After the invention of daguerreotype, Semyon Nikolaevich became one of the first Russian photographers. His children: both boys and girls helped him in this activity. They tried to capture their family, house, life on thin metal plates, mounted under glass, which were called ‘daguerreotypes’ after its inventor.

Korsakov’s estate was famous for its rich library. The latest publications in all fields of science and technology were prescribed on from abroad. The photographic darkroom was in a small hut at Tarusovo house. In the manor park there was a meadow of amusements with gymnastic shells. At home, children’s physical exercises followed their mental studies. Children of Korsakov’s put home performances, were fond of dramatic reading, cut out puppets for a puppet theater and issued a handwritten family magazine “Zemlyak” (Countryman).

Korsakov’s children acquired a brilliant home education. The boys chose the military career. The girls, perfect in painting, engaged in music, crafts, have become the guardians of home hearths.

The unique archive of Korsakov’s family and their family library in 1918 were nationalized and transferred from Tarusovo to the Rumyantsev Museum in Moscow. Soon there was a fire in the manor house and the house burned down.