Museum-Reserve
S.T. Aksakova

The Orenburg Region is home to one of the two Ural museums dedicated to the famous Russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov. The museum-reserve is located in the village of Aksakovo, which was formerly called Znamenskoye, after the name of the local church.

This village was founded in the 1760s by the writer's grandfather, the nobleman Stepan Mikhailovich Aksakov, who bought an extensive plot here. He brought his serfs here from Simbirsk province. In 1814, Stepan Mikhailovich's son built a stone church in the village in the name of the Sign of the Mother of God with a three-tiered bell tower. The Aksakovs' one-story house was cut down from the trees of the famous Buzuluk forest. The writer's grandfather created a beautiful park with lime and pine alleys near the house. He also soon built a pond on the Buguruslan River and built a mill.

Later, the future writer Sergey Timofeevich Aksakov spent the most wonderful childhood years here. He remembered these places all his life. Here he learned to truly love and appreciate nature, to notice the natural beauties around us. All this is reflected in his works. These places are mentioned in the writer's now famous autobiographical trilogy.From the age of eight, young Aksakov spent every summer here. Even as an adult, already a writer, S.T. Aksakov continued to come to his native estate often, bringing his wife and children with him.

They began to perpetuate the memory of the writer Aksakov even before the 1917 revolution. The estate was bought out and they wanted to organize an Aksakov labor aid circle and a craft school in it. In addition, the garden was put in order and a chapel was built. However, with the advent of Soviet power, the house of the great writer faced difficult times. For some time it housed a children's colony, then a volost committee, a hospital, a post office, a school, an office and an MTS dormitory. In 1962, the Aksakov house was demolished.…

The Communists also demolished the Znamenskaya Church, razed the Aksakov family crypt, destroyed the dam and pond, and the mill burned down. It was only with the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s that they thought about recreating Aksakov's places. The newly built S.T. Aksakov House Museum was opened to the public in August 1998. During the reconstruction of the house and the creation of expositions, much attention was paid to the works of S.T. Aksakov associated with these places. The museum has six halls.

Tourists will learn a lot of interesting things in the Aksakov house museum: about the development of these lands by the Russians, about the Aksakov noble family, about their move here, about the life of the writer S.T. Aksakov and his works, etc. An alley of acacias has been preserved in front of the museum house. Previously, there was a gazebo where the Aksakov family liked to relax. And behind the house is the very park that was laid out by the writer's grandfather. Tourists who come here can stroll through the park, along linden alley, which Sergei Timofeevich loved to visit so much.