Visiting the Venevetinovs or Novozhivotinnoye's estate. Excursions and museums of the Voronezh region Venevitinov poet biography
1805 - 1827
Country: Russia
Venevitinov Dmitry Vladimirovich - poet. Born September 14, 1805, died March 15, 1827 Coming from an old noble family, Venevitinov grew up in the most favorable conditions, taking advantage of the caring care of an intelligent and educated mother. Of his mentors, Venevitinov was particularly influenced by the intelligent and enlightened French Alsatian Dorer, who familiarized him well with French and Roman literature. Venevitinov studied Greek with the Greek Bailo, the publisher of the Greek classics. Venevitinov got acquainted early with the ancient classical world; hence the graceful harmony of his mental structure, clearly reflected in the inseparable connection between his poetic inspiration and his philosophical thinking; contemporaries called him "a poet of thought". He also had the ability to paint and significant musical talent. He did not enter the students, but listened to the lectures of some university professors. He was especially interested in the courses of A.F. Merzlyakov, I.I. Davydov, M. G. Pavlov and Professor of Anatomy Loder. The last three tried to connect the teaching of their subject with the then dominant philosophical system of Schelling in the West and, undoubtedly, greatly contributed to the mental development of Venevitinov in the spirit of Schellingism. Merzlyakov had a beneficial effect on university youth with the public pedagogical talks he arranged; here Venevitinov soon attracted general attention with his clear and deep mind and remarkable dialectics.He showed these qualities in the circle of students, the center of which was N.M. Rozhalin. Young people were engaged in philosophical debates and read their own compositions on various abstract topics. In 1825 Venevitinov decided to go to the Moscow archives egy of foreign affairs. Easy service left a lot of free time. A rather numerous literary society was formed from the aforementioned circle, and five of its members constituted a more intimate secret "society of wisdom", with the aim of exclusively pursuing philosophy, mainly German; but it was closed by themselves, due to fears aroused by the event of December 14, to which their acquaintances and relatives turned out to be touchy. Among the small works read at the meetings of the society are Venevitinov's prose sketches: "Sculpture, Painting and Music", "Morning, Noon, Evening and Night", "Plato's Conversations with Alexander", representing (the last - even in the form itself) a successful imitation of Plato's dialogues, both in the development of thoughts and in poetic tone. The members of the society had a desire to have their own printed organ. At first it was supposed to publish an almanac (almanacs were then in vogue); but Pushkin, who arrived in Moscow in early September 1826, advised the circle to found a monthly magazine. Venevitinov, who was distantly related to Pushkin and already known to him from the article about the first song of "Eugene Onegin", outlined the program of the planned periodical, heading it: "A Few Thoughts on the Plan of the Journal." Soon, the publishing of the Moskovsky Vestnik was started, in the spirit of the Venevitin program, according to which the main task of the Russian periodical was “to create in our country scientific aesthetic criticism on the basis of German speculative philosophy and to inculcate in the public consciousness the conviction of the need to apply philosophical principles to the study of all epochs of sciences and arts. The journal has been published since the beginning of 1827, under the supervision of the collective editorial board and under the official responsibility of M.P. Pogodin. By this time, Venevitinov had already transferred to the service from Moscow to St. Petersburg, in the office of a foreign collegium. This was facilitated by the platonically adored Princess Zinaida Alexandrovna Volkonskaya Venevitinov. Leaving Moscow at the end of October, Venevitinov took with him a companion, at the request of the same Volkonskaya, the Frenchman Voshe, who had just escorted Princess E.I. to Siberia. Trubetskaya, who followed her Decembrist husband there. At the entrance to St. Petersburg, Venevitinov and Voshe were arrested due to the extreme suspicion of the police towards everyone who had even the slightest relation to the participants in the conspiracy of December 14th. The three-day arrest had a detrimental effect on Venevitinov: in addition to a heavy moral impression, staying in a damp and untidy room had a harmful effect on his already poor health. He missed Moscow, where his beloved family, Princess Volkonskaya, his comrades in the literary society and the jointly started journal, the concerns of which Venevitinova warmly expressed in his surviving letters to Pogodin and others, remained. Dissatisfaction with his position prompted him to think about leaving as soon as possible to serve in Persia. Before leaving Moscow, Venevitinov enthusiastically devoted himself to the study of German philosophers: