the house, several men's offices. A real Russian hospitable, hospitable House!

You cross the threshold and already feel like a welcome guest. N. I. is about to come to the meeting. Wulf, will put him at an oak table, pour tea from a copper samovar, with gooseberry jam. And then you can play a game of chess, drinking it with French champagne from a silver refrigerator.

And yet: all the most secret, intimate is hidden in the depths of a fairly frozen park. Trigorsky Park is a wonderful example of landscape gardening art of the second half of the 18th century. The romantic structure was laid by the first owner of the estate, M. D. Vyndomsky. The orchard divided the front and economic parts of the estate. Opposite the foundations of the old house, there is a wonderful viewpoint - "Onegin's Bench". Next to the bathhouse there is a green gazebo surrounded by old lime trees from the 18th century. Descending down the stairs leads to the pool. At the exit from the bathhouse, the restored cascade of 3 ponds is clearly visible. The walking ring of paths is also clearly visible, which was designed for a consistent change of impressions and landscapes during walks. The path from the bathhouse leads to the "Green Hall" - a place for waltzing. Further - the route through the bridge separating the middle pond from the lower one leads to a large linden alley ("Alley-glade"). From the turn from the big alley to the morning walking path, the "Spruce-tent" grows. Then the path leads to the "sundial", one of the most interesting "ideas" of the park. The shadow from the gnomon, set in the center of the turf circle, falls on the "Sentinel" oaks, planted around its perimeter. The sundial also included the "Solitary Oak", to which the midday trail leads. Along Tatiana's Alley we move back to the manor house. After all, it's time for us, we are expected in the main Hannibal estate in Petrovskoye: to drink lingonberry vodka, and ride down the hill. From the turn from the big alley to the morning walking path, the "Spruce-tent" grows. Then the path leads to the "sundial", one of the most interesting "ideas" of the park. The shadow from the gnomon, set in the center of the turf circle, falls on the "Sentinel" oaks, planted around its perimeter. The sundial also included the "Solitary Oak", to which the midday trail leads. Along Tatiana's Alley we move back to the manor house. After all, it's time for us, we are expected in the main Hannibal estate in Petrovskoye: to drink lingonberry vodka, and ride down the hill. From the turn from the big alley to the morning walking path, the "Spruce-tent" grows. Then the path leads to the "sundial", one of the most interesting "ideas" of the park. The shadow from the gnomon, set in the center of the turf circle, falls on the "Sentinel" oaks, planted around its perimeter. The sundial also included the "Solitary Oak", to which the midday trail leads. Along Tatiana's Alley we move back to the manor house. After all, it's time for us, we are expected in the main Hannibal estate in Petrovskoye: to drink lingonberry vodka, and ride down the hill.oak trees planted around its perimeter. The sundial also included the "Solitary Oak", to which the midday trail leads. Along Tatiana's Alley we move back to the manor house. After all, it's time for us, we are expected in the main Hannibal estate in Petrovskoye: to drink lingonberry vodka, and ride down the hill.oak trees planted around its perimeter. The sundial also included the "Solitary Oak", to which the midday trail leads. Along Tatiana's Alley we move back to the manor house. After all, it's time for us, we are expected in the main Hannibal estate in Petrovskoye: to drink lingonberry vodka, and ride down the hill.

PETROVSKY

All three estates, standing on a dais, are watching each other. So, from the gazebo of the Petrovsky park, one can discern the outlines of the Mikhailovskoye estate - "the poet's disgraced house" Looking deeper into the garden a couple of centuries ago, one could spy on grandfather Hannibal, sitting on his favorite stone with a decanter of lingonberry vodka and pickles.

The family estate of the Hannibals was donated in 1742 by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna to Abram Petrovich Hannibal, A. S. Pushkin's great-grandfather. During the civil war in 1918, the estate, like many other noble estates, was burned down. Since June 1977, hospitality has been rewarded here again. The estate has two houses: one from the 18th century - compact, stone; the second is wooden, in the style of 19th century classicism. In an old two-story house, built during the reign of Elizabeth, a stove is heated on the ground floor, and game is cooked. On the second, Abram Petrovich, as usual, draws a "Plan of the Fortifications of Perspectives", his wife reads the alphabet aloud to the children. But soon the family grows, and a decision is made to build a new wooden house with many open windows, through rooms and hospitable doors. You can hide from such openness only in the park, in the phalanx of linden alleys and mini-grottoes.