I. S. Ostroukhov House in Trubniki

The privately owned “Museum of Personal Taste”, famous throughout Moscow, was once located in a small wooden house of a post-fire building from the 1820s. Today, there is a scientific exposition department of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V. I. Dahl. A wooden house with a mezzanine on a stone base was built in 1822 for the collegiate assessment of Elizabeth Sontseva. The mansion changed its owners more than once: at various times it was owned by architect Alexander Martynov, the founder of the famous almshouse Ivan Barykov. At the end of the 19th century, the house with a mezzanine belonged to the representatives of a large merchant family, brothers Dmitry Petrovich and Peter Petrovich Botkin. The museum history of the mansion can be kept from 1889, when the daughter of the millionaire merchant Nadezhda Petrovna Botkina marries a landscape painter, friend Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, a collector Ilya Semenovich Ostroukhov. As a dowry, Petr Petrovich Botkin passes the house in Trubnikovsky Lane to his son-in-law. He turns the house into a famous home museum. In the collection of Ostroukhov are paintings by Levitan and Serov, Vrubel and Repin, Matisse and Degas, Renoir and Monet. The museum has a huge collection of Russian icons. Ilya Semenovich himself calls his collection the “Museum of Personal Taste. After the revolution, in 1818, the “Museum of Personal Taste” was nationalized, and the ex owner of the collection was appointed its lifelong custodian. For 11 years, until the death of Ilya Semenovich, the mansion was called the “Museum of Icon Painting and Painting named after I. Ostroukhov”, becoming a department of the State Tretyakov Gallery. The “Museum of Icon Painting and Painting named after I. Ostroukhov” was liquidated less than a month after the Ilya Semenovich's funeral. The collection was divided between large galleries. In 1979, it was decided to transfer the mansion in Trubnikovsky Lane to the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature named after V. I. Dahl. Restorers have tried to restore the building in the form in which it existed at the end of the XIX century. During the renovation, the layout and decoration elements were preserved. There was an exhibition dedicated to the history of Russian literature of the 20th century from 1984 to 1992. And in 2014, the museum received another name - the scientific and exposition department “House of I. S. Ostroukhov in Trubniki”. Large, including international, historical and literary exhibition projects are held here. Creative evenings of contemporary writers, musical concerts, classes for children, lectures and discussions, as well as scientific conferences on the history of literature and the modern literary process are held. And on the first floor of the mansion there is a museum bookstore “Ostroukhov” with an excellent selection of humanitarian literature.