Schelling, Fichte, Oken, as well as the works of Plato, which he read in the original (these studies are evidenced by a small work he performed for Princess Alexandra Trubetskoy: "Letter on Philosophy", remarkable for its Platonic harmonious presentation and impeccable clarity of thought). Venevitinov, apparently, devoted most of his time to poetic creativity. This can be seen both from the number of his generally few poems falling on the Petersburg period of his life, and from the perfection of form and depth of content achieved in them. In early March, returning lightly dressed from the ball, Venevitinov caught a bad cold, and soon he was gone. On his grave monument in the Simonov Monastery, in Moscow, his significant verse is carved: “How he knew life, how little he lived!” He knew life not from experience, but due to the fact that he was able to penetrate deeply into its inner meaning with his early ripened thought "Poet" is for Venevitinov the subject of a kind of cult, expressed in his best poems, both in sincerity of tone and in charm of form: "Poet", "Sacrifice", "Consolation", "I feel, it burns in me ... "," Poet and friend "and" Last poems ". His rhymed translation of the famous monologue "Faust in the Cave" is distinguished by an extraordinary grace of verse and expressive language; "Earthly Destiny" and "The Apotheosis of the Artist" are also excellently translated from Goethe. Apart from the above-mentioned translations, the number of poems by Venevitinov does not exceed 38. Those belonging to the first period of his work, that is, written before moving to St. Petersburg, do not differ in the impeccable form that those listed above represent, which in this respect can be compared with Pushkin's poems. But the poems of both periods are equally characterized by sincerity of feeling and lack of sophistication both in thoughts and in expressions. In some of them, a pessimistic mood affected, under the influence of which the novel in prose, which remained unfinished, was started. In general, however, Venevitinov's poetry is dominated by a bright view of life and faith in the fate of mankind. The contemplative-philosophical direction of Venevitinov's poetry makes many who wrote about him assume that he would soon leave poetry and indulge in the development of philosophy. A vivid imprint of the philosophical turn of thought lies on his remarkable critical articles, in which he was far ahead of his contemporaries with aesthetic understanding. In addition to the publication of "Works of D.V.V." (1829), the Complete Works of D.V. Venevitinov", edited by A.V. Pyatkovsky (St. Petersburg, 1882), with his own article about life, about the works of Venevitinov, and separately "Poems of Venevitinov" (1884), in the "Cheap Library". - See Barsukov “Life and Works of M.P. Pogodin” (vol. II, St. Petersburg, 1888); N. Kolupanov “I. A. Koshelev "(vol. I, part 2, St. Petersburg, 1889) and articles by Mikhail Venevitinov in the Historical Bulletin (vol. XVII, 1884) and in the Russian Archive (1885, I, pp. 313 - 31 ). I. Boldakov.
“Had Venevitinov lived for at least ten years more, he would have moved our literature forward for decades…”
N. G. Chernyshevsky
Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov(September 14 (26), 1805 - March 15 (27), 1827) - Russian poet, translator, prose writer.
Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov was born in Moscow. His father, retired ensign of the Semyonovsky regiment Vladimir Petrovich Venevitinov (1777-1814), came from a wealthy Voronezh noble family. Mother, Anna Nikolaevna, came from the princely family of Obolensky-Bely. Through her, Dmitry Venevitinov was distantly related (fourth cousin) with A. S. Pushkin.
Venevitinov received a classical home education, in 1822-1824. as a volunteer attended lectures at Moscow University. He was fond of not only history, philosophy and the theory of literature, but also mathematics and the natural sciences. Having passed the exams for the university course, in 1824 he entered the service of the Moscow Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs, but his main occupation was literature. By this time, he was already the author of several poems, mostly freely transcribing ancient and modern European authors. Venevitinov was one of the organizers of the Moscow Society of Philosophy, which aimed to study idealistic philosophy and romantic aesthetics.
In November 1826, Venevitinov moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, joining the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the entrance to St. Petersburg, the poet was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Decembrists' conspiracy. He spent three days under arrest in one of the guardhouses in St. Petersburg. Being away from relatives and friends oppressed the poet. In addition, Venevitinov caught a bad cold, which led to an early death on March 15 (27), 1827, apparently from severe pneumonia. The body was sent to Moscow. Venevitinov was buried on April 2, 1827 at the cemetery of the Simonov Monastery in Moscow. At the funeral were Pushkin, Mickiewicz and other friends of the poet.
