One of the most interesting architectural monuments that adorn Staraya Basmannaya Street is a mansion at number 23, painted yellow, with a six-column portico, decorated with a corner semicircular rotunda, a triangular pediment and antique-style friezes on both sides of the portico.

In the 18th century, it was the property of the Babushkin merchants, whose name the neighboring Alexander Lukyanov Lane bore until 1964.

In 1795, the daughter of the first guild merchant Peter Babushkin, Alexandra, married the prime minister, Prince Yu.P. Volkonsky, to whom, together with his wife, this property also passed as a dowry. Volkonsky built a wooden mansion here, and a few years later the estate passed to the retired captain Pavel Ivanovich Yakovlev, who rebuilt the house in the style of late classicism. Who is the author of the project of this elegant wooden building on a white stone plinth is not known for certain. For a long time, its construction was attributed to M.F. Kazakov, then to the architect I.D. Zhukov - in any case, it is his signature on the plan of the Yakovlevsky house.

By the way, the mansion has one curious detail - the ceilings in the rooms are of different heights.

For several years, the estate was owned by Countess E.A. Saltykova and Count R.A. Vorontsov. Around 1815, the mansion was acquired by Praskovya Vasilievna Muravyova-Apostol, the wife of a senator, member of the Russian Academy Ivan Matveyevich Muravyov-Apostol. It was in this house that the future Decembrists Ippolit, Sergei and Matvey Muravyov-Apostles lived. This estate is also associated with the name of the poet Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov, who lodged here with the Muravyovs in 1816. Perhaps A.S. Pushkin also visited the house.

In 1822, the Muravyovs sold the estate, the owners changed, and in the 1840s, the Alexander-Mariinsky orphanage was opened here, which belonged to the department of Empress Maria Feodorovna. He was in an old mansion until 1917.

Soon after the revolution, People's Commissar of Education Lunacharsky proposed to open here, by the centenary of the uprising on Senate Square, a museum of the Decembrists. But then the idea was never realized. Instead, communal apartments were arranged in the house. The old mansion was dilapidated and slowly destroyed. Back in 1952, P.V. Sytin wrote that “typical for its time and rare today” Muravyov-Apostol’s house on Staraya Basmannaya “is living its last days.” However, the house survived.

And only in 1986 the museum finally opened in it. But already in August 1991, the ceiling on the main staircase collapsed, and the museum was closed. So Moscow would have lost this most interesting monument, if not for one of the descendants of the Muravyovs-Apostles - a Swiss citizen Christopher Andreevich. He offered to transfer the house to him on a long-term lease with an obligation to restore the mansion. On December 5, 2000, on the 175th anniversary of the Decembrist uprising, a corresponding decree of the Moscow Government was signed. And just a month later, a large-scale scientific and methodological restoration began. Currently, the house receives guests - exhibitions are held here, lectures, book presentations are held.

In 2001, scientific restoration began, which included the restoration of the main house of the estate - as of the period of the first quarter of the 19th century. By the beginning of the work, the house was literally half destroyed (the white-stone plinth of the facade - by 50%, windows, doors, wooden frame, ceilings - by 40%); the ground floor is partly embedded into the ground. Engineering communications had to be completely shifted. After repairing the walls and vaults of the basement, a temporary roof was erected. Then, step by step, the stucco decoration of the facades and interior was dismantled. The general approach was to preserve the original elements to the maximum extent, if not possible, to replace them with similar ones made according to old technologies.
In the course of the work, wallpapers of the late 18th and second half of the 19th centuries were found. The interiors of the ceremonial premises were restored: Venetian plaster, gypsum reliefs, Dutch stoves with glazed monochrome and polychrome tiles, artificial marble of friezes under the cornices and pilaster trunks. When restoring the facades, the approach was similar - to leave as much as possible what was preserved. As a result, one high relief was replaced, one was restored. The same was done with some capitals and columns of the portico. Modern communications were inscribed in the ancient interior.
The territory adjacent to the building has been fully landscaped, and the lost fence with a gate and a gate has been recreated according to historical drawings.

The restoration of the unique mansion on Staraya Basmannaya is a vivid example of the complex scientific restoration of architectural monuments of the capital.

In 2013, the estate became the winner of the competition of the Moscow Government for the best project in the field of preservation and promotion of cultural heritage sites "Moscow Restoration" in the nomination "For the best organization of repair and restoration work."

