Spasskoe-Lutovinovo is the only memorial museum of Ivan Turgenev in Russia. It is Spassky, because there has long been the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior. Lutovinovo - named after the first owner of the estate, Ivan Lutovinov, to whom Tsar Ivan the Terrible gave these lands back in the 16th century. The owner used them with great reason, building a two-story mansion with a library, theater and even choirs for musicians. This predetermined the creative direction of the building. It was not for nothing that later Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev wrote so well here.
For Ivan Turgenev, Spasskoe-Lutovinovo was, as they say, the center of life. Here he spent his serene childhood, here he was under house arrest after the conflict with Nicholas the First, here his story "The Inn" and the unpublished story "Two Generations" were born, here he wrote "Rudin". Later, having already returned from Europe, Ivan Sergeevich gave life to his main works here - “ Noble Nest”, “On the Eve” and “Fathers and Sons”.
The Turgenev family estate is famous not only for the fact that its talented owner lived and worked here, but also for the fact that legendary guests came here to visit him. Not only Afanasy Fet, Ivan Aksenov, but also Leo Tolstoy have repeatedly visited Spassskoye-Lutovinovo.
But this memorial museum might not exist. After the death of Ivan Turgenev, the house burned down. Only after the revolution the estate was declared state reserve. But only in 1976 was the lost house finally restored, furnished with miraculously preserved furniture that adorned it in 1881, when the writer last time stayed in the family home.
A new stage in the development of the memorial began in 1988, when the restoration of the old park began.
Only after twenty years of continuous work did the estate in Spassskoye-Lutovinovo take on the appearance that delighted Turgenev and his great guests. Now every year more than a hundred tourists can admire the mansion with carved patterned verandas, small windows of the mezzanine, porches of Turgenev's time. It is not only in the same place, but also in the same form. A special role is played by interior items of those times, including the famous huge Turgenev sofa in the living room. Perhaps Leo Tolstoy, who was visiting Ivan Sergeevich, sat on it.
The main relics of the mansion are the family icon of the Savior Not Made by Hands, a collection of paintings with works by Klodt, Sverchkov, Dmitriev-Orenburgsky, a huge library collected by generations of the Turgenevs.
Manor in Spassky-Lutovinovo - the standard of landlord life mid-nineteenth century. It means a lot not only to literary glory Russia, but also for history itself. That is why people love to re-read Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter so much. This is exactly the work in which the author talks most of all about his family estate.
“If you have an atlas, find a map of Russia in it and swipe your finger from Moscow towards the Black Sea; on your way - a little north of Orel - you will find the city of Mtsensk. So here it is! My village is located 10 kilometers from this place with a name that is rather difficult to pronounce, as you can see. This is a perfect wilderness - quiet, green, sad.
I. S. Turgenev
TURGENEV Ivan Sergeevich
According to his father, Turgenev belonged to the ancient noble family, mother, nee Lutovinova, a wealthy landowner; in her estate Spasskoe-Lutovinovo ( Mtsensk district Oryol province) passed the childhood years of the future writer, who early learned to subtly feel nature
Russian estate is the whole world, whole era, the cradle of Russian poets, artists, writers, scientists. It was the Russian estate that inspired, nurtured, inspired Pushkin, Turgenev, Repin. All estates were arranged differently, but there is something that unites them. Linden alleys, centuries-old oaks, and space have become a symbol of any Russian estate. The house was usually built on a clearing. On the example of the Turgenev estate, it was not even in the center. In the center is a linden alley, it was there that the concentration of the spirit, thoughts, thoughts of the writer was located, judging by the tenderness with which he touched on this topic in his works. It was necessary to have ponds, stables, a utility block in addition to the house itself, an orchard.