In his literary activity, Venevitinov showed versatile talents and interests. His romantic poetry is full of philosophical motifs. Many poems are dedicated to the high purpose of poetry and the poet, the cult of friendship: "Poet" (1826), "Poet and friend" (1827). He dedicated poems to friends, close people, beloved Zinaida Volkonskaya: "To my goddess" (1826), "Elegy" (1827), "Testament" (1826).
Venevitinov bequeathed at the hour of his death to put a ring on his finger - a gift from Zinaida Volkonskaya. When he fell into oblivion, AS Khomyakov put the ring on his finger. In the 1930s, during the demolition of the Simonov Monastery, the body of D.V. Venevitinov was exhumed and reburied at the Novodevichy cemetery. During the exhumation, the ring was removed from the poet's finger and is now kept in the Literary Museum.
Venevitinov was not only a poet, but also a translator, prose writer, wrote literary critical articles, translated the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, J. V. Goethe and others. He was also known as a gifted artist, musician, and music critic.
The name of Dmitry Venevitinov is closely connected with our region. The Venevitinovs had possessions in the Voronezh province. As a child, Dmitry, together with his parents, stayed in the "family nest" - in Novozhivotinny. After the death of his father, the Venevitinov family stopped coming to the estate. But in August - September 1824, together with his younger brother Alexei, Dmitry Venevitinov visited Voronezh and his Voronezh estate. He lived in Novozhivotinnoye for about a month, often recalled his childhood, wrote letters to his mother and sister Sofya, and composed poetry. Now there is a monument of federal significance - the Museum-estate of D. V. Venevitinov.
In 1994, in the outskirts of the Kominternovsky district of Voronezh, a new street was formed - Venevitinskaya. In 2005, in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dmitry Venevitinov, a monument to the poet was opened on the territory of the Museum-estate of D. V. Venevitinov.
Works by D. V. Venevitinov
Venevitinov DV Complete works / DV Venevitinov; ed. A. P. Pyatkovsky. - St. Petersburg: Printing house of O. I. Bakst, 1862. - 264 p.
The complete works of the poet, published in 1862 in the St. Petersburg printing house of Bakst under the editorship of A.P. Pyatkovsky, also contain a portrait of the author, a facsimile and articles about his life and writings.
Venevitinov D.V.Poems / D. V. Venevitinov. - Moscow: Soviet Russia, 1982. - 174 p. - (Poetic Russia).
Venevitinov D.V.Poems. Poems. Dramas / D. V. Venevitinov. - Moscow: Fiction, 1976. - 128 p.
The poet's books include his selected works.
Venevitinov DV Poems // Anthology of Russian poetry. – URL: http://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Venevitinov/ .
Poets of Pushkin's time: selected poems. - Moscow; Leningrad: Detgiz, 1949. - 286 p. - (School library).
The collection includes selected poems by sixteen of the greatest poets of Pushkin's time, including Dmitry Venevitinov.
Russian poetry of the first halfXIX century. - Moscow: Slovo, 2001. - 765 p. - (Pushkin Library).
The book presents the work of fifty-six poets of various trends, including Dmitry Venevitinov (pp. 379–389).
Literature about the life and work of D. V. Venevitinov
Akinshin A. N. Voronezh nobility in persons and destinies: historical and genealogical essays with the application of the List of noble families of the Voronezh province / A. N. Akinshin, O. G. Lasunsky. – Ed. 2nd, revised. and additional - Voronezh: Center for the Spiritual Revival of the Chernozem Territory, 2009. - 432 p.
The book of Voronezh scientists presents biographies of the noble families of the Voronezh province, who lived on the territory of the region until 1917. The Venevitinovs and Stankeviches, the Raevskys and Tulinovs, the Potapovs and the Somovs… Poets and educators, manufacturers and military men. Among the illustrations, one can find drawings by the brother of the poet Dmitry Venevitinov, Alexei Vladimirovich, who captured views of the village of Novozhivotinnoye in the middle of the 19th century.
Budakov V. V. Poet-philosopher Dmitry Venevitinov / V. V. Budakov // Voronezh: Russian Provincial Journal. - Voronezh, 2003. - Special. issue : Day of Slavic Writing and Culture. – S. 118.
