Ring of Abramtsevo
Abramtsevo is a property located at the north of Moscow, not far from Khotkovo, which became the center of the Mouvement Slavophile and the artistic activity in Russia of the 19th century.
The property belonged at the origin with the writer Serguei Aksakov, who invited there other writers and artists such as Nicolas Gogol. One discussed the means there of returning to a released national art of the Western influences. In 1870 Abramtsevo was bought by Savva Mamontov, an industrial rich person and patron whose family owed her fortune with the construction of the railroads and oils of Bakou.
During the years 1870 and 1880, Abramtsevo was a true artistic colony and the center of almost all the artistic life of Russia of the end of the 19th century. This colony of artists, whom one sometimes compares with the École of Bridge-Swallow-hole in France, endeavoured to find the spirit of the Russian medieval art in a manner that one can bring closer to the movement Arts and Crafts in Great Britain. Several workshops produced there pieces of furniture, ceramics, silk trade inspired of topics and images of traditional Russia.
Savva Mamontov invited artists like Ilya Repine, Fédor Chaliapine, Isaac Levitan, Elena and Vassily Polenov, Valentine Serov, Mikhail Vroubel, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov, Korovine, Mark Antokolski. Polenov and Vasnetsov collaborated in the construction of a picturesque church, which contains a Iconostase gilded of Repine and Nesterov and sculptures inspired of the folklore of Viktor Hartmann and Antokolsky. Towards the beginning of the 20th century, plays or operas taking for topic the Russian folklore, such as the Young lady of snows of Rimsky-Korsakov were put in scene at Abramtsevo by Constantin Stanislavski and others, in decorations signed of Vasnetsov, Vroubel, and other artists famous.
The property of Abramtsevo is opened today with the public. The principal house is typical architecture of the Russian average nobility of the end of the 18th century and Tchekhov would have been inspired some for the property by its part the Cherry orchard . Part of the house is devoted to the former Aksakov owner.
One sees there also a house of baths out of wood built like a traditional dwelling of old the Rus, and the “House on hen legs”, dwelling of the witch Baba Yaga, realization of Vasnetsov.
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