The yellowish-white mansion at 23/9 Staraya Basmannaya Street truly adorns this area of ​​Moscow. Its classical forms - a six-column portico, a semicircular rotunda located on the corner, "antique" friezes arranged on the facade and a triangular high pediment - the building received at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The history of this house dates back to the 18th century, when the property belonged to the Babushkin merchant family (it was by their last name that the current one was called until 1964).

In 1795, the daughter of the merchant of the 1st guild Peter Babushkin, Alexandra Petrovna, married Prince Yu.P. Volkonsky, who at that time had the rank of prime minister. The estate was also included in the bride's dowry.

Volkonsky immediately erects a wooden mansion on this site, which a couple of years later was bought by Pavel Ivanovich Yakovlev, a retired captain. It was during the latter that the house was rebuilt and given its classic look that has survived to this day.

Unfortunately, the issue of architectural authorship has not yet been resolved. At one time, this wooden structure on a white stone plinth was attributed to Matvey Kazakov, and then, after the discovery of the old building plan, the architect I.D. Zhukov, whose signature was found on this document.

Presumably in 1815, the wife of Senator Ivan Matveyevich Muravyov-Apostol, Praskovya Vasilievna, bought the house at 23 Staraya Basmannaya Street. Further, the history of the house will be connected with the Decembrist movement in Russia. The fact is that the future Decembrists lived here - the brothers Ippolit, Sergey and Matvey.

Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov, a famous poet, visited the hosts. It is believed that Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin also visited them.

In 1822, the Muraviev-Apostol family left the estate. Further, there were other owners, until the Alexander-Mariinsky shelter for teenagers and children was opened within these walls in the 40s, patronized by Empress Maria Feodorovna herself. This institution existed in the mansion until the revolution of 1917.

In the first years of Soviet power, the People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky, on the occasion of the imminent celebration of the December uprising of 1825 on Senate Square, proposed to open the Museum of the Decembrists on these squares. The idea was not supported, and the former mansion was given over to communal apartments.

In 1986, the museum was nevertheless opened, but no measures were taken to restore it, which led in 1991 to the collapse of the ceiling at the location of the main staircase. The building was closed for restoration, but due to the difficult financial situation in the country, state support was not provided. In 1997, the museum was completely closed.

Perhaps Moscow would have lost this historical monument if it were not for the support of the Swiss citizen Christopher Andreevich Muravyov-Apostol, one of the descendants of this famous family. He proposed and the building of the former manor was given to him on a long-term lease. The agreement was signed on the eve of the 175th anniversary of the December uprising - December 5, 2000. Immediately after that, restoration and restoration work began here.

In 2013, Moscow acquired another wonderful museum - the Muravyov-Apostol Estate. It opened after a long restoration, which was preceded by many different events.

From the idea of ​​​​creation to the opening of the museum

For the first time, the idea of ​​creating a museum in a beautiful mansion on Staraya Basmannaya, which at one time belonged to the family of Senator I.M. Muravyov-Apostol, appeared back in 1925. People's Commissar of Education A. Lunacharsky proposed to open within its walls an exposition dedicated to the centenary of the events on Senate Square. After all, it was in this house that the three main participants in the Decembrist uprising lived: Sergei, Ippolit and Matvey Muravyov-Apostles. But the idea did not find a response, communal apartments were arranged in the house. Years passed, the building dilapidated day by day and gradually collapsed.

And only in 1986 the museum of the Decembrists opened, but lasted only about 5 years and was closed due to the emergency state of the building. There were no funds in the state treasury for restoration work. And who knows what would happen to the most interesting architectural and historical monument, if it were not for the descendants of a glorious noble family. In 1991, representatives of the Muravyov-Apostol family came to Russia at the invitation of the Cultural Foundation, among them was the financier and philanthropist Christopher.

After getting acquainted with the family estate, he turned to the authorities of the capital with a request to take the mansion of his ancestors on a long-term lease, undertaking to restore it. And only in 2000 he received the appropriate permission from the Moscow authorities. Restoration work began on the basis of scientific and methodological restoration. After their completion, the house found a second life, reproducing the atmosphere of a 19th-century Moscow noble estate. There is a ballroom, living rooms, a bedroom, an office.

In the premises of the front suite there is an exposition, the basis of which is the family relics of the Muravyovs-Apostles: documents, books, albums, reproductions. The ground floor hosts various exhibitions, book presentations and interesting thematic lectures.

