The two-pedestal desk on display at the museum belonged to the Russian poet Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov.

The rectangular desk top is covered with red-colored cloth. The walnut frame of the top board is decorated with a carved pattern. Both pedestals have three drawers, each resting on four legs in the form of turned columns with carved surfaces. The top and base of each leg are decorated with square rosettes with cut corners, and the sides feature carved patterns. The back and front turned legs are connected in the middle by crosspieces, which are also decorated with rosettes in the center. Each pedestal is bordered with carved geometric patterns. All round the perimeter below the desk top there is a carved “entrelacs”. The side walls of the pedestal are decorated with horizontal parallel carved strips. There is a drawer between the pedestals, under the desk top.

The desk was made for Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov in the workshop of Nikolay Fyodorovich Stange in Saint Petersburg.

Initially, Stange’s workshop focused on producing bronzes and lighting fixtures. In the mid-1860s, he began to venture into a new field — the production of furniture.

From 1863, the Stange workshop became a supplier to the Imperial Court. The period between 1867–1874 was the most fruitful for the company. In addition to the Imperial family, the workshop fulfilled orders for furniture and lighting fixtures placed by the Grand Dukes. The workshop also took on different, sometimes purely practical projects. For example, Stange’s company repaired furniture for the palaces in Gatchina and Tsarskoye Selo and supplied furnishings for the Winter Palace. In 1868, the firm also made lighting fixtures, cabinets, doors, wall coverings, jambs, small oak plafonds in niches and oak parquet for the Library of the Anichkov Palace for Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich.

The desk was originally in the poet’s apartment in Saint Petersburg. After the death of Nikolay Alexeyevich, it was purchased from his widow Zinaida Nikolaevna by the poet’s brother Fyodor Alexeyevich Nekrasov and moved to the Karabikha estate. According to a photograph from 1904, the desk was located in the master’s study in the Manor’s House, from where it was removed after its nationalization in 1919. For a long time, the desk was in the Yaroslavl Museum of Local Lore until it was returned to Karabikha in 1947.