Description of the attraction
The nanny's house is one of the buildings in the estate of A. S. Pushkin Mikhailovskoe. It was one of the first to be rebuilt in the 20th century. This small building in the form of a peasant hut is located to the left of the manor house. Its walls and roof are sheathed with boards. The house itself is built of large wooden logs. Traditionally it is called “the house of the nanny A. S. Pushkin ". It received this name, because in one of its rooms during the summer, the poet's nanny, Arina Rodionovna, lived. In fact, a private room was also allocated for her in the master's house. Despite the fact that she lived in this house only in the summer, the name "nanny's house" was firmly entrenched in it.
The house itself was small. It was approximately 9 meters long and 7 meters wide. This small hut, overgrown with lilac bushes, contained two rooms of the same size under one roof. The through corridor, which was located in the middle of the two rooms, went out on one end to the “black porch”, that is, on the Sorot River, and on the other end to the “red porch,” that is, on the estate.
On one side there was a room that served as a bathhouse. It was equipped with a Dutch stove and a boiler for heating water. Here Pushkin, like his hero Onegin, took ice baths. Later, after the restoration of this building, the organizers of the museum recreated here the typical setting of a peasant bath of that time.
On the other side there was a room - a light room. It had three small square windows. The decor in the parlor is very simple, corresponding to the village life of that time. In the right corner on the right was a Russian stove with a metal shutter. There is a stove bench on the stove. A wooden step leads to it. The bed is covered with a canvas canopy woven by the peasants of this area. There is a table in the middle of the room. It is covered with a handmade tablecloth. There are large chairs and a small sofa next to the table. There is a large wooden chest near the stove on one side. On the other hand, there is a small table with a samovar for tea drinking. There are also dishes on the table - porcelain saucers and cups of those times, a tin mug. There is a container for storing sugar and tea next to the dishes. The walls are lined with wide village shops. On one bench there are several spindles with Pskov painting. There is a spinning wheel nearby. Opposite the entrance, next to the wall, there is a chest of drawers. There is a box in it. This is the only thing that has come down to our time that really belonged to Arina Rodionovna. A hole for coins has been made in the lid of the box. The box was intended for storing coins and served her, most likely, as a piggy bank. There are also other utensils in the room. For example, candlesticks, torch light and other household items.
Here Pushkin's nanny lived in the summer. He loved to come with friends to Mikhailovskoye. They, like the poet himself, then remembered for a long time the warm welcome of Arina Rodionovna with unpretentious village treats. Here, when he left, she sat by the window knitting and gazed sadly at the road.
Arina Rodionovna died on July 31, 1828, having managed to see her beloved pupil after a long absence. Of all the seventy years she lived, she spent most of her life as a serf peasant. She served faithfully even to Abram Petrovich Hannibal himself. She came to the Pushkin family at the age of 39. Arina Rodionovna was a nanny for both Alexander Sergeevich and his older sister Olga Sergeevna. In her arms, she died in St. Petersburg.
The image of the nanny and her modest home was forever reflected in many famous works of Pushkin.
