The Alexander Gerasimov Estate Museum was founded on September 9, 1975, and opened its doors on March 15, 1977, as a branch of the Tambov Regional Art Gallery. The museum houses over 3,000 items, a significant part of them being the works of Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov, the People’s Artist of the USSR. The museum complex has preserved the appearance that was characteristic of an urban merchant’s estate of the late 19th century. The two-story brick house was built in 1886 by the artist’s father Mikhail Safronovich Gerasimov. There, Alexander Gerasimov spent his childhood and youth, he also lived in that house with his family after the revolution, between 1918 and 1925.
The estate courtyard has preserved its outbuildings: a coach house, a cellar, and a barn, modified in the 1930s to serve as a workshop (over a hundred famous Gerasimov’s works were created within its walls). There, the artists painted the famous landscape “Terrace Wet from the Rain”, which for many years was reproduced in Russian language textbooks. A path paved with cobblestones leads from the house to the workshop, located in the back of the courtyard. On the left is the exhibition hall, opened in 1981 to commemorate the painter’s 100th anniversary, which demonstrates works by Alexander Gerasimov, as well as houses traveling exhibitions.
The painstaking work, carried out by a team of researchers, conservators and curators, helped the Alexander Gerasimov Estate Museum to become the main center of realism among Russian towns.
The estate courtyard has preserved its outbuildings: a coach house, a cellar, and a barn, modified in the 1930s to serve as a workshop (over a hundred famous Gerasimov’s works were created within its walls). There, the artists painted the famous landscape “Terrace Wet from the Rain”, which for many years was reproduced in Russian language textbooks. A path paved with cobblestones leads from the house to the workshop, located in the back of the courtyard. On the left is the exhibition hall, opened in 1981 to commemorate the painter’s 100th anniversary, which demonstrates works by Alexander Gerasimov, as well as houses traveling exhibitions.
The painstaking work, carried out by a team of researchers, conservators and curators, helped the Alexander Gerasimov Estate Museum to become the main center of realism among Russian towns.