ESTATE PLAN
1. Church gatehouse 10. Oak
2. Church 11. Stable
3. Almshouse 12. Carriage house
4. Museum House 13. Well
5. Upper garden 14. Blacksmith's pond
6. Lower Garden 15. Zakhara Pond
7. Cellar 16. Dam
The main house and buildings of the estate are surrounded by an old park. It was laid out at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries by the founder of the Spasskaya estate, I. I. Lutovinov. We find a description of the old park in Turgenev’s novel “Nov”: “It was the great-grandfather’s black-earth garden, which you will not see on this side of Moscow. Situated along a long slope of a hollow hill, it consisted of four clearly marked sections. Directly in front of the house, about two hundred paces away, was a flower garden, with straight sandy paths, groups of acacias and lilacs, and round "flower beds"; to the left, passing the stable yard, to the very threshing floor stretched an orchard densely planted with apple trees, pears, plums, currants and raspberries; Directly in front of the house rose linden crossed alleys in a large continuous quadrangle. To the right, the view was blocked by a road obscured double row silver poplars; from behind a bunch of weeping birches one could see the steep roof of the greenhouse.
Linden alleys have become an indispensable attribute of any Russian estate. Slender, tall, they have become a symbol of lofty thoughts and thoughts, the paths between them are narrow, so thoughts stretch upwards into the sky, following the linden branches, directed to heaven. There is no nobler tree than a linden, and therefore Russian poetry, cherished by lindens, is noble, lofty and majestic.
The park in Spassky-Lutovinovo, of course, was one of the best examples of the Russian estate landscape gardening art late XVIII —early XIX centuries. The garden was laid out in the English style, with a regular park, apple orchards, greenhouses, fruit fields, labyrinths of winding serpentine paths. Since the foundation of the park, about 2,000 century-old and bicentennial lindens, ash trees, firs, oaks, silvery poplars and trees of other species typical of central Russia have been preserved.
In the central part of the park, clear crosshairs of linden alleys form the Roman numeral XIX. Spacious all around landscaped garden. In it, groups of trees are interspersed with light lawns, bordered by lilac and honeysuckle bushes. The labyrinth of paths leads to the Big Spassky Pond and the Varnavitsky Ravine.
Every corner of the park is associated with the memory of Turgenev. His favorite bench stands on the bank of the Great Spassky Pond; an arbor formed by a ring of lindens is described in the novel Rudin; the alley, planted by the writer himself during his exile, leads to another similar pavilion in the depths of the park. In the story "Punin and Baburin" Turgenev recalls the first childhood delights that he experienced here, listening to the reading of M. Kheraskov's poem "Rossiada". Admiration for the beauty of the park sounds on the pages of the stories "Faust", "Ghosts" and many other works of the writer.
Around the manor house on 40 hectares there is a magnificent park, whose dense linden alleys descend to the pond in ledges. Since the foundation of the park, about 2,000 century-old and two-hundred-year-old lindens, ash trees, maples, firs, oaks, elms, birches, silvery poplars and trees of other species characteristic of central Russia have been preserved.
The park in Turgenev's estate is a unique monument of Russian landscape gardening art. The park in Spassky-Lutovinovo preserved character traits vintage noble estates and is rightfully considered one of the most beautiful manor parks in Russia.
The writer liked to relax in the shade of fragrant greenery. The crossroads of linden alleys, sunny lawns overgrown with silky grass, the incessant chirping of birds and the mirror-like surface of the pond were dearer to him than any of the famous parks in Europe.
The nature of Spassky-Lutovinov cannot leave anyone indifferent. It dominates Turgenev's works, forcing the reader to empathize with the heroes in sorrow and joy.
“Poetry is not poured out in verses alone: it is everywhere. Take a look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life breathe from everywhere, and where there is beauty, there is life ... "
HOUSE MUSEUM
The writer's house, which burned down in 1906, was restored in its original place and in the form that Ivan Sergeevich found him on his last visit to his homeland, in the summer of 1881. Carved patterned verandas, immersed in the greenery of ivy, small mezzanine windows and porches, a suite of rooms and them interior decoration- the whole appearance of the house helps to feel the spirit of Turgenev's time.
In the atmosphere of the house - furniture, which is the best examples of the work of Russian masters of the 18th - first half of the 19th centuries. Some of these things are the rarest works applied arts. The glare of mahogany and Karelian birch fills the rooms with light and warmth. The feeling of home comfort is given by the old clocks ticking in the corner of the dining room. english watch. In its former place in the small living room, visitors are greeted by a huge cozy sofa "samosom", memorable to many guests of Spassky. In the office there is a desk, behind which Turgenev's best works were born.
It was in Spassky that Turgenev experienced a special creative upsurge and inspiration, he admitted: “It is written well only when living in a Russian village. There, the air seems to be "full of thoughts"! .. Thoughts suggest themselves ".
