The exhibition at the Ivan Pavlov Estate Museum recreates the atmosphere of an old house where the scientist was born and raised. This is a historical journey into the past, from an elegant 19th-century living room to the first collection of butterflies of the future Nobel Prize winner.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov described his family home as “a tiny house with a mezzanine and three windows.” A wooden estate on a quiet Ryazan street was built by the grandfather of the academician Pavlov. The scientist wrote the following, “I know from the stories that I was born in the house of my maternal grandfather. But the strange thing is that I seem to remember my first visit to that house where I passed all my childhood years up to adolescence.”
The household history of the Pavlov house is interesting from the point of view of historical and practical accuracy. The exhibition presents kitchen utensils and appliances of the past era: a coal samovar, a copper basin for making jam, a guillotine for crushing sugar, milk jugs, and an old coffee maker.
The residential part of the house reveals the personalities of the family members. In the room of the academician Pavlov’s father, who was a Ryazan priest, there are old icons and a lectern for holding services at home. In the room of the mother Varvara, who gave birth to ten children, there is a wicker cradle and items for needlework. Each of the children was passionate about their hobbies, in their rooms the visitors can see a chemical laboratory and stuffed forest animals.
The Pavlov house became a museum on March 6, 1946, but it still looks cozy and lived-in, as if the owners stepped out for just a minute.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