Budakov V. V. “It is too early to die, but to live ...” (Dmitry Venevitinov) / V. V. Budakov // Devotees of the Russian word / V. V. Budakov. - Voronezh, 2007. - S. 110-116.
The book "Ascetics of the Russian word" - lyrical essays about writers and poets, life and work related to the black earth region, the Central Russian strip. One of the essays is dedicated to Dmitry Venevitinov.
Venevitinov Dmitry Vladimirovich // Literary map of the Voronezh region. – URL: http://lk.vrnlib.ru/?p=persons&id=66 .
Dmitry Venevitinov. Estates of the Venevitinovs. The creative heritage of the poet / [intro. Art. E. G. Novichikhina]. - Voronezh: Center for the Spiritual Revival of the Chernozem Territory, 2010. - 215 p.
The name of the poet is closely connected with the Voronezh region: four estates of the Venevitinov family were located in Ramon - on the picturesque banks of the Don. The world of the noble estate was saved only in the village of Novozhivotinnoye. This book offers not only an acquaintance with biographical materials and the work of a remarkable poet, critic, philosopher. For the first time, the reader will be able to look into all four estates, learn about their history and modern life, walk through the halls of the house-museum of D. Venevitinov.
Zhikharev V. In the captivity of the "queen of muses and beauty": (Dmitry Venevitinov and Miniato Ricci) / V. Zhikharev // Rise. - Voronezh, 2012. - No. 12. - P. 218–223.
Vitaly Zhikharev's essay brings new details to the love story of the twenty-year-old Russian poet Dmitry Venevitinov for Zinaida Volkonskaya, who, in turn, was carried away by the Italian chamber singer Count Minato Ricci.
Lasunsky O. G. Venevitinov Dmitry Vladimirovich / O. G. Lasunsky // Voronezh Encyclopedia: [in 2 volumes] / [ch. ed. M. D. Karpachev]. - Voronezh, 2008. - T. 1. - P. 126.
Mordovchenko N. I. Venevitinov and poets of wisdom / N. I. Mordovchenko // History of Russian literature: in 10 volumes - Moscow; Leningrad, 1953. - V. 6: Literature of the 1820-1830s. – S. 448–459. – URL: http://feb-web.ru/feb/irl/il0/il6/il6-4482.htm .
An article on the website of the Fundamental Electronic Library (FEB) "Russian Literature and Folklore" tells about the literary and philosophical circle "Society of Philosophy" (1823-1825). Venevitinov took an active part in the organization and work of the circle. The members of the circle were engaged in the study of German idealistic philosophy.
Museum-estate of D. V. Venevitinov. – http://muzeinikitin.vzh.ru/muzej-usadba-d-venevitinova .
Museum-estate of D. V. Venevitinov // Literary map of the Voronezh region. – URL: http://lk.vrnlib.ru/?p=post&id=4 .
The museum-estate of D. V. Venevitinov, opened in 1994, is a monument of federal significance, one of the few noble estates of the 18th century that have survived in Russia. The museum is located in the village of Novozhivotinnoye, Ramonsky District, Voronezh Region. Its exposition includes the decoration of the halls of a noble noble estate of the 19th century and everything connected with the Venevitinov family. The museum includes a two-storey mansion (1760-1770), an outbuilding (1887), a park area with a pond. In 2005, a monument to the poet was unveiled on the estate.
Novichikhin E. Novozhivotinnoe / E. Novichikhina. - Voronezh: Central Black Earth Book Publishing House, 1994. - 114 p. - (Voronezh Land. Encyclopedia of cities and villages).
The book tells about a village in the Voronezh region, originating in the second half of the 17th century. The fate of the poet Dmitry Venevitinov is closely connected with the history of this village.
Poet and philosopher Dmitry Venevitinov // Origins. Ethnocultural features of the Voronezh region. - Voronezh, 2014. - S. 147–148.
An article from a collection that tells about the ethno-cultural features of our region, about the life and traditions of our ancestors, about people associated with the Voronezh land.
Udodov B. Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov / B. Udodov // Voronezh residents: famous biographies in the history of the region. - Voronezh, 2007. - S. 116-120.
Chernyshev M. A. “In the soul of an unsolved thought melting ...” / M. A.Chernyshev. - Saratov: Zavolzhye, 1992. - 280 p.
The book tells about the life and work of the famous poet of the XIX century Dmitry Venevitinov.
Another post expanding the "geography of presence", this time dedicated to the museum-estate of Dmitry Venevitinov, who is no less than the fourth cousin of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
The village of Novozhivotinnoye is located on the left bank of the Don River, 25 versts north of the provincial city of Voronezh. 
The Venevetinovs, who came from the Tula lands, settled in these parts in the first half of the 17th century, when in 1622 the Venevsky ataman Terenty was granted lands to the north of Voronezh, which included the village of Zhivotinnoye. 
In the second half of the 17th century, the ataman's grandson Lavrenty Gerasimovich Venevitinov and his son Anton acquired a thousand acres of land on the left bank of the Don, resettling peasants from the village of Zhivotinnoye there. The new settlement, accordingly, became known as Novozhivotinny, and the first mention of it dates back to 1678. 
In 1703, the wooden Archangel Church was moved from Starozhivotinnoye and re-consecrated - the new patrimony of the Venevetinovs became a village. 
The appearance of the estate began to take shape from the middle of the 18th century, when a park and a pond were laid out on the territory. In the years 1760-1770, a stone manor house with a mezzanine was built, subsequently rebuilt several times. The house underwent the first reconstruction at the beginning of the 19th century, the second - in the 1870s. 
By the beginning of the 19th century, the owners of the estate moved to Moscow, where in 1805 the future poet Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov was born. In Novozhivotinnoye, the Venvetinovs appeared only in the summer to relax on the Don, but childhood romantic impressions of life in the countryside were firmly embedded in the poet's memory. 
The return of Dmitry Venvetinov to the estate happened in 1824, when, after the death of his father, the poet's mother, far from economic affairs, Anna Ivanovna sent her son to deal with the complaints of the peasants. It is believed that this trip influenced the worldview of a nineteen-year-old youth and his attitude to life - in 1825 he wrote philosophical short stories about nature. 
The fate of the poet turned out to be tragic - in March 1827, before he reached the age of 22, he died of pneumonia, which he caught while running lightly dressed from a ball in the Lansky house to his outbuilding. 
After the revolution, the estate was nationalized. Before the war, a music school and an orphanage were successively located in it, and during the war years - a military unit. Then the estate fell into disrepair and collapsed, until in 1988 work began on its restoration. 
In 1994, the main house as a branch of the Voronezh Regional Literary Museum. Nikitina opened the doors to visitors. Relatively recently, in 2012, the reconstruction of the museum, which began two years earlier, was completed, the results of which we can now observe. 
On the "preservation of the spirit of the estate of the early XIX century" almost 60 million rubles were spent, but there is no smell of antiquity here, as they say. 
In the process of examining the exposition, one does not leave the feeling that all these equally inexpressive interiors... 
...numerous reproductions on white walls and seemingly foreign antique furniture exist as if by themselves. 
The only thing that attracted me was the layout of the estate occupying one of the halls on the first floor. 
Having quickly finished with the interiors, let's head back to the fresh air - to the park... 
...where the paths paved with Sobyanin's tiles lead us to the banks of the Don. 
On the shore, a rotunda gazebo has been recreated, which, presumably, is popular with local newlyweds.
Russian romantic poet, translator, prose writer and philosopher
Biography
Dmitry Venevitinov was born on September 14 (26), 1805 in Moscow, in an old and wealthy noble family, his distant relative (fourth cousin) was A. S. Pushkin. He received a classical education at home, which was led by his mother (Princess Anna Nikolaevna Obolenskaya), studied French, German, Latin and Greek. He became interested in German philosophy and romantic poetry. He listened to individual lectures at Moscow University, in particular the courses of A. F. Merzlyakov, I. I. Davydov, M. G. Pavlov and Loder. He participated in the meetings of the student literary circle of N. M. Rozhalin.
In 1825, Venevitinov entered the service of the Moscow Archives of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs (“archival youths” - this is how Pushkin ironically called the employees of this archive in his novel “Eugene Onegin”).
He organized, together with Prince V.F. Odoevsky, a secret philosophical "Society of Philosophy", which also included I.V. Kireevsky, A.I. Koshelev, V.P. Titov, N.A. Melgunov and others. Attended meetings of the circle, not being formally its members, A. S. Khomyakov, M. P. Pogodin and S. P. Shevyrev. The circle was engaged in the study of German idealistic philosophy - the works of F. Schelling, I. Kant, F. Schlegel and others.
Venevitinov took an active part in the publication of the magazine "Moscow Bulletin".
In November 1826, Venevitinov moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, joining the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the entrance to St. Petersburg, the poet was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the Decembrists' conspiracy. He spent three days under arrest, which aggravated his lung disease. After that, in March, returning lightly dressed from the ball, Venevitinov caught a bad cold.
The poet died on March 15 (27), 1827 in St. Petersburg, before reaching the age of 22. He was buried in the cemetery of the Simonov Monastery in Moscow. He bequeathed to put a ring on his finger at the hour of death - a gift from Zinaida Volkonskaya. When he fell into oblivion, the ring was put on his finger. But suddenly Venvetinov woke up and asked: “Are they going to marry me?” And died. A. Pushkin and A. Mitskevich were at the funeral. Reburied in the 1930s. at the Novodevichy cemetery.
Creation
In his literary activity, Venevitinov showed versatile talents and interests. He was not only a poet, but also a prose writer, wrote literary and programmatic and critical articles (his controversy with N. A. Polevoy about the 1st chapter of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" is known), translated the prose works of German authors, including Goethe and Hoffmann (E. A. Maimin. "Dmitry Venevitinov and his literary heritage." 1980).
Venevitinov wrote only about 50 poems. Many of them, especially later ones, are filled with deep philosophical meaning, which is a distinctive feature of the poet's lyrics.
The central theme of Venevitinov's last poems is the fate of the poet. In them, the cult of the romantic poet-chosen one, highly exalted above the crowd and everyday life, is noticeable:
A number of Venevitinov's poems of 1826-1827, written a few months before the poet's death ("Testament", "To my ring", "Poet and friend") can rightly be called prophetic. In them, the author seemed to foresee his early death:
Venevitinov was also known as a gifted artist, musician, and music critic. When a posthumous edition was being prepared, Vladimir Odoevsky suggested including not only poems, but also drawings and musical works: “I would like to publish them together with the works of my friend, who wonderfully combined all three arts.”
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The noble nest of the Venevitinovs with a stone manor house and a beautiful landscape park is considered one of the oldest surviving estates in the Voronezh region. The estate was founded and developed in the village of Novozhivotinnoye over several decades of the 18th century and belonged to representatives of the noble family of the Venevitinovs. It has been known in Voronezh since the 17th century, when its ancestor, "ataman of the Voronezh boyar children", Terenty Venevitinov received several villages near the newly founded Voronezh fortress for good service.
Manor history
The estate in Novozhivotinnoye gained wide popularity thanks to one of its owners, a distant relative of Pushkin, the poet and philosopher Dmitry Venevitinov, who spent part of his childhood in the Don expanses. The construction of the manor house, according to researchers, falls on the years 1760-70, at that time the poet's grandfather, Pyotr Venevitinov, lived in Novozhivotinnoye. The estate was built in the classical style and had two floors with a mezzanine, which has not survived to this day.
From April to August 1887, Ethel Voynich performed the functions of a governess at the Venevitinov estate. The writer, who became world famous thanks to her novel The Gadfly, taught the children of the Venevitinovs music and English.
It should be noted that the building of the estate has undergone many changes in 250 years, associated with repeated repairs - even under the owners, and with redevelopment during the years of Soviet power. After the revolution, the former estate was adapted first as a school, then as an orphanage, during the war years - as a military unit, which, of course, had a negative impact on the safety of individual parts of the building. Since 1994, after the restoration and improvement of the manor house, outbuilding, gates and park, the estate became a branch of the Voronezh Regional Literary Museum. In addition, the building is included in the list of objects of historical and architectural heritage of federal significance.
Excursions
In 2012, the museum-estate of Venevitinov was radically transformed: a large-scale restoration was carried out here, which, while preserving the interiors of the 19th century, made it possible to organize the exhibition space in a new way. Now the museum hosts regular thematic tours that tell about the country estate culture of Russia, the life and work of representatives of the Venevitinov family. The updated exposition includes very valuable exhibits, for example, 12 decrees of Peter I and the caftan of ataman Terenty Venevitinov.