WING
The so-called "outhouse of the exile" was built in the 40s of the 19th century for the managers of the estates of the Turgenevs.
The first mention of the wing is contained in a letter from V.P. Turgeneva to I.S. Turgenev dated May 14/26, 1843. Varvara Petrovna writes to her son: “Uncle (N. N. Turgenev - A. M.) disposes to live in Spasskoye and builds an outbuilding for himself” (Department of Manuscripts of the Russian national library. F. 795 [I. S. Turgenev]. Unit ridge 96. L. 19-20). After the death of Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev in 1834, his younger brother, Nikolai Nikolaevich Turgenev became not only the guardian of Ivan and Nikolai Turgenev, but also the manager of the Turgenev estates. In February 1841, N. N. Turgenev was elected marshal of the nobility in Cherni. Varvara Petrovna, in letters to her son, more than once expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the chores as a district marshal of the nobility distract Nikolai Nikolayevich from managing the estate; On September 25, 1843, she writes to Ivan Sergeevich: “Uncle returned completely to health, to life< …>, he leaves his service, Niello, he finished the wing in Spasskoye and tomorrow he is moving into it, he goes straight into the garden into the alley. He calls it your rooms, God knows when the owner will be in them. - But! When you do, you will not complain that there is no shadow! Great - from the balcony to lindens, to large birches ... ".
In a postscript to this message of Varvara Petrovna, N. N. Turgenev informed his nephew: “I am moving to a new outbuilding, arranged for you” (Ibid. L. 54-55). In 1846, N. N. Turgenev married Elizaveta Semyonovna Belokopytova and moved to his Karachev village of Yushkovo.
It is known that during the Spassky exile of 1852-1853. I. S. Turgenev lived precisely in the wing (the writer’s house was then occupied by the family of Nikolai Nikolayevich Tyutchev, who was the manager of the Spassky estate for a short time). Therefore, since the beginning of the twentieth century, light hand literary critics, the name "outhouse of the exile" was assigned to the building.
TEMPLE OF SAVING TRANSFORMATION
In the documents of the early 17th century, including the charter of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, the main estate of the Lutovinovs in the Mtsensk district is called “the foals of the village of Spassky” or “a quarter of the village of Spassky”. It is possible that the first church buildings were lost during the years of the Polish-Lithuanian invasion and the subsequent turmoil, which is indirectly evidenced by the name of Spassky, which existed until the 1780s as a village, and not a village, as it should have been under the current church.
The first documentary information about the Church of the Savior dates back to the 1780s - in the Economic Notes to the General Survey of 1778-1796. it is indicated: “The churchyard of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord; three tithes, possessions of the clergy; on dry land in the graveyard there is a wooden church.
In "Vedomosti" about the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior for 1897, the date of "opening" of the church is 1778. In the fund of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in the State Archives of the Oryol Region, registers of birth and books about the church parish are kept since 1780.
I.F. Rynda in the article “Features from the life of I.S. Turgenev” wrote: “In the last century, there was a dilapidated wooden church in the village, at which, since 1780, there were priests and two clerks. Despite the fact that there were 12 rich landowners in the Spassky parish, none of them took care of the church. Only I. I. Lutovinov drew attention to him. Seeing that the church was already falling apart, in 1808 he built a stone, very spacious and beautiful church at his own expense.
The new stone church was built in conjunction with the manor, and the temple was moved from the graveyard to the master's land (the graveyard at that time was not called a cemetery, as later, but a separate church territory located outside the settlements). Three and a half tithes of land were allotted for the church estate. On the site of the old wooden church, above the family crypt, in the middle of the old cemetery, a family chapel was built.
Characteristics of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior as architectural monument deserves special attention. It is made by hand experienced craftsman who is familiar with the techniques of proportioning, who freely decided the composition of the temple in the traditional for those years classical forms. In the unpublished volume of the Code of Historical and Cultural Monuments in the Orel Region, the church in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo is characterized as "an interesting example of a small manor church of the early 19th century in the style of mature classicism."
