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Walnut armchair

Creation period
the mid-19th century
Place of сreation
the Russian Empire
Dimensions
98x59x60 cm
Technique
oilcloth, wood, hair; carving, carpentry
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The museum collection includes an armchair made of walnut. The semi-upholstered armchair is covered with dark green oilcloth. The backrest is semi-oval and concave at the edges. The seat, armrests and legs are curved. The frame of the backrest and the space between the backrest and the seat are decorated with relief carving in the form of scrolls, bands and oak leaves. In the center of the frame is the face of a dog with its mouth open.

This armchair is one of the pieces of the furniture set that the poet Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov ordered specially to furnish his house in Karabikha.

According to the memoirs of Natalia Pavlovna Nekrasova, the poet’s daughter-in-law, the dining room looked as follows,

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Opposite the staircase was a small but cozy room, decorated only with oval wall panels depicting Nature Morte [still life in French], and a large life-size portrait of Catherine the Great in a wide gilded frame.

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In the middle of the room there was an oval table of ash wood, two sofas and armchairs of the same wood on either side, and corner tables at the east wall.

Nekrasov’s niece Elizaveta Fyodorovna Belyaeva, née Nekrasova, described the table set as follows,

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On the left side, in the corners, there were shaped corner tables, in the center there was a round ash wood table, on the left and right sides of the walls there were sofas with carved sable faces, upholstered with black oilcloth.

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In the dining room, two sofas and three armchairs with dog faces on the backrests had been preserved from the previous owners. The sofas and armchairs were upholstered in morocco. Perhaps, during the poet’s lifetime the sofas were re-upholstered with dark green oilcloth. In the 1880s–1890s the wooden parts of the armchairs were painted with dark paint.

The muzzles of dogs carved on the backrests of armchairs and sofa are a reminder of Nekrasov’s passion for hunting. Pedigreed hunting dogs were a source of pride for him. Even Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich asked to borrow the poet’s hounds for hunting. Nikolay Nekrasov himself gave preference to such breeds as the setter and pointer.

In 1919, after the nationalization of the estate, the armchair, as well as other items of the set, was handed over to the Yaroslavl Museum of Local Lore. It was returned to Karabikha in 1947, when the memorial museum was established.

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Walnut armchair
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Walnut armchair

Creation period
the mid-19th century
Place of сreation
the Russian Empire
Dimensions
98x59x60 cm
Technique
oilcloth, wood, hair; carving, carpentry
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