Manor of the Muravyov-Apostles on Staraya Basmannaya

Old Basmannaya street

Basmanny, like a drop, spread from the former Ilyinsky Gate of Kitay-gorod to the east, as if paving the way deep into Russia. Roads went along it to the Trinity-Sergeev Lavra, to Vladimir and Ryazan, as well as to the nearby grand-ducal, and later royal villages: in gardens, on the Vorontsovo field, Vasilyev meadow, which is at the confluence of the Moscow River and the Yauza. And distant villages: Rubtsovo, Stromyn, Preobrazhenskoye, Semenovskoye and Izmailovskoye. This is how a modern pedestrian will say far away, forgetting about long-legged clothes, rattles without wheels and axles, just on skids, and the absence of sneakers.

The territory "Basmannaya" occupies a special place among the districts of the Central Administrative District. The history of the development of the region is connected with the formation of Russian culture, science and art. First of all, this applies to a part of the area of ​​the former Nemetskaya and Basmannaya settlements, located between the streets of St. Basmannaya, Spartakovskaya and st. Kazakov. It is here, on the banks of the river. Yauza, during the time of Peter the Great's reforms, the technical renewal of Russia was born.

Old Basmannaya street

The activities of well-known representatives of Russian culture are associated with these places, the most striking of them: Rokotov - in art, Pushkin - in literature, Chaadaev - in philosophy, Zhukovsky - in aviation science. House number 36 on the street. Art. Basmannaya, where Uncle A.S. Pushkin, is associated with the stay of advanced people of that time - Derzhavin, Vyazemsky, Karamzin, etc. On this street (St. Basmannaya, 23) lived Muravyov-Apostol, the father of the three Decembrists Muravyovs. First-class architectural monuments and simply valuable historical buildings have been preserved on the territory: the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Yelokhovo, the Church of Nikita the Martyr, the Church of the Ascension, the Razumovsky estate, the Demidov Palace, the Musin-Pushkin house of the architect Kazakov and many others.

Ivan Matveyevich Muravyov with his daughter Elizabeth, deputy. Ozharovsky

Ivan Matveevich Muraviev-Apostol(October 1 (12), 1762 - March 12 (24), 1851) - Russian writer and diplomat from the Muravyov family, who took the double surname Muravyov-Apostol. Envoy to Hamburg and Madrid, then senator. The owner of the house on Staraya Basmannaya. Father of three Decembrists

Born near the Opechenskaya pier near Borovichi, Novgorod province, on October 1, 1768, in the family of Major General Matvey Artamonovich Muravyov and Elena Petrovna Apostol (by mother, the great-grandson of the hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army Daniil Apostol). He was the only child of his parents, his mother married, contrary to the wishes of her father, and was deprived of a dowry; died immediately after the birth of her son. In 1801, Ivan Matveyevich adopted the surname Muraviev-Apostol at the request of his cousin M.D. Apostol (in connection with the suppression of the Little Russian family of Apostles).

Since 1773, he was recorded as a soldier in the Life Guards of the Izmailovsky Regiment. In 1776-1777 he studied mathematics and languages ​​at the German boarding school of L. Euler (St. Petersburg), after the closure of the boarding house he "educated and studied" at home. In October 1784, he entered active service as chief auditor in the staff of the St. Petersburg Governor-General Ya. A. Bruce, from 1785 his adjutant wing (from 1788 with the rank of second major). He served in the Collegium of Foreign Affairs, in the provisions staff. He was in charge of the channel in Shlisselburg (with the rank of prime minister).

Ivan Matveevich

In 1792, under the patronage of M. N. Muravyov, he was invited to the court of Empress Catherine II as a “cavalier” (educator) under the Grand Dukes Alexander Pavlovich and Konstantin Pavlovich; then appointed Chief of Ceremonies. At court, he managed to please not only the empress, but also Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, the future emperor, which ensured his future career.

Matvey Ivanovich Muravyov-Apostol (1793-1886) - Decembrist, participant in the uprising of the Chernigov regiment, author of memoirs.

In December 1796, he was sent with the rank of chamberlain to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich as a resident minister in Eitin to the court of Peter of Oldenburg (in 1798 he combined with a similar post in Hamburg, and at the end of 1799 also in Copenhagen). Everywhere he stepped up the activity of the anti-French coalition. The exceptional linguistic talents of Muravyov-Apostol contributed to the diplomatic service: he knew at least 8 ancient and modern foreign languages. In 1800 he was recalled to Russia, in July he was promoted to Privy Councilor, in 1801 - Vice-President of the Foreign Collegium.

