In 1883, Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was permitted to return to the European part of Russia: on 27 October, after many years spent in the Siberian exile, the writer arrived in Astrakhan. For three days, Chernyshevsky stayed at a hotel, then he rented an apartment in the Khachikov House in Pochtovaya Street, a typical town building of the second half of the 19th century.
The apartment was in the backyard behind the bank. Later, in a letter to his elder son Alexander, Nikolay Chernyshevsky wrote: ‘Your mother has rented the house of our landlord (Khachikov) that faces the street… the house is absolutely detached. It has 7 windows opening onto the street and many rooms…’.
In his letter of 2 November 1883 to Alexander Pypin, a literature scholar and academician, Mikhail Chernyshevsky wrote about his father’s first apartment in that house: “3 rooms, bare walls, two chairs, a sofa, beds and nothing else”.
In March 1884, the Chernyshevskys moved to another apartment, and before leaving for Saratov, they changed a few more apartments. In 1889, in his letter to Olga Sokratovna, Nikolay Chernyshevsky wrote that the Khachikov House had been repossessed for non-payment, and the new owner would probably redesign the building.
As from 1953 Pochtovaya Street is called Chernyshevsky Street. Nowadays, in one of the Khachikov houses the Astrakhan Museum of Culture is located: a branch of the Astrakhan State United Museum Reserve of History and Architecture. It was opened in 1978 as the N.G. Chernyshevsky Literature Museum.
The Collection of Photographs of the Memorial Estate of N.G. Chernyshevsky contains 8 photographs of the houses in Astrakhan where Nikolay Chernyshevsky lived in various periods of time. The earliest photos were made by the writer’s son Mikhail Chernyshevsky in 1910. Those are pictures of the house of merchant Khachikov in Pochtovaya Street, the Abkarov House on the Ditch between the Police and the Armenian foot bridges, the Pukhova House and the Karamyshev House where the last Astrakhan apartment of the writer was located.
Mikhail Chernyshevsky made an inscription on the reverse side of the photograph of the Khachikov House: ‘20 July 1910. Mikh. Chernyshevsky. Astrakhan. Pochtovaya Str. Khachikov’s two houses: in the first one (where the Bank is) there is the first apartment of N.G. Chernyshevsky in 1883, in the second one (the one-storeyed building) there is the second apartment’.
The apartment was in the backyard behind the bank. Later, in a letter to his elder son Alexander, Nikolay Chernyshevsky wrote: ‘Your mother has rented the house of our landlord (Khachikov) that faces the street… the house is absolutely detached. It has 7 windows opening onto the street and many rooms…’.
In his letter of 2 November 1883 to Alexander Pypin, a literature scholar and academician, Mikhail Chernyshevsky wrote about his father’s first apartment in that house: “3 rooms, bare walls, two chairs, a sofa, beds and nothing else”.
In March 1884, the Chernyshevskys moved to another apartment, and before leaving for Saratov, they changed a few more apartments. In 1889, in his letter to Olga Sokratovna, Nikolay Chernyshevsky wrote that the Khachikov House had been repossessed for non-payment, and the new owner would probably redesign the building.
As from 1953 Pochtovaya Street is called Chernyshevsky Street. Nowadays, in one of the Khachikov houses the Astrakhan Museum of Culture is located: a branch of the Astrakhan State United Museum Reserve of History and Architecture. It was opened in 1978 as the N.G. Chernyshevsky Literature Museum.
The Collection of Photographs of the Memorial Estate of N.G. Chernyshevsky contains 8 photographs of the houses in Astrakhan where Nikolay Chernyshevsky lived in various periods of time. The earliest photos were made by the writer’s son Mikhail Chernyshevsky in 1910. Those are pictures of the house of merchant Khachikov in Pochtovaya Street, the Abkarov House on the Ditch between the Police and the Armenian foot bridges, the Pukhova House and the Karamyshev House where the last Astrakhan apartment of the writer was located.
Mikhail Chernyshevsky made an inscription on the reverse side of the photograph of the Khachikov House: ‘20 July 1910. Mikh. Chernyshevsky. Astrakhan. Pochtovaya Str. Khachikov’s two houses: in the first one (where the Bank is) there is the first apartment of N.G. Chernyshevsky in 1883, in the second one (the one-storeyed building) there is the second apartment’.