It is no coincidence that the church is located in the estate. The Russian soul and its belief in the expediency of all life on this planet are inseparable from each other. If Tergenev had not had ancestors who would have taken care to preserve this church, then Turgenev would not have been exactly the way he was. Love for God and for nature in Russian people have grown together into a single inseparable whole. The Russian sees God in a blade of grass, in a bug, in a dewdrop. Everything has divine meaning, and a Russian person comprehends this intuitively. Most of all, a Russian person appreciates will and primordial beauty, because God determined the measure for all living things, namely the measure is the key to comprehending perfection and harmony. French proper gardens will never inspire him like tender forget-me-nots in a birch grove, because admiration and reverence for mother nature endow him with divine intuition. All the discoveries, all the most beautiful poems, poems, prose - everything was written in deaf silence, peering, peering, admiring perfection every moment, filling the soul with joy and delight.
Source of text and photo: http://www.spasskoye-lutovinovo.ru
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For the first time I visited the museum-estate of I.S. Turgenev in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, Orel region, back in school years. It was a trip to summer holidays, real, with backpacks, spending the night in tents and food cooked on a fire. We were very lucky with the teacher of literature, it was she who came up with such a trip, where there was tourist romance, and talk about Russian classics by the fire and the writer's estate at the end of the route.
Since then, I have been visiting this estate more than once with pleasure. different time year, as soon as I miss these places, I go.
Turgenev had a beautiful estate, a wonderful example of a Russian estate with a luxurious Russian-style park!
We came here for a walk on a fine day on April 30, the greenery had just appeared, the first flowers bloomed, it was a pleasure to walk in the park.
At the entrance there is a small manor temple of the early 19th century - the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which is still in operation today.
Ivan Sergeevich's parents got married here.
There are always very interesting excursions here, the guides are ready to answer questions and talk about the estate and the writer beyond the time and program.
I will not repeat everything that we were told, I will just show a little of the manor views with comments.
A few words about the history of the estate.
The name Spasskoe-Lutovinovo combines the name of the temple and the name of the first owner I. Lutovinov, who received these lands back in the 16th century as a reward from Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
The estate on the lands of Spassky was built by the great-uncle of the writer, he was the leader of the nobility of the Mtsensk and Chernsky districts, he was a rich man, had 5,000 serfs and several estates in different areas.
In Spasskoye he built a large two-story wooden house with columns, overlaid it with bricks from the outside, there was also a library and a theater in the house. Around the house he laid out flower beds and a large park, surrounding it with a moat around the perimeter.
In addition, there was a whole complex of buildings around the main house: a stone gallery, a kitchen, a bathhouse, a barnyard, a poultry yard, a smithy, a carpenter's outbuilding and a mill, a number of other outbuildings, a hospital, a police outbuilding, and a laboratory stood nearby.
It was like a small state, even the positions sounded important - the Minister of Posts, the Minister of Health, etc.
After the death of I.I. Lutovinov's estate, by a court decision, was inherited by his niece Varvara Petrovna Lutovinova, who later married a pillar nobleman, a participant in the war of 1812, S. I. Turgenev.
In their marriage appeared future writer I.S. Turgenev.
He spent his childhood years in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo. At that time, the estate prospered, the estate was constantly visited by guests, balls, picnics and home performances were held.
At the beginning of the 19th century, there was a large house in the shape of a horseshoe - the main two-story building with columns and two stone galleries connecting the house with wooden outbuildings.
But when it became necessary to give the children a decent education, the family left Spassky, everything was left unattended, fell into disrepair, and in 1839 there was a fire here, as a result of which the house was badly damaged, lost the theater, large hall, guest room, etc. They did not completely restore the house, they just made extensions to the house.
After the death of Varvara Petrovna, the house went to I.S. Turgenev. 
This semicircular stone gallery is a historical, preserved part of the house, everything else wooden was restored according to the preserved drawings in our time, because it was badly damaged during the war. The exhibits of the museum were saved and taken out for the duration of the war (in my opinion, to Perm). The territory of the estate was pitted with dugouts, trenches, craters from bombs and shells, many old trees were destroyed.
During the Great Patriotic War, a hospital was located here, there is a burial place and a monument to soldiers not far from the main house.
I heard the guide of another group tell the schoolchildren that this burial is being looked after, there are always fresh flowers, and “I hope it will always be like this and that what is happening with the memory of the Second World War in Ukraine today will not happen,” the guide said. 
This house is called the "Outhouse of the Exile". Here Ivan Sergeevich lived during his exile.
Yes, there was such a story, in 1852 - 1853 in Spasskoye-Lutovinovo the writer was under house arrest on the personal order of Nicholas I.
The manager's family at that time, with the consent of Turgenev, lived in the main house. The writer did not move his family to the wing, but settled in it himself.
And the reason for the arrest and exile was that Turgenev wrote an obituary on the death of N.V. Gogol, and despite the prohibitions, published it in Moskovskie Vedomosti. 
Bath, and behind the stable and carriage house 
The centerpiece was the entrance to the house through the brown steps through the lace veranda. In summer, the verandas are covered with ivy. 
At the end of April, there are still a few blossoming flowers near the house, but already in some places daffodils, tulips, muscarias are blooming. And in summer there are a lot of roses, including tall climbing, many climbing plants. Beautiful flower beds here! 
Unfortunately, photography is strictly prohibited in the house, you can only take pictures in the park, so I took photos of the interiors from the Internet (apparently, not everyone is forbidden to take pictures?).
I am always amazed at these prohibitions, indignant and upset, and there were many besides me. The administration was not in the museum that day, there was no one to ask about the reasons for the ban, but I was not too lazy to express my bewilderment in the guest book and asked for a written answer, indicating my email address.
There is no answer yet. But I'll write again.)
Often the reason is the desire not to damage the memorial objects with a flashlight. But this is some stone Age, modern cameras, as far as I know, have long been completely safe. And if someone has an old one, then the flash can be turned off or not photographed if it does not turn off. But why can't the others.
In my opinion, this is just arbitrariness.
So, the house of the writer.
Here Turgenev lived in total 17 years.
The tour starts from the gallery, at the time of the writer there was a kitchen, pantry, closets. Now, from the significant, we are met by a large portrait of Turgenev and ancient lamps.
We pass further into the rooms, here the atmosphere of the landowner interiors of the 19th century reigns, with beautiful furniture of the 18th-19th centuries made of Karelian birch and mahogany.
Dining room
Visited Turgenev famous people- Tolstoy, Nekrasov, Aksakov, Polonsky, Shchepkin, Tyutchev, Fet and others, long conversations and disputes took place in these rooms.
Turgenev was very fond of music, it often sounded in his house
This large sofa "Samson" in the small living room was famous for the fact that everyone fell asleep on it very easily and quickly. And not only the owner, but also his guests.
The guide told us the story of how Turgenev began to read to L.N. Tolstoy new novel"Fathers and Sons".
Tolstoy sat on this green sofa and fell asleep pretty quickly. Turgenev was offended and left.
Lev Nikolaevich had to explain himself and apologize: "I'm tired with long road, slept a little, so I fell asleep."))
Cozy living room. Hanging on the walls of the house authentic paintings from the collection of the Turgenev family
Writer's office. At this table in Spasskoe, "The Nest of Nobles", "Rudin", "Fathers and Sons", "On the Eve", "Nov" were written ...
The guide said that Turgenev was very fond of order, could not start working or fall asleep if at least something was out of place.
The billiard room and the library are located in one room, the largest in the house. The writer's library is vast, books on different languages.
Room - "casino"
All the interiors in these rooms have been restored according to surviving drawings, down to the color and pattern of the wallpaper. But the situation of the rest of the rooms has not been preserved.
The writer's house stands in a huge park with an area of 40 hectares. They say that this park is one of the best examples of Russian manor landscape gardening art.
There is no luxury, fountains, sculptures. The central place is occupied by linden alleys, planted exactly in the form of the Roman numeral XIX. In the center they form a large round glade with benches for rest, from which alleys diverge in all directions. 
The central alley is the number I. 
Linden alleys are an indispensable attribute of a Russian estate. In Spasskoe, many 200-year-old lindens, ash-trees, fir-trees, oaks and poplars, which saw Turgenev, have been preserved.
They are especially proud of the oak planted by Turgenev himself. He is well taken care of! I remember a few years ago he was very sick, they thought he would dry up. But he was saved, healed! 
Figured hedges around ancient trees 
All alleys and paths from the house lead to a picturesque pond. 
In summer, the park looks shady, and in spring it is unusually light and sunny, glades of yellow flowers are replaced by pink-violet with lungwort and violets. 