Muravyov-Apostol, Sergei Ivanovich (10/09/1796 - 07/25/1826) - lieutenant colonel, one of the leaders of the Decembrist movement.

Not belonging to the number of supporters of Emperor Paul (despite his favor), he took part in the anti-Pavlovsk conspiracy of 1801, becoming the author of one of the unrealized projects of legislative restriction of supreme power.

St. Petersburg. Senate Square December 14, 1825. Drawing by Kolman from Count Benckendorff's office in Phall.

In 1802, he took the post of envoy to Spain, but in 1805, for unclear reasons (according to A. S. Pushkin, he fell out of favor with the emperor for disclosing false information about the preparation of the anti-Pavlovian conspiracy) was dismissed and until 1824 did not serve anywhere.

In 1817-1824 he lived with his family in his family estate in Chomutts. In the summer of 1819, Ivan Matveevich completed the translation of Aristophanes' comedy Clouds. Disappointment associated with the intrigues of the new environment of Alexander I and their removal from the court of the main organizers of the conspiracy - P. A. Palen and patron I. M. Muravyov-Apostol, his immediate superior N.P. Panin, “faithful to the rules of honor and sound politics,” influenced the choice of this particular work by the ancient Greek comedian, who ridiculed both the new “teachers” who preach freedom from ancient moral restrictions, and the fooled people who believed them.

But circumstances were soon to change.

Khomutets, the estate of I. M. Muravyov, inherited from the Apostles

In March 1824 he was appointed to attend the Governing Senate, and in August became a member of the Main School of Government. A number of his official "opinions" of 1824-1825, diverging in handwritten lists, received a wide public outcry:

in defense of the director of the Department of Public Education, V. M. Popov, who participated in the translation from the German language of the mystical book by I. Gosner, which was banned upon publication;
about the right of universities and professors to use books apart from censorship;
"The opinion of a member of the Main Schools of the Board on the teaching of philosophy" in defense of the teaching of philosophy in universities, against which M. L. Magnitsky opposed.
The opinions expressed on specific “cases” argued for the need to mitigate censorship and moderate freedom of thought, but in the conditions of that time they demonstrated a certain civic courage and created a reputation for Muravyov-Apostol as a liberal. There is evidence that members of secret societies intended to make Muravyov-Apostol a member of the provisional revolutionary government.

Ivan Matveevich
After the defeat of the Decembrist uprising and the tragedy that befell the sons of Muravyov-Apostol (Ippolit, not wanting to give up, shot himself, Sergey was hanged, Matvey was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, but was soon sent to a settlement in Siberia; before the trial, on May 11, 1826, a meeting between his father and Matvey took place and Sergei in the Peter and Paul Fortress), he left the service, and in May 1826 was "dismissed due to illness in foreign lands." Until 1847, he was listed as an absent senator. He lived mainly in Vienna and Florence. He returned to Russia in the 1840s. The name of Muravyov-Apostol was not mentioned in the press from 1826 until the end of the 1850s. His memoirs and library have been lost, although individual copies of the books are kept in the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Scientific Library of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. He died in St. Petersburg and was buried at the Georgievsky cemetery on Bolshaya Okhta.

Anna Muravyova with her son Matvey and daughter Ekaterina.
Painter Jean Laurent Monnier, 1799

Ivan Matveyevich showed both the virtues and vices of an enlightened Russian master: he was famous as an amiable and hospitable host and a fine deli, an epicurean and a spendthrift (lived 2 millionth fortune), but at the same time an egoist and family despot.

Since 1790: 1st wife - Anna Semyonovna Chernoevich (1770-1810), daughter of a Serbian general. Sons were born from this marriage:

Matvey (1793-1886), lieutenant colonel, Decembrist
Sergei (1796-1826), lieutenant colonel, Decembrist
Ippolit (1806-1826), ensign, Decembrist
daughters:

Elizabeth (1791-1814), married since 1809 to Count Franz Petrovich Ozharovsky (1785-1828);
Ekaterina (1795-1861), married to Major General Illarion Mikhailovich Bibikov (1793-1861);
Anna (1797-1861), married to Alexander Dmitrievich Khrushchev;
Elena (1799-1855), married since 1824 to Semyon Vasilyevich Kapnist (1791-1843).
Since 1812: 2nd wife - Praskovya Vasilievna Grushetskaya (1780−1852), daughter of a senator and real Privy Councilor Vasily Vladimirovich Grushetsky.

Evdokia (1813-1850), since 1845 married to Prince Alexander Petrovich Khovansky (1809-1895).
Elizabeth (1815 - 18 ..), in the 1st marriage to Baron Stalting, in the 2nd to Widburg.
Vasily (1817-1867), was married to the maid of honor Marianne Gurko (born 1823), daughter of V. I. Gurko

Participated in meetings of the Conversations of Lovers of the Russian Word (member since 1811). He was a member of the Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. Since 1811, a full member of the Russian Academy, since 1841 - an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy

His most significant work is a book in 25 "letters" "Journey through Taurida in 1820" (St. Petersburg, 1823) - the result of a trip to the Crimea. It contains valuable information on archeology, flora and fauna of Crimea, characteristic details of urban, rural and monastic life , colorful descriptions of oriental customs. The author expresses the idea of ​​the need to preserve the "precious remains of antiquity."

The book "Journey through Taurida ..." was highly appreciated by A. S. Pushkin, who visited the Crimea at the same time as Muravyov-Apostol and A. S. Griboedov, who visited the peninsula in 1825.

Podstanitsyn collection

Podstanitsyn collection

Muravyov-Apostol, according to contemporaries (including K. N. Batyushkov, N. I. Grech) - a man of brilliant mind, extraordinary erudition and many talents, an esthete, a polyglot and a bibliophile (he had a unique library), traveled almost all of Europe, where he met with I. Kant, F. G. Klopstock, V. Alfieri, D. Byron.

Manor Muravyov_Apostolov in Moscow on Staraya Basmannaya Street

The house-estate of the Muravyov-Apostols is a private house-estate of I. M. Muravyov-Apostol in Moscow on Staraya Basmannaya Street, built in the style of classicism at the end of the 18th - 1st quarter of the 19th century.

A three-story mansion, based on a wooden frame on a brick plinth, on its second floor there is a front suite of rooms, consisting of an office, a front bedroom, two living rooms, a ballroom, and a small semi-rotunda. The street facade is decorated with a six-column portico and antique friezes over high windows second floor, the left side of the building ends with a semi-rotunda.

A three-story mansion, based on a wooden frame on a brick plinth, on its second floor there is a front suite of rooms, consisting of an office, a front bedroom, two living rooms, a ballroom, and a small semi-rotunda. The street facade is decorated with a six-column portico and antique friezes over high windows second floor, the left side of the building ends with a semi-rotunda.

The former Babushkin Lane (now Lukyanova Street) leads to Basmannaya Street, in which the factory of the merchant Babushkin was located; the main entrance to house number 23 is also from the alley. The building looks very proportionate, creating the image of a simple but elegant city estate and giving an opportunity to imagine Basmannaya Street of two hundred years ago, when the church of Nikita the Martyr (Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God) still completely dominated the district, and the neighboring mansions of the Kurakins, Demidovs, Razumovskys had not yet been rebuilt .

On the territory that stretched from Staraya Basmannaya to Novaya Basmannaya Street, there were linen and silk factories. The first buildings were made in the middle of the 18th century. The house was resold many times, it went to the heiress of the daughter of the manufacturer P. A. Babushkin - Alexandra Petrovna Volkonskaya, wife of Prime Major Prince Yu. P. Volkonsky, who sold the house at the beginning of the 19th century. On the basis of the old house, the house that we see today was built. (1803-1806)

In 1803, the estate was bought by retired captain Pavel Ivanovich Yakovlev, who rebuilt the house in the style of late classicism: a white-stone plinth, a six-columned portico with Corinthian columns and bas-reliefs in antique scenes on the sides of the portico, a triangular pediment, a semicircular rotunda at the corner of the street and lane. Further 1809-1915. the house was owned by Countess E. A. Saltykova and Count R. A. Vorontsov.

Then it is bought and owned in 1815-1822. - noblewoman Praskovya Vasilievna (Grushevskaya) Muravyova-Apostol - the second wife of the senator, writer, member of the Russian Academy Ivan Matveyevich Muravyov-Apostol (1765-1851). He receives the house as a dowry of his wife. The estate was not affected by the fire of 1812 and in 1815 passed into the possession of Ivan Matveyevich Muravyov-Apostol after his second marriage. (His first wife, Anna Semyonovna Chernoevich, mother of his seven children, died in 1810.)

The house was quite crowded, receptions were held, his sons visited their father. In 1816 the poet lived here Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov. This period was outwardly prosperous for the family, but at that time the Decembrist movement was taking shape. All three sons of Ivan Matveyevich were among the main participants in the uprising, who fought for the abolition of serfdom in Russia. The suppression of the rebellion also became a family tragedy: Sergei was hanged, Ippolit shot himself, Matvey was sent to hard labor. The house has been sold.

At a later time, one of its owners opened the Alexander-Mariinsky orphanage for girls here, which then passed into the possession of the Department of Orphanages of Empress Maria. The shelter occupied the front and mezzanine floors. Director of the shelter V. A. von Levdik. The ground floor and outbuilding were rented out as apartments, shops and craftsmen's workshops. In 1912, on the site of the estate, they were going to build a 6-storey apartment building. The project was not implemented.

In 1925, A. Lunacharsky was going to open a museum of the Decembrists, but it was realized only in 1986, when a branch of the State Historical Museum was opened in the estate.

Museum of the Decembrists

Opening of the museum together with the descendants of the Muravyovs

OPENING OF THE HOUSE-MUSEUM 21.05.2013

Heirs-patrons at a reception on the occasion of the opening of the museum

Created in 1986 as a branch of the State Historical Museum, closed in 1997. The first attempt to display some materials on the history of the Decembrists in Moscow was the opening in the 1890s. "Rooms of people of the 40s" (existed until 1925, then - in the funds of the State Historical Museum) in the Rumyantsev Museum on the initiative of E. S. Nekrasova and the director of the museum M. A. Venivitinov.

The question of creating a Decembrist Museum was discussed in 1925 and 1975. In 1976, the State Museum of Fine Arts, which had a rich collection of Decembrist materials, developed the concept of creating a museum. Since 1977, the creation of the Museum of the Decembrists has been facilitated by the activities of the Commission on the History of the Decembrist Movement at the Moscow City Branch of the All-Russian Union of People's Commissars.

In September 1986 the museum was located in the estate. The manor house was built by the architect of the circle M. F. Kazakov (in 1816-1817 the future Decembrists M. I., S. I. and I. I. Muravyov-Apostols, the poet K. N. Batyushkov visited the house).

The Museum of the Decembrists did not have its own funds, using the materials of the State Historical Museum as a branch for organizing exhibitions: “Pushkin and the Decembrists” (1987), “Relics of the Patriotic War of 1812” (1987), “Decembrists and their contemporaries in daguerreotype and photography” (1988) , “Decembrist M. S. Lunin” (1989), “500 years of the Muravyov family” (1990), “Decembrist relics” (1991), “Decembrist M. A. Fonvizin” (1991) and others; work was underway to create a permanent exhibition on the theme "Decembrists in Moscow".

However, already in 1991 the museum was closed due to the emergency state of the building.

In the same year, at the invitation of the Soviet Cultural Foundation, the Muravyov-Apostles came to Russia: Alexei, Andrei and his son Christopher.

They bring family relics as a gift and, seeing the deplorable state of their ancestors' house, decide to restore it with the help of the family. Christopher took on this difficult task. A non-profit organization was created, which was the founder of the House-Museum of Matvey Muravyov-Apostol. After several years spent on various formalities, in December 2000, the main house of the Muravyov-Apostolov estate was leased to the museum for 49 years by the Decree of the Moscow Government.

Restoration has begun. The restoration is carried out according to a unique technology with the preservation of the old wooden frame of the building; during the restoration, open fragments of wood were left in the walls. In the courtyard of the building, a one and a half meter cultural layer of earth was removed, artifacts were found during the excavations, they were transferred to the museum, and upon completion they will be exhibited.

The estate hosts exhibitions and receptions. Recently, the Christie's auction house celebrated its 15th anniversary in Russia at the estate.

The general director of the museum is Makeeva Tatyana Savelyevna

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Literature:

Muraviev-Apostol, Ivan Matveevich // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron: In 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907.
"Journey through Taurida ..." I. M. Muravyov-Apostol in the Crimean diary of A. S. Griboyedov