The museum collection includes a two-pedestal desk on four carved legs. Its rectangular desk top is covered with red cloth and decorated with a carved wooden balustrade and two wooden candle holders. Each pedestal has one drawer, decorated with wooden rosettes. Between the pedestals, under the desk top is a drawer.
In the early 20th century, the desk stood in the study of Natalia Pavlovna Nekrasova, the second wife of Fyodor Alexeyevich Nekrasov, the poet’s brother.
Fyodor Alexeyevich married his first wife, Sofya Ivanovna Miller in 1864, who died in 1870. In 1872, Fyodor Alexeyevich married a second time. His wife was Natalia Pavlovna Alexandrova, the younger sister of his children’s governess.
Nikolay Nekrasov wrote to their sister Anna
Butkevich about his brother’s second marriage:
