See you in the Steppe or over the Ural

One of the museum’s exhibitions is dedicated to the Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin and his visit to Orenburg in 1833. Alexander Pushkin was the first Russian scholar to receive permission from Emperor Nicholas I to research documents about the Peasants’ War of 1773–1775, led by Yemelyan Pugachev. It was very important for Pushkin that in Byordskaya Sloboda he was able to talk with Irina Afanasyevna Buntova, a Cossack woman who witnessed these events and remembered them well. Pushkin reflected her memories in “The History of Pugachev’s Rebellion” and “The Captain’s Daughter.” Pushkin traveled to Byordy with his old acquaintance Vladimir Ivanovich Dal who served in Orenburg as an official for special missions under the military governor. The atmosphere of the 1830s is conveyed thanks to the reconstructed part of a living room from a noble house of the first half of the 19th century.

Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.