Description of the attraction
In the village of Foros, in its western part, there is Tesseli's dacha (translated from Greek - "silence"). This classicist mansion has two floors and was built in 1889. During its construction, Inkerman stone was used, and the wall cladding consists of gray limestone, which is laid in a mosaic system. The palace simply exudes grandeur and “breathes” with antiquity. The upper, very spacious lobby is decorated with 15 canvases by the famous artist J. Clover. The mansion also retains the interior details of those times: parquet floors, tiled stoves, antique oak doors and marble fireplaces.
The landscape park is the green crown of the Tesseli estate. It was defeated in 1885-1892. The creation of this park took place with the participation of specialists from the botanical Nikitsky garden, gardener and scientist E. Albrecht, as well as artist Y. Klever. The park, which is widely spread on the coastal slopes, is a monument of republican significance of landscape gardening architecture. On one side of it is the sea coast, and on the other - Mount Foros and the Baydar Upland. Today, more than 200 forms and types of trees and shrubs grow here.
Tesseli's dacha is interesting not only as an architectural structure, but also as an object with a rich history. Aleksey Gorky and Fyodor Chaliapin rested here in 1916, as evidenced by a memorial plaque with bronze bas-reliefs installed on the facade of the dacha. In the 30s of the last century, the dacha was the center of literary life.
Tesseli's dacha was presented to A. Gorky by the Soviet authorities in honor of the fortieth anniversary of his social and literary life. Here the writer completed the work "The Life of Klim Samgin" and wrote the play "Ryabinin and Others". It was under Gorky that Tesseli became the center of social, literary and political life of society. The mansion was often visited by Soviet party and state leaders; such writers as S. Ya. Marshak, K. A. Trenev, A. N. Tolstoy, G. P. Storm and other outstanding and talented personalities.
The things of the writer and his favorite interior items are still kept in the Tesseli mansion. Thus, to this day, the office furniture is in good condition: a chair, an armchair, a leather armchair, a sofa, a grandfather clock, a large library consisting of books in Russian and foreign languages, photographs, portraits, paintings. On the territory of the dacha in 1959, a bust of A. M. Gorky from bronze.
Today, in the building of Tesseli's dacha, there is a building of the sanatorium of the Crimean Verkhovna Rada.
