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Mannor -Museum of the Batyuskovs and A. Kuprin, village of
Danilovskoe, Ustyuzhna district, Vologda Region |
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Wednesday to Sunday 10.00 to 13.00, 14.00 to 17.00 |
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Days off - Monday, Tuesday |
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13 êì from Ustyuzhna there
is a literary museum "The Mannor of the Batyushkovs", a branch of the Ustyuzhna
Natural History Museum . It is located in the village of Danilovskoe. In the museum one
can learn about the life , activity , family tree and surrounding of the Russian poet
Konstantin Batyushkov, a teacher of A. Pushkin and his contemporary. |
The exhibition devoted a Russian writer Alexandr Kuprin is located on the
second flour of the mannor. Kuprin was a frequent guest of Danilovskoe, passionate
hunter and attentive descriptor of everyday mannor life. There are
descriptions of Ustyuzhna and visible portraits of its inhabitants of the beginning of XX
century. |
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Literature Museum in Danilovskoe was founded in 1960. In
1987 in the family mannor of the Batyushkovs a new memorail exhposition
was opened. An ancient parc of the Versaille style have been preserved in the mannor
as well as its principal alley that was planted the captured Frenches in
1813. |
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