All the time of the walk we were accompanied by simply irrepressible, restless singing of birds.
The voices and songs are very different, such beautiful trills!
Probably, we also heard a mockingjay, laughed quite like a human.))
And living creatures meet. A lot of squirrels, they are not at all afraid of people. 
We met many houses for birds and for squirrels. 
You can also take a carriage ride in the park. 
We spent a lot of time in the estate, there is an amazing atmosphere of beauty and harmony, and even spring, and even the weather ... We walked from one object to another, sat on benches for a long time, admired the views.
Here you do not want to keep track of time, you want to enjoy the beauty and peace! 
From passkoye-Lutovinovo - the estate of the mother of the great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, now the state memorial and natural museum-reserve in the Mtsensk district of the Oryol region.
History of creation
The village of Spasskoye was named so because of the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior located here. IN late XVI century, Ivan the Terrible granted it to Ivan Lutovinov, who created a manor on this territory: its center was a two-story wooden house lined with bricks (with a library, a theater and choirs for musicians), flower beds were laid out in front of it, a stone gallery, a kitchen, a bathhouse stood nearby, barnyard, poultry yard, forge, carpentry outbuilding and mill, a number of other outbuildings, hospital, police outbuilding, laboratory. Having survived almost five centuries of history, today the estate is the State Memorial and Natural Museum-Reserve- unique monument culture, the only one in Russia memorial museum great Russian writer.
Museum-estate of I.S. Turgenev "Spasskoe-Lutovinovo" was created on October 22, 1922 in accordance with the resolution of the department of museums and the protection of monuments of art and antiquity of the People's Commissariat of Education and the legislative act of 1921 on the protection historical estates, natural monuments, parks and gardens. At the origins of the creation of the museum were A.V. Lunacharsky and V.Ya. Bryusov. A.M. Gorky, K.A. Fedin, I.A. Novikov, and the famous literary scholar M.V. Portuguese.
The Museum-Reserve of I.S. Turgenev "Spasskoye-Lutovinovo" is not only a memorial of the great Russian writer, not only a memory of people and events that somehow touched Spassky throughout his entire life. centuries of history, this is one of the few estates-monuments preserved in Russia, the Turgenev space preserved by our ancestors with great difficulty. Today it is a historically developed complex of manor buildings, which includes, in addition to the house-museum, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior and the family crypt of the Lutovinovs, an almshouse built at the expense of I.S. and N.S. Turgenev in 1872, as well as outbuildings - a stable, a carriage house, a harness room, a bathhouse and a cellar. Directly adjacent to the main manor house is the "outhouse of the exile", in which I.S. Turgenev lived during his exile in Spasskoye in 1852-1853.
Museum restoration
In 1939, in connection with the 120th anniversary of his birth, an outbuilding, an almshouse and a bathhouse, a stable and a carriage house were restored in the museum, memoirs of contemporaries of I.S. Turgenev, sketches and photographs of the estate, testimonies of old-timers, measurements of the surviving buildings and excavation of the foundations of destroyed buildings were made, projects for the restoration of the buildings of the reserve were drawn up, work began on clearing the park. During the years of the Great Patriotic War the buildings of the church, the Lutovinov family vault, the carriage house and the stables were badly damaged. The territory of the estate was pitted with dugouts, trenches, craters from bombs and shells, a pond with a broken dam dried up, the alleys of the park were littered with fallen trees. But already on June 16, 1944, the Turgenev Reserve was reopened to visitors. The territory of the estate was cleared of mines and shells, removed dead trees, dugouts and trenches are filled up; the birch alley leading to the pond was completely renewed, the dam of the Big Pond was repaired. In 1968-1976 was restored at home by I.S. Turgenev: authentic things of the writer, family heirlooms and preserved furniture formed the basis of the exposition of the house-museum.
Museum of I.S. Turgenev Spasskoye-Lutovinovo is located in the Mtsensk district of the Oryol region. It intertwines the history of literature and the beautiful nature of the Central Russian strip.
Spasskoe-Lutovinovo is named after Turgenev's maternal ancestors, who received these lands back in the time of Ivan the Terrible. The famous Russian writer spent his childhood in the estate and often lived there as an adult. Here he wrote many of his works and, according to him, this place was a source of inspiration and nowhere did he write as easily as here.
By visiting the museum-reserve you can enrich your knowledge about the writer's work, the life of that time and have a great rest surrounded by beautiful garden. For residents of Moscow and the central part of Russia, this is a great place for a weekend trip.
How to get to the I.S. Turgenev Spasskoe-Lutovinovo
Museum of I.S. Turgenev Spasskoe-Lutovinovo is located at a distance from Orel at a distance of 70 kilometers, from Tula at 142 kilometers. From Moscow, the path will be 312 kilometers. The optimal way by car is along the E-105 highway. At the time of this writing, the Moscow-Orel segment is in excellent condition.
Nearest locality from the estate is the city of Mtsensk is located 16 kilometers.
We drove from Orel and the journey to the estate was about an hour. The route laid out by Google navigator led directly to free parking museum. There is a cafe next to the parking lot, and the building where ticket office and a gift shop. 
The path from the parking lot to the entrance to the Spasskoe-Lutovinovo estate
There are several options for visiting the museum. You can take a ticket that gives you the right to walk around the estate or take a guided tour that includes a visit to the house.
We took tickets for the nearest and apparently the last tour of that day, which began at 17-00. The cost of two tickets was 500 rubles.
You can just walk around the park of the estate by buying admission ticket which costs 70 rubles. 
The first part of the tour takes place in the house, the second part in the park. The homestead was completely rebuilt in Soviet times after a fire and a long time of neglect. But the museum's exposition consists of 90 percent of the original exhibits that belonged to the writer. They were kept by the writer's relatives, and later they were nationalized by the Bolsheviks and ended up in the Oryol Museum. Ivan Sergeevich mentioned many things in his works. I really liked the large library consisting of many books in different languages, a fair share of which is devoted to travel, some are called a la "Book of Travels". Apparently, the writer loved to travel and knew a lot about them. For a long time he lived outside of Russia.
I liked the tour, the guide told about the writer and stories from his life. 
The second part of the tour takes place in the park and the first stop is near the oak personally planted by I.S. Turgenev
It is this oak that is mentioned in the lines from a letter from Ivan Sergeyevitch Turgenev to his friend when the writer was in France: “When you are in Spasskoye, bow from me to the house, garden, my young oak, bow to my homeland, which I will probably never see again.”
The Turgenev estate is located on a large landscaped area. At the entrance gate to the museum there is a church, open to the public, built by the writer's ancestors. Not far from it stands the manor's estate around which blooming flower beds and buildings of outbuildings are broken. The main area of the estate is a beautiful park with many alleys lined ancient trees. Several alleys intersect each other forming the Roman numeral XIX. At the opposite end of the park from the main entrance there is a large picturesque pond with a pier and wooden bridges on both sides. 
We decided to walk along it after the end of the tour. During the time we were in the house, the weather changed dramatically and met with rain, which turned into hail!
The walk took place in splendid isolation, we did not meet a single person in the park, which is not typical for such places. Apparently the second half of Monday and the unexpectedly swooping rain cloud contributed to the private atmosphere. I am sure that on weekends and good weather there will be much more people, but the park is large and there is enough space for everyone.
The strong-willed decision not to retreat to the car and see the park was rewarded with beautiful views of the park and its surroundings, when the sun came out and a rainbow appeared!
In the video below you can appreciate the beauty of this place. Watch videos better with sound and in HD quality.
Outside the territory of the estate also open great views decorated with blooming flowers, and this time a colorful rainbow appeared after the rain!
In the vicinity of the estate grows a lot of Lupins - a plant from the legume family that blooms so beautifully at the end of May. Initially, I thought it was lavender, because clusters of blue flowering plants reminiscent of the lavender fields of Provence so beloved by photographers.
Interestingly, before that I had not met this plant, although I often visited the neighboring regions of Moscow, Kaluga, Bryansk. Does this plant really not grow there or am I just unlucky to see it?
The pond on the estate is called Zakharov Pond, in honor of the writer's beloved and faithful servant. In good weather from May to October, you can go boating, either on your own or accompanied by a boatman. In the photo on the opposite bank you can see the pier. You can ride a horse-drawn carriage around the park.
Bridges across the streams flowing into the